Geoffrey Chaucer

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In the previous posting "Wife of Bath" I added under the French0English dictionary for "nouneau" the following;

   ^ Both adjective masculine, novellus is the diminutive of novus. See
      Walter Peterson, Latin Diminution of Adjectives. Classical Philosophy XI 426, 449 (1916; XI meaning volume 11)
      https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/358864
      ("19. Since youth and small size often go together, and all true diminutive suffixes consequently often mean 'young,' the addition of a diminutive suffix to an adjective which itself conveys the notion of youth is identical in principle with its addition to words meaning 'small,' and the same can be said of the emphasizing of the notion of weakness by a diminutive suffix, since weakness is often caused by small size or youth and intimately associated with these ideas. Of diminutives of adjectives meaning 'young' there are the following examples: juvenculus: juvencus 'young' * * * novellus: novus 'new, young' ")


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Jennifer Schuessler, Discovery by Chaucer Scholars Scrubs Stain from His Legacy; New York Times, Oct 15, 2022, at page A1.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/ ... er-rape-charge.html
https://artdaily.com/news/150813 ... cuments-suggest-not

Note: The NYT article is locked behind paywall. But reading the blog in (c) is all the same, and more to the point
(a)
(i) The article continued to page A6, whose title in that page was "A Chaucer May Be a Vindication."
(ii) The German surname Schüssler is "occupational name for a maker of dishes and bowls * * * from agent derivative of Middle High German schüssel(e) 'bowl[,] dish." Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.

(Modern) German-English dictionary:
* Schüssel (noun feminine): "1: bowl, platter"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sch%C3%BCssel

(b)
(i)
(A) Geoffrey Chaucer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer
( "(c 1340s – 1400) * * * best known for The Canterbury Tales. * * * He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey")
(B) Westminster Abbey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey
("Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey. * * * According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorney Island) in the seventh century, at the time of Mellitus, Bishop of London. Construction of the present church [which is Gothic style] began in 1245 on the orders of Henry III.  The church was originally part of a Catholic Benedictine abbey, which was dissolved in 1539 [by Henry VIII and turned into Anglican]. * * * The abbey was restored to the Benedictines by Mary I [elder sister of Elizabeth (who shared the same father but not mother); also known as Bloody Mary; Catholic] in 1556, then in 1559 made a royal peculiar—a church responsible directly to the sovereign—by [Anglican] Elizabeth I")
(ii)
(A) The Canterbury Tales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales
("a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. * * * The tales (mostly written in verse ['Verse in the uncountable (mass noun) sense refers to poetry in contrast to prose\: Wikipedia for 'verse'], although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral")
(B) The Canterbury Tales was "inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron." from the Web

The Decameron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron
(section 1 Title: "Decameron combines [Ancient] Greek [numeral] δέκα, [romanization:] déka ten and [noun feminine] ἡμέρα, hēméra day to mean 'ten-day [event]' ")
(iii)
(A) Canterbury Cathedral
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_Cathedral
("The shrine to St Thomas Becket was destroyed on the orders of Henry VIII and the relics lost. * * * In 1986, a new Martyrdom Altar was installed in the northwest transept, on the spot where Thomas Becket was slain, the first new altar in the cathedral for 448 years. Mounted on the wall above it, there is a metal sculpture by Truro sculptor Giles Blomfield depicting a cross flanked by two bloodstained swords which, together with the shadows they cast, represent the four knights who killed Becket")
(B) Thomas Becket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket
(1119 or 1120-1170; section 5 Assassination)


(c) Euan Roger and Sebastian Sobecki, Geoffrey Chaucer and Cecily Chaumpaigne: Rethinking the Record. National Archive (UK), Oct 12, 2022/
https://blog.nationalarchives.go ... hinking-the-record/
(i) Chancery and Supreme Court of Judicature: Close Rolls. National Archive (UK), undated (under the heading "Catalogue description" / Reference: C 54)
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3614
("Letters close, which were usually of an executive nature conveying orders and instructions, and, therefore of a private and personal nature, were issued folded and 'closed' by the application of the great seal. They were enrolled on the close rolls.")
(ii)
(A) Michaelmas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelmas
("is a Christian festival observed in some Western liturgical calendars on 29 September")
(B) Christmas (n; from Old English Cristes mæsse, literally, Christ's mass)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Christmas
(C) legal year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_year
(section 2 Europe, section 2.1 England)
(iii) Table of Contents of The Chaucer Review, vol 57, no 4 (2022). Project Muse, The Johns Hopkins University, undated
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48949
(The Chaucer Review gas the articles locked behind paywall, but not this website)
, where the Roger and Sobecki's article has three appendices.


(d) How to look for records of * * * Court of King's Bench records 1200-1702. National Archives (UK), undated
https://www.nationalarchives.gov ... -records-1200-1600/

Quote:

"There are frequently transcripts of proceedings in local courts, mainly of counties and hundreds, whose own records rarely survive.

"2. What was the Court of the King's Bench? [which is sectional heading]  The King's Bench was the most senior criminal court in England for most of it's existence, exercising supervisory jurisdiction over all inferior criminal courts. It [the name: King;s Bench] was based on the principle of pleas heard regularly and formally within the king's immediate purview even if not always in his actual presence.  The usual mechanism for bringing cases from local inferior courts to the King’s Bench was by means of a writ of certiorari (requiring the record to be sent to King's Bench for review) obtained by an unsuccessful defendant.

"3. An overview of the records[:] * * *
The records consist of various rolls and files which are either:
• Plea side – a case between two private parties
• Crown side – a case between the Crown and subject

They are rich in information but difficult to navigate because
• there are relatively few finding-aids to their contents (there are no indexes at all to the files, and very few to the rolls after 1250)
• some of them are not yet completely sorted or catalogued
• they are written in abbreviated Latin












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