Table of Contents

The layers of glossing; the manuscripts; his early work in Middle English; his use of sources and external aids; his glosses - some successes and failures; some thoughts on his intentions. Appendices: the worksheet entries; his tremble.

Reviews

'At every stage, every care has been taken to establish details and to base conclusions on them which make this an authoritative book. The lexicographical information is of great interest. As a result, a reader's understanding is greatly enriched.'
E.G. STanley, Pembroke College, Oxford, Notes and Queries, September 1992
`... stimulating study ... This is in some ways a demanding book to read but one that repays careful attention.' P.R. Robinson, Medium AEvum
`Frazen is thorough, her research well-documented her argument supported in almost exhausting detail ... I am greatly impressed by the thoroughness and detail of her analysis ... Franzen's book is undeniably a work of thorough scholarship'
'Much that one had wanted to know has now been clarified by Christine Franzen in a dense and meticulous monograph'
Milton McC. Gatch, Union Theological Seminary, Albion, Summer 1993, Vol. 25, No. 2
'... careful and comprehensive study ...a brilliant piece of detective work ... In addition to the clear and persuasive arguments summarized above, Franzen provides descriptions of the manuscripts ... a list of the 176 most commonly gossed Old English words in three manuscripts, with glosses, frequencies, and references to the Middle English Dictionary or the Oxford English Dictionary;and indexes of the Old and Middle English words
discussed. These features add to the book's already considerable virtues those of a useful reference tool.'
Peter S. Baker, University of Virginia. Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies. April 1994
'Christine Franzen's remarkable study of the Worcester Tremulous hand is a singular book for a number of reasons. It is complex and highly technical study which, if it had been undertaken by a pedant, would have been exceedingly dull to all but a handful of diehard palaeographers. But it is far from pedantic or dull. Franzen writers clearly, and with great personal interest in her chosen work. ... an intriguing work on a technical subject that is highly
readable and enjoyable, as an academic "detective analysis" if nothing else. What is best about her book is that it is nicely organized.'
A N Q Vol 7 No 2 April '94