Stratford atte Bowe and Paris

Author / Editor
Rothwell, W[illiam].

Title
Stratford atte Bowe and Paris

Published
Modern Language Review 80 (1985): 39-54.

Description
Despite earlier movements to standardize French, from which English borrowed heavily, the language of Chaucer's Prioress would have been nonstandard both in pronunciation and in morphology. Analysis of Anglo-Norman documents is needed to assess borrowings and the state of French.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.
Language and Word Studies.