Forms of Standardization in Terms for Middle English Lyrics in the Fourteenth Century

Author / Editor
Boffey, Julia.

Title
Forms of Standardization in Terms for Middle English Lyrics in the Fourteenth Century

Published
Ursula Schaefer, ed. The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 61-70.

Description
Analyzes the terms - "song," "dite," "tretyse," etc. - used for short poems in Middle English, including terms in Chaucer's works.

Alternative Title
Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England.

Chaucer Subjects
Lyrics and Short Poems.