The Origins of the Word “Martingale”
This short note reviews and details various senses of the word “martingale,” with their respective etymologies, in mathematics, gambling, technology, and vernacular language.
On Some Etymologies of English Words
THESE notes deal with the non-Germanic, for the most part with the Romanic, element in Prof. Skeat's Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, ed. 4,1910 (S.D.). I have taken this dictionary as my startingpoint, because in this marvellous compendium of etymological research it must be allowed that, generally speaking, we may find the latest word that scholars have to say on the derivation of English words.
Gender and History in Medieval English Romance and Chronicle
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. This reading of canonical texts of medieval English literature - Sir Gawain and the Green Night and Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale - alongside Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae and other Anglo-Norman and English chronicles offers a broader context for reading the romance narratives and re-evaluates romance conventions in light of the genealogical priorities of these chronicles. By arguing that maternity is featured as a position of power, Gender and History in Medieval English Romance and Chronicle adds to our understanding of women and sovereignty, and the ways gender and authority were rhetorically linked to medieval texts.