Acknowledgements ............................................. viii
Conventions ..................................................... x
1 Introduction ................................................. I
2 The beginnings of the academy tradition: the Vocabolario
degli Accademici della Crusca ................................ 9
3 The making of the Dictionnaire de l'Academie francoise, and
its seventeenth-century rivals .............................. 28
4 The Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise from its
publication to the end of the eighteenth century ............ 51
5 The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft and its offshoots in
Germany and Denmark from the 1640s to the mid eighteenth
century ..................................................... 73
6 The academy tradition from the seventeenth century to 1750:
England, Brandenburg/Prussia, and Spain ..................... 99
7 Samuel Johnson and Johann Christoph Adelung ................ 121
8 The continuing academy tradition from 1751 to 1800: the
United Provinces, Russia, Portugal, Denmark, and Sweden .... 144
9 Afterword: the year 1800 as a turning point ................ 167
Notes .........................................................
Bibliography .................................................. 224
Index ......................................................... 251
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