Historiography of the douçaine

Well, its time to buckle down on the research papers. The 10-15 page paper for the music research class is in pretty good shape. It will only take some tweaking. It's just an overview of the douçaine and I doubt that it will have any chance of being published. Now I need to get busy on a 30-page historiography. I need to at least do an outline today. It will be interesting working with the etymology, as I have found 31 spellings so far for double reed instruments derived from the Latin word dulcis. Fun.