Chaucer as Herbalist

Author / Editor
Sudo, Jun.

Title
Chaucer as Herbalist

Published
Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Sachiho Tanaka (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 1988), pp. 25-39.

Description
Examines the words "drinke" (TC 2.651), "dwale" (RvT 4161), "pervynke" (Rom 1432), and "herber" (TC 2.1705) and passages in CYT, NPT, KnT, and MerT, maintaining that Chaucer displays ample knowledge of medieval herbal lore.

Alternative Title
Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Sachiho Tanaka.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.