John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist: A Pioneer in Vern...
Stein, Gabriele![John Palsgrave as Renaissance Linguist: A Pioneer in Vernacular Language Description](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/226/22675609/CHSBZCOP0322675609.jpg)
When Henry VIII charged John Palsgrave with teaching his sister French, there were no dictionaries or grammars of either French or English. In Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse, a vast work of over 1, 000 pages, this brilliant priest and linguist, with a dramatist's eye for contemporary life and an ear for colloquial idiom, provided the first bilingual dictionary and contrastive grammar of the two languages. Professor Stein presents a de...