'L'Areine au Mer' in Gower's Mirour de l'Omme.

Author/Editor
Toynbee, Paget.

Title
'L'Areine au Mer' in Gower's Mirour de l'Omme.

Published
Toynbee, Paget. "'L'Areine au Mer' in Gower's Mirour de l'Omme." Athenaeum, No. 3838 (May, 1901): 632-33.

Review
Speculates that Gower's word came from Old French "Araigne" (Lat. "Aranea"), and that the source of the story in which the word appears is probably Ambrose or Brunetto Latini. [RFY1981].

Date
1901

Gower Subjects
Sourcs, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Language and Word Studies
Mirour de l'Omme (Speculum Meditantis)