medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I like Niermeyer's Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus. Available in Brill
reprint. Certainly DuCange is the gold standard-available more or less on
line (cf. med. religion archives for discussion) but I think long out of
print. Niermeyer says 'dwelling' FWIW. Best, Sharon
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Subject: [M-R] Dictionary of mediaeval Latin
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> Would anyone be able to recommend to me a dictionary of mediaeval Latin?
> My
> classical Latin dictionary is no use for this, as you will know better
> than
> I... I don't want the equivalent of the OED, just a handbook kind of
> thing...
>
> And, in the meantime, can anyone say why 'mansa' would be translated as
> 'manor' rather than 'dwelling'? It is in an English document which may
> be tenth
> century, or thirteenth. Depends whether it was forged or not. The
> translation is modern.
>
> Susan
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