A Chaucer glossary

Author(s)

• Davis, Norman

Bibliographic Information

A Chaucer glossary

compiled by Norman Davis ... [et al.]

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1979

• : hard
• : pbk

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hard ISBN 9780198111689

Description

This Glossary, designed as a practical aid to the reading of Chaucer, is intended to be serviceable with any of the widely read editions. Its primary aim is to explain the meanings of words and phrases used by Chaucer in ways which are unfamiliar in modern English. Words used as they are today are not included, but many now in common use do appear, as they had different connotations in Chaucer's time. This concise working tool will be valuable to all Middle English scholars.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780198111719

Description

This Glossary, designed as a practical aid to the reading of Chaucer, is intended to be serviceable with any of the widely read editions. Its primary aim is to explain the meanings of words and phrases used by Chaucer in ways which are unfamiliar in modern English. Words used as they are today are not included, but many now in common use do appear, as they had different connotations in Chaucer's time. This concise working tool will be valuable to all Middle English scholars.

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• NCID: BA01381956
• ISBN:
  • 0198111681
  • 9780198111719
• LCCN: 78040245
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford,New York ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 185 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR1941
  • DC : 821/.1
  • NDC8 : 931
  • NDLC : KS72
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Language -- Glossaries, etc.
  • LCSH : English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.