Assessment
The Auchinleck manuscript is not well known outside of scholarly circles, yet it is one of the most important English documents we have from the Middle Ages. Within its folios, it tracks not only the literature of the day, reflecting the tastes of the people in the days of Chaucer's birth and how that literature was beginning to break from the Church, but also the development of a language as part of a national self image. It speaks to us of the independence of spirit with which the English people wanted to identify themselves as separate from their French cousins by claiming their own language in a very fundamental expression, in their literature.
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