Roger Pearse April 15th, 2014 by Roger Pearse Over the last couple of months, I have become aware of another individual who, quietly, and without any fanfare, is making a real difference to ancient history online. Her name is Carole Raddato, and she writes the Following Hadrian blog. What she is doing is travelling all over the Roman Empire, and photographing its material remains. The results appear on Flickr here. She’s going into museums, and photographing exhibits, and placing them online. I became aware of her work, while working on the Mithras site. Again and again I would look for some artefact in some museum and then find … Miss Raddato had visited that museum and made a collection of photographs, all now freely online. The path she is following – that of the Emperor Hadrian in his travels about the empire – is taking her to the major sites and repositories of the ancient and modern world. A lot of people put holiday photos online. We are all in your debt, Madam. April 14th, 2014 by Roger Pearse
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REED Anglo-Latin Wordbook a, ab prep with abl 1. by, by means of CH36/21m, etc; EK23/33, etc; EL16/9, etc; LI341/28, etc; WL78/24, etc; 2. in a particular direction, on WL219/25; a dextris on the right EK204/15, etc; a sinistris on the left EK204/18, etc; 3. from, out of (expressing separation or release) CH46/321, etc; EK26/8, etc; EL3/9, etc; IC43/26, etc; LI762/13, etc; WL247/15, etc; 4. from (a source or point of origin) CH717/23, etc; EK734/7, etc; EL22/16, etc; IC652/15, etc; WL3/6, etc; 5. from (with verbs of asking or the like) CH616/21; EL230/2; 6. from (a point in time) CH65/18, etc; EK731/15, etc; EL16/30, etc; IC479/8; LI316/14, etc; ab antiquo of old EK324/19, etc; EL139/3--4; IC13/28; LI316/9; WL218/4; in correlation with 'in' a tempore in tempus from time to time CH119/30-1, etc; 7. abbacia, -e n f abbey, religious house under the authority of an abbot or abbess LI342/11; abbathia SH159/19, etc abbatissa, -e n f abbess, head of a house of nuns OX3/7, etc Abendonia see Abundonia ac see atque
Modern Medieval Pathfinders This guide is designed for anyone who is looking for the origin of words and/or phrases, also called etymology (these terms will be used interchangeably in this pathfinder). Both print-based and Web-based sources are included. Internet Sources | Searching for Etymology | Print Resources Internet Sources In general, web sites on word and phrase origins are good, but not comprehensive: most of them are question services of a sort, and the answers are posted on the site. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable From the 1894 work of the same name; this is extensively cross-referenced, and excellent for phrases which have their roots in literature or mythology. The Phrase Finder Use this site to find English phrases and sayings related to a particular word, learn the meaning of a phrase, or determine the origin of a phrase. Searching for Etymology Print Resources The Oxford English Dictionary 2nd edition: Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG) The Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) was compiled with historical sociolinguistics in mind. The original concept was to test how methods created by sociolinguists studying present-day languages could be applied to historical data. As the corpus yielded promising results, the research team has found many important links between language change and social variables. Some of these findings are reported in Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg (2003), Laitinen (2007), Nevala (2004), Nurmi (1999), and Palander-Collin (1999). The application of sociolinguistic methods is made possible by an extensive database containing background information about letter writers. This database is currently being extended to cover information on letter recipients as well. The Corpus of Early English Correspondence is these days a cover term for a family of corpora. Since 1998 the corpus has also been extended to cover a longer time period, but also given further substance to the original timespan.
The Ruminate Psychology Dictionary - Free Online Psychology Dictionary DANTE | A lexical database for English The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) The Historical Thesaurus of English is the first historical thesaurus to be compiled for any of the world's languages. It includes almost the entire recorded vocabulary of English from Old English to the modern period, taken from the Oxford English Dictionary and dictionaries of Old English. The distinctive, semantically-structured hierarchy of the HTE data allows scholars access to material in a uniquely flexible manner, making it an invaluable resource to historians and linguists in particular. The project was completed in 2008 and published as the Historical Thesaurus of the OED by Oxford University Press in 2009. Funding sources: British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), The Carnegie Trust, The University of Glasgow, The Leverhulme Trust Content types created: Dataset/structured data, Text Software tools used: Microsoft Access, MySQL, PHP, dbase, ingres, Apache Source material used: English vocabulary from Old English (c700 A.D.) to the present. Open Access