Between Proverbs and Lyrics: Customization Practices in Late Medieval English Moral Verse

Author / Editor
Wicker, Helen E.

Title
Between Proverbs and Lyrics: Customization Practices in Late Medieval English Moral Verse

Published
Criticism 59 (2010): 3-24.

Description
Examines how "some popular moral lyrics based upon traditional proverbs were modified and reworked" through manuscript transmission in late medieval England, commenting on materials found in the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library MS Ff.i.6)--which includes stanzas from TC--and various other contexts

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion