Chaucer in Early English Dictionaries: The Old-World Tradition in English Lexicography Down to 1721 and Speght's Chaucer Glossaries

Author / Editor
Kerling, Johan.

Title
Chaucer in Early English Dictionaries: The Old-World Tradition in English Lexicography Down to 1721 and Speght's Chaucer Glossaries

Published
Netherlands:
Boston: Leiden University Press;
Kluwer, 1980.

Physical Description
360 pp.

Series
Germanic and Anglistic Studies of the University of Leiden, no. 18.

Description
A study of Middle English, specifically Chaucer's English; lexicography; and obsolete words. Includes bibliography and indexes, as well as an appendix, "Chaucer, 'The Plowman's Tale', and Henry VIII."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Plowman and the Tale