Words and Dictionaries: 'OED,' 'MED,' and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Brewer, Charlotte.

Title
Words and Dictionaries: 'OED,' 'MED,' and Chaucer

Published
Charlotte Brewer and Barry Windeatt, eds. Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013), pp. 215-61.

Description
Analyzes the history of the OED's medieval portion, and emphasizes how Chaucer's "linguistic innovativeness" is shaped by the "substance of OED and MED quotations and definitions." Includes extensive appendix of OED's record of vocabulary in BD.

Alternative Title
Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Book of the Duchess