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Article: Love, Sex, and Marriage: A Historical Thesaurus.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2001
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2001 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Julie Coleman, Love, Sex, and Marriage: A Historical Thesaurus (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999), xvii + 599 pp. ISBN 090-420-0433-9. $74.50.
Julie Coleman's inventory of the lexical domains of love, sex, and marriage from Old English to the present day presents a detailed picture of the varying assumptions, practices, and preoccupations which have figured, both diachronically and synchronically, within these related spheres of linguistic usage. Taking her data from the OED, the Thesaurus of Old English, as well as the ongoing Dictionary of Old English, and the Historical Thesaurus project based at Glasgow, together with a wide range of other sources (including an abundant array of ...
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