Chaucer's 'Phislyas': A Problem in Paleography and Linguistics

Author / Editor
Ortego, Philip D.

Title
Chaucer's 'Phislyas': A Problem in Paleography and Linguistics

Published
Chaucer Review 9 (1974): 182-89.

Description
Surveys efforts to explain the meaning of "phislyas" (MLE 2.1189; here attributed to the Shipman), summarizing contextual concerns, manuscript variants, and several etymological hypotheses; agrees with those who treat it as a term related to medicine.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Shipman and His Tale