A Glossarial Concordance to the "Riverside Chaucer"
- Author / Editor
- Benson, Larry D.
A Glossarial Concordance to the "Riverside Chaucer"
- Published
- Hamden, Conn.: Garland Press, 1993.
- Physical Description
- 2 vols; 1,384 pp.
- Series
- Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, no. 1699.
- Description
- A complete concordance to Benson's "Riverside Chaucer," excluding only titles, glosses, implicits, and explicits. Includes brief definitions of words and references to definitions in the OED and MED.
- Volume 1 describes the principles of organization and usage and includes the main concordance.
- Volume 2 adds a supplementary concordance for the B and C fragments of Rom, the "Supplementary Propositions to the Astrolabe," and two lyrics, "Compl d'Am" and "Bal Compl." Volume 2 also includes spelling indexes for both concordances, and index of Modern English equivalents, and ranked lists of high-frequency spellings and words.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference.