⁸ The form was popular well into the late Middle Ages. See, for example, Christine de Pisan’s Epistle of Othea, which appeared in an English translation by Stephen Scrope in the middle of the fifteenth century: Stephen Scrope, trans., The Epistle of Othea, ed. Curt F. Bühler, EETS 264 (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970).

⁹ D.W. Robertson, A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives, 3^rd paperback ed. (1962; rpt., Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1973). Robertson’s views were challenged by ‘new critical’ scholars such as E. Talbot Donaldson, Derek Pearsall, and Alfred David. Recently, some critics concerned with medieval religious culture may be seen as returning, at least in part, to a modified ‘Robertsonianism.’