The Concept of the Proverb in Middle English

Author / Editor
Louis, Cameron.

Title
The Concept of the Proverb in Middle English

Published
Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship 14 (1997): 173-85.

Description
The first English citations for the word "proverb" come from Chaucer's works, in which the word appears twenty-six times. Chaucer uses the word primarily in its modern and most common sense of "traditional folk sayings"; however, he also uses it with less common meanings in works such as WBP and Buk.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.