Comments on: Creative anachronism resources

Creative anachronism resources

misteraitch — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:51:38 -0800

Greg Lindahl presents scans and transcriptions of several early modern texts at his website: for example, there are partly-searchable facsmilies of John Florio's New World of Words, an Italian-English dictionary published in 1611, and, from the same year, Randle Cotgrave's Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. Also, there are manuals on swordsmanship, dance, cookery, brewing and needlework.

By: hairyeyeball

hairyeyeball — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 03:07:07 -0800

Critique: too useful, not controversial enough for Metafilter! I am joking. Thank you, I love this kind of thing. It's exciting to think that scholars will someday be able to share high-res facsimiles of all such materials in the world. It's like that ad: "We have all the manuscripts from all the great libraries in the world, available all the time to everybody." Herr Lachmann in heaven is beaming down on us.

By: misteraitch

misteraitch — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 03:44:02 -0800

I suppose I could bring it down a notch by adding that Florio's dictionary contains the earliest-known definition including the word 'fucke'...

By: iconomy

iconomy — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:27:26 -0800

I suppose I could bring it down a notch by adding that Florio's dictionary contains the earliest-known definition including the word 'fucke'... Well now, that's more like it! No, really, these are wonderful links, misteraitch. I'm really enjoying the last bunch, especially the cookery and the swordsmanship manuals. I love it when people have nice, generous scans online - ones that we can actually see. You have a penchant for finding great scans of wonderful old things.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:41:01 -0800

Great post, misteraitch.

By: taz

taz — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:16:12 -0800

I've only begun to scratch the surface of all this, and I'm fairly in awe. Right now I'm reading "The Devil and Eugénie", which is hilarious. I'm also always a little entranced by food history - but Viking Foods? How cool is that? And just in case one ever needs to prepare a feast at which are kings, queens, dukes, duchesses, counts, countesses, princes, princesses, marquis, marquises, barons, baronesses and lords of lower estate, and nobles also a great number, this will be invaluable. This happened to me just last weekend, and I ended up serving tuna casserole. If only you had posted this earlier!

By: homunculus

homunculus — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:32:58 -0800

For more manuals on swordsmanship, see this thread.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:21:45 -0800

Mille gramercè -- le báscio le máni! (As Florio would have me say.)