Joyce Boro's research while affiliated with Université de Montréal and other places

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This essay discusses the many possible neologisms coined by Lord Berners (c.1467–1533) in his romance Castell of Love which are not recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary. Copious examples of Berners' linguistic inventiveness are recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary; however, this essay argues that he ought to be recognised for many addit...
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Few printed copies, and only one manuscript, of the work of John Bourchier, Lord Berners, now survive. In "Lord Berners and His Books: A New Survey," Joyce Boro considers new evidence about his career, from the romances Huon and Arthur to Froissart's Chronycles to the Castell of Love and The Golden Boke. Berners was one of the first to translate Sp...