*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 18

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 02regionalMAPPABLE REGION

late 16th c.

English literature

clue DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The labyrinth-guiding metaphor emerges.

COORDINATES STORED
YES
HONEST TO PLOT
YES
PLACEMENT MODE
regional
TIME PRECISION
century
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
1
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The prose label says late sixteenth century; the numeric layer conservatively exposes the whole century instead of inventing a narrower decade.

PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗
DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Oxford English Dictionary: clue, n.

    Documents the transition from a literal ball or guiding thread to a figurative guide, the semantic change represented by the English-literature stage.

    Historical senses: literal clew and figurative guideAUDIT SOURCE ↗