Innovative Language in Chaucer's 'Boece': The Extension of English for the Exposition of Philosophy
- Author / Editor
- Donner, Morton.
Innovative Language in Chaucer's 'Boece': The Extension of English for the Exposition of Philosophy
- Published
- Mediaevalia 9 (1986, for 1983): 125-44.
- Description
- Chaucer was not an inept translator in Bo, as some contend, but an innovator who expanded the vocabulary of English ideological writing by some 500 constructions, anglicizing new Latin and Romance terms and extending the meanings of existing English and Romance loan words to express the philosophical nuances of Boethius's "Consolatione philosophiae."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Boece.
- Language and Word Studies.