"Hende": A Handy Middle English Adjective.

Author / Editor
D’Anca, Christene.

Title
"Hende": A Handy Middle English Adjective.

Published
Early Middle English 4 (2022): 87-95.

Description
Clarifies the "nuanced semantic versatility" of "hende" in romances and fabliaux, with particular attention to MilT and "Dame Sirith," showing how various connotations obtain in differing contexts, and suggesting that editors "might apply distinct glosses to each of the eleven instances of the word applied to Nicholas" in MilT, "including a blend of positive, negative, physical, conceptual, and inverse meanings."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Miller and His Tale