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    The Wife of Bath’s ‘sweet because by Rigg, A G

    Published in Notes and queries (01-09-2012)
    “…To a Latinist one of the most surprising utterances of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath, in a career of memorable sayings, is her self-satisfied claim. No one…”
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    Sub Rosa: A Confidential Note by Rigg, A G

    Published in Notes and queries (01-09-2011)
    “…The earliest date in the Oxford English Dictionary for the phrase sub rosa 'in confidence, secretly' (sub 12) is 1654 from Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon…”
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    JOSEPH OF EXETER'S PAGAN GODS AGAIN by RIGG, A. G.

    Published in Medium aevum (01-01-2001)
    “…Rigg discusses the function of the pagan gods in Joseph of Exeter's "Ylias." Rigg believes that Joseph is not consistent in his treatment of the gods, and Rigg…”
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    THE TORTOISE AND THE SNAIL: A LEXICAL SHELLGAME by RIGG, A. G.

    Published in Medium aevum (01-01-2008)
    “…All these words mean 'shield-toad': pade, padde ate the ME for a toad. [...] toad with a shield', a fair approximation of a tortoise - the head of an amphibian…”
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    CALCHAS, RENEGADE AND TRAITOR: DARES AND JOSEPH OF EXETER by Rigg, A.G

    Published in Notes and queries (01-06-1998)
    “…Rigg examines the the character Calchas who appears in both Chaucer's and Boccaccio's accounts of the tragedy of Troy. Dares Phrygius purportedly offers a…”
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    John of Bridlington's Prophecy: A New Look by Rigg, A. G.

    Published in Speculum (01-07-1988)
    “…The political prophecy ascribed to John of Bridlington (died 1379) consists of twenty-nine poems, each about twenty to thirty lines long in rhyming hexameters;…”
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    SERLO OF WILTON: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES by RIGG, A. G.

    Published in Medium aevum (01-01-1996)
    “…Riggs presents a brief biographical sketch of the Latin poet Serlo of Wilton and corrects some errors contained in previous biographical articles…”
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    Radioimmunoassay of serum parathyrin: comparison of five commercial kits by Gorog, R H, Hakim, M K, Thompson, N W, Rigg, G A, McCann, D S

    Published in Clinical chemistry (Baltimore, Md.) (01-01-1982)
    “…We compared serum parathyrin radioimmunoassay data obtained with five commercially available kits for normal subjects, patients on dialysis, and patients with…”
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    Propaganda of the Hundred Years War: Poems on the Battles of Crecy and Durham (1346): A Critical Edition by Rigg, A. G.

    Published in Traditio (1999)
    “…The two poems edited here celebrate the English victories in 1346 over France (Crecy) and Scotland (Durham) in the early part of the Hundred Years War…”
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    Sub Rosa: A Confidential Note by Rigg, A G

    Published in Notes and queries (01-01-2011)
    “…Rigg examines the etymology of the phrase sub rosa 'in confidence, secretly.' The earliest date for the phrase, according to the Oxford English Dictionary is…”
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    The tortoise and the snail: a lexical shellgame by Rigg, A G

    Published in Medium aevum (01-01-2008)
    “…In his second fable, the poet Avianus tells the story of a tortoise which tired of its slowness and asked an eagle to carry it into the air in return for some…”
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    The Lament of the Friars of the Sack by Rigg, A. G.

    Published in Speculum (01-01-1980)
    “…On 17 July 1274 the Second Council of Lyons, as one of its final acts, published a decree (Religionum diversitatem nimiam) enforcing an earlier decision of the…”
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    Solomon and Marcolf. (Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin, 1.) by Rigg, A. G.

    Published in Speculum (01-04-2010)
    “…Rigg reviews Solomon and Marcolf translated by Jan M. Ziolkowski…”
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    THE RED BOOK OF OSSORY by RIGG, A. G.

    Published in Medium aevum (01-01-1977)
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