'Compilatio' and the Wife of Bath: Latin Backgrounds, Ricardian Texts
- Author / Editor
- Hanna, Ralph,III.
'Compilatio' and the Wife of Bath: Latin Backgrounds, Ricardian Texts
- Published
- A. J. Minnis, ed. Latin and Venacular Studies in Late-Medieval Texts and Manuscripts. York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, University of York, Centre for Medieval Studies, vol. 1. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Wolfeboro: Boydell & Brewer, 1989), p. 1-11.
- Series
- York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, no. 1.
- Description
- Considers WBP as a compilation, "pieced together of verbatim translation" from a fuller text by Jerome. WBP represents "Englished" Latin, cut free from "control and indoctrination" of a closed Latin tradition and thus "seditious and dangerous," subject to "free use and abuse," as the Wife takes liberties with the source.
- Contributor
- Minnis, A. J.,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Latin and Vernacular Studies in Late-Medieval Texts and Manuscripts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.