The phylogeny of The Canterbury Tales

Adrian C. Barbrook, Christopher J. Howe (), Norman Blake and Peter Robinson
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Adrian C. Barbrook: University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road
Christopher J. Howe: University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road
Norman Blake: Humanities Research Institute, Arts Tower, University of Sheffield
Peter Robinson: Gateway House, De Montfort University

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6696, 839-839

Abstract: Abstract Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales survives in about 80 different manuscript versions1. We have used the techniques of evolutionary biology to produce what is, in effect, a phylogenetic tree showing the relationships between 58 extant fifteenth-century manuscripts of “The Wife of Bath's Prologue” from The Canterbury Tales. We found that many of the manuscripts fall into separate groups sharing distinct ancestors.

Date: 1998
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