Chaucer and Stratford atte Bowe

Author / Editor
Rothwell, W[illiam].

Title
Chaucer and Stratford atte Bowe

Published
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 74 (1992): 3-28.

Description
Examines thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Anglo-French, noting that Chaucer was steeped in an Anglo-French environment. This very Anglicized French--a second language of culture used to keep records--was the French Chaucer knew best, and his lexis is usually traceable to it. Rothwell reviews Anglo-French derivations in GP that have senses not found in dictionaries of medieval French.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.