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Notes
- ^ Skeat, W.W., The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899, Vol. I p. ix.
- ^ Skeat, op. cit., pp. xi-xii.
- ^ Skeat, op. cit., p. xvii.
- ^ Chaucer Life Records, p.24
- ^ Power, Eileen (1988), Medieval English Nunneries, C. 1275 to 1535, Biblo & Tannen Publishers, pp. 19, ISBN 0819601403, http://books.google.com/books?id=1ll6BuF4-kgC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=%22elizabeth+chaucy%22&source=web&ots=5B-HcUko6Z&sig=7dLlijAW1j4-_PdB5lA4EFZ-eSQ, retrieved 2007-12-19
- ^ Coulton, G. G. (2006), Chaucer and His England, Kessinger Publishing, pp. 74, http://books.google.com/books?id=tgP7qB4Br-4C&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=%22elizabeth+chaucy%22&source=web&ots=iLFZpmcvwF&sig=B39ACboh618EWIWQMRrbcvNyhRE, retrieved 2007-12-19
- ^ Hopper, p. viii He may actually have met Petrarch, and his reading of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio provided him with subject matter as well as inspiration for later writings.
- ^ Henry Morley, English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature (London: Cassell & Co., 1890), Vol. V. p. 106.
- ^ Corrine J. Saunders, A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Blackwell 2006), p. 19
- ^ Morley, Vol. 5, p. 245.
- ^ Ward, 109.
- ^ Morley, Vol. V, pp. 247-248.
- ^ Simon Singh: The Code Book, page 27. Fourth Estate, 1999
- ^ C.B. McCully and J.J. Anderson, English Historical Metrics, Cambridge UP 1996, p. 97.
- ^ Marchette Gaylord Chute, Geoffrey Chaucer of England E.P. Dutton 1946, p. 89.
- ^ Edwin Winfield Bowen, Questions at Issue in our English Speech, NY: Broadway Publishing, 1909, p. 147
- ^ "From The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern". The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Stephen Greenblatt. 8th ed. Vol. C. New York, London: Norton, 2006. 2132-33. pg. 2132
- ^ Original e-text available online at the University of Virginia website, trans. Wikipedia.
- ^ Thomas Hoccleve,The Regiment of Princes, TEAMS website, Rochester University
- ^ As noted by Carolyn Collette in 'Fifteenth Century Chaucer', an essay published in the book A Companion to Chaucer ISBN 0631235906
- ^ 'Chawcer undoubtedly did excellently in his Troilus and Creseid: of whome trulie I knowe not whether to mervaile more, either that hee in that mistie time could see so clearly, or that wee in this cleare age, goe so stumblingly after him.' The text can be found here
- ^ Benson, Larry, The Riverside Chaucer (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987), p. 1118.
- ^ Potter, Russell A., "Chaucer and the Authority of Language: The Politics and Poetics of the Vernacular in Late Medieval England", Assays VI (Carnegie-Mellon Press, 1991), p. 91.
- ^ A Leaf from The Canterbury Tales. Westminster, England: William Caxton, [1478]
- ^ The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: To Which are Added an Essay on his Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Together with Notes and a Glossary by the late Thomas Tyrwhitt. Second Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1798. 2 Volumes.
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