Spelling and Tradition in Fifteenth-Century Copies of Gower's Confessio Amantis
- Author / Editor
- Smith, J. J.
Spelling and Tradition in Fifteenth-Century Copies of Gower's Confessio Amantis
- Published
- J.J. Smith, ed. The English of Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays by M.L. Samuels and J.J. Smith (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988), pp. 96-113.
- Description
- Working from an "archetypal" corpus of Gower's spelling forms,Smith explores the continuity and dissolution of these forms in manuscript tradition, as well as the relation of the corpus to the progress of Standard Written English and to practice in manuscripts of PardT.
- Alternative Title
- English of Chaucer and His Contemporaries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.