Dancing Descriptions: Choreographing Middle English Romance.

Author / Editor
Morrison, Clinton Ervin, Jr.

Title
Dancing Descriptions: Choreographing Middle English Romance.

Physical Description
Ph.D. dissertation (Ohio State University, 2023). Abstract available at http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1681770955665872 (accessed August 19, 2025). Full text embargoed until May 8, 2028.

Description
Explores "how late-fourteenth and fifteenth-century [English] poets use dance to experiment and play with descriptions of motion." Includes discussion of Anel as well as Osbern Bokenham's "Legend of Holy Women," Thomas Chestre's "Sir Launfal," John Lydgate's "Troy Book" and "Siege of Thebes," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."

Chaucer Subjects
Anelida and Arcite