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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (ODMA) is a four-volume dictionary of the Middle Ages published by Oxford University Press.It contains over 5,000 entries concerning European history and culture from AD 500 to 1500 as well as topics related to the Byzantine Empire, Islamic history, and medieval Asia. [1]
The earliest entry for a capitalized "Dark Ages" in the Oxford English Dictionary is a reference in Henry Thomas Buckle's History of Civilization in England in 1857. [14] Medieval artistic illustration of the spherical Earth in a 14th-century copy of L'Image du monde (c. 1246)
Giovanni de' Marignolli, known as John of Marignolli (fl. 1338–53), was a notable 14th-century Catholic European traveller to medieval China and India. [63] [64] John de Marignolli's recollections of Eastern travel (1338–1353). In Cathay and the way thither: being a collection of medieval notices of China (1913–1916), [65] Volume II ...
The sources used to identify relevant translations include the following. Journals. American journal of Semitic languages and literatures. [1] [2] [3] An academic journal covering research on the ancient and medieval civilizations of the Near East, including archaeology, art, history, literature, linguistics, religion, law, and science.
In 1913, Robert Whitwell, a prolific contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, [1] petitioned the British Academy to use the imminent International Congress of Historical Studies to propose a replacement for the standard dictionary of medieval Latin, Du Cange's Glossarium (1678). [2]
Murder rate in medieval Oxford said to be 50 times higher than in 21st century English cities
The Oxford Classical Dictionary [1] [2] (OCD), which covers both Greek and Latin authors and texts. Either Liddell & Scott [3] (LSJ) or the Diccionario Griego-Español [4] (DGE) for Greek authors and texts, combined with either the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae [5] (TLL) or the Oxford Latin Dictionary [6] (OLD) for Latin authors and texts.
The preferred form in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is medieval. At the entry for "Mediaeval", the dictionary states "see Medieval" (6th edition) There seems no grounds for suggesting therefore that the preferred British or Commonwealth English form would include the letter A.--A Y Arktos 05:53, 29 October 2005 (UTC)