This book presents--through a series of nine high quality essays by international scholars--the beginnings of the lexicographic tradition and the appearance of the first mono- and multilingual dictionaries in various language areas across the world, paying particular attention to their dependence on glosses and glossaries. The contributions analyze, on the basis of significant case studies, how dictionaries first emerged in a wide spectrum of cultures, ranging from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, from Medieval Britain to 15th-century Poland. In this way, the book highlights both similarit.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• FROM GLOSSES TO DICTIONARIES? AN INTRODUCTION CHIARA BENATI AND CLAUDIA HANDL
• FROM GREEK CLASSICAL TEXTS TO THE FIRST DICTIONARIES: THE BIRTH OF MODERN LEXICOGRAPHY
• ETYMOLOGY IN ANCIENT GREEK AND BYZANTINE LEXICA: THE CASE OF TERMS RELATED TO THE DIONYSIAC CULT SIMONA GEORGESCU
• NEW INSIGHTS ON THE LEXICON AND DIALOGIC STRUCTURE OF BILINGUAL GREEKiLATIN DIALOGUES FROM THE
• THE RELEVANCE OF OLD ENGLISH GLOSSES AND GLOSSARIES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PATRIZIA LENDINARA
• THE DREAM OF OSBERN PINNOCK AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF MEDIEVAL LEXICOGRAPHY JOHN CONSIDINE
• EXPLANATORY AND ETYMOLOGICAL GLOSSES IN THE
• WHICH DICTIONARY IS BEAUTIFUL, AFFLUENT AND CONCISE AT THE SAME TIME?
• FROM GLOSSES TO LEXICONS, OR