Chaucer's ARMEE: Its French Ancestors and Its English Posterity

Author / Editor
Kuhn, Sherman M.

Title
Chaucer's ARMEE: Its French Ancestors and Its English Posterity

Published
Wolf-Dietrich Bald and Horst Weinstock, eds. Medieval Studies Conference Aachen 1983 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1984), pp. 85-102.

Description
Since the noun "armee" or a variant appears in the "best" and earliest Chaucer manuscripts and was used in Old French and Middle English, "armee" (rather than "aryve") is probably the word Chaucer intended in GP 60.

Alternative Title
Medieval Studies Conference Aachen 1983.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.