About this project

This project is supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI Grant Number: 20K13063 and 24K16093). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this dictionary are those of the compiler’s and do not necessarily reflect the views of the compiler’s institution, JSPS or MEXT.

The first phase of this dictionary project is devoted to the inclusion of all adjectives used in two of Chaucer’s poetic masterpieces, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales.

This dictionary abundantly features the editor’s original analyses and discoveries; at the same time, it reports the findings of previous scholarship to ensure informative and objective results for readers. A list of references is appended below:

Texts

Anne, Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (eds.) (1995). The Middle English Breton Lays. Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications.

Benson, Larry D. (ed.) (1987). The Riverside Chaucer,3rded. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Bennett, J. A. W. and G. V. Smithers (eds.) (1968). Early Middle English Verse and Prose. Oxford: Clarendon.

Burnley, David and Alison Wiggins (eds.) (2003). The Auchinleck manuscript. 10 July 2017, http://auchinleck.nls.uk/. 

MacAulay, G. C. (ed.) (1901). The Complete Works of John Gower. Oxford: Clarendon.

Schmidt, A. V. C. (ed.) (1978). The Vision of Piers Plowman. New York: E. P. Dutton & amp.

Tolkien, J. R. R., E. V. Gordon and Norman Davis (eds.) (1967). Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Traversa, Vincenzo. (ed.) (2002). Giovanni Boccaccio, THESEID OF THE NUPTIALS OF EMILIA (TESEIDA DELLE NOZZE DI EMILIA). New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.

Translations

Fang, Chong. (trans.) (1956). Troilus and Criseyde. Shanghai: Xinwenyi Chubanshe.

Griffin, Nathaniel Edward and Arthur Beckwith Myrick (1929). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Sasamoto, Hisayuki. (trans.) (2012). Troilus and Criseyde / Anelida and Arcite. Tokyo: Eihosha.

Windeatt, Barry. (trans.) (1998) Troilus and Criseyde. New York: Oxford University Press.

Dictionaries, glossaries and notes

Baugh, Albert C. (ed.) (1963) Chaucer’s Major Poetry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

Benson, Larry D. (1993) A Glossarial Concordance to the Riverside Chaucer, Vol. 1. New York & London: Garland.

Davis, Norman, Douglas Gray, Patricia Ingham and Anne Wallace-Hadrill (1979) A Chaucer Glossary. Oxford: Clarendon.

Donaldson, E. T. (ed.) (1975) Chaucer’s Poetry AN ANTHOLOGY FOR THE MODERN READER. 2nd ed. Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company.

Fisher, John H. (ed.) (1989) The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer. 2nd ed. Orlando: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers.

The Middle English Dictionary Online. The University of Michigan Press, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary.

The Oxford English Dictionary Online. Oxford University Press, www.oed.com/.

Windeatt, Barry. (ed.) (2003) Troilus and Criseyde. London: Penguin Books.

Other references

McCall, John, P. (1961) ‘Chaucer’s May 3.’ Modern Language Notes, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 201-05.

Root, Robert Kilburn. (1926) Book of Troilus and Criseyde. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Whiting B. J. and H. W. Whiting (1968) Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly Before 1500. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.