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The history and economics informed outlook of her analysis gives a broader interest to the book, making it an essential contribution to the study of the transmission of technical knowledge and its language in medieval Europe. By incorporating multiple level of analysis, the book serves a broad community of scholars, including linguists, historians of medieval commerce, and specialists of the English and Italian wool trade. * Alice Martignoni, Annali d'italianistica * The Cantelowe Accounts stand as the earliestevidence of such language use, bridging the gap between London and Tuscany. Beyondlinguistics, these accounts yield econo * José Miguel Alcolado Carnicero, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies *

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Megan Tiddeman studied French and Italian at the University of St Andrews and completed her PhD in Historical Linguistics at Aberystwyth University, under the supervision of the late Professor David Trotter. Her thesis examined language contact in late medieval trade documents between Italian dialects and both Anglo-Norman and Middle English. She has worked as a PDRA with the Anglo-Norman Dictionary at Aberystwyth University, and as a Research Fellow on two projects led by Professor Louise Sylvester at the University of Westminster: Technical Language and Semantic Shift in Middle English and The Semantics of Word Borrowing in Late Medieval English. She has published on medieval Anglo-Italian contact, as well as on Middle English's lexical and semantic development.

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