Middle English Dictionary Now Free

By Kristina DeVoe on February 26, 2007 12:23 PM | | Comments (0)
The Middle English Dictionary (MED) is now available freely.

Below are snippets from the press release... "This book was 75 years in the making at the University of Michigan, has more than 15,000 pages and takes up nearly four feet of shelf space.

And now what has been called the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America and the most important single project in current English historical lexicography is off the bookshelf and freely available in an online version. […]

By converting the contents of the Middle English Dictionary into an enormous database, the dictionary has been made searchable in ways impossible in a printed document of its size. Medievalists, English language scholars and the curious can now access the dictionary free of charge."

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Kristina De Voe
English & Communications Librarian
Temple University Libraries