Uses of Names in Medieval Literature.

Author / Editor
Hanning, Robert W.

Title
Uses of Names in Medieval Literature.

Published
Names 16 (1968): 325-38.

Description
Comments on the fittingness and suggestiveness of a number of proper names in CT--Eglyntine, Absolon, Alisoun, Philostratus, January, May, Justinus, Placebo, and Cecilia--as part of a survey of the literary uses of names and naming in medieval Latin and vernacular literatures, with attention to Isidore of Seville, Geoffrey of Monmouth, "Beowulf," Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, and others.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Prioress and Her Tale
Miller and His Tale
Knight and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale