Taboo-Words in Fifteenth-Century English
- Author / Editor
- Ross, Thomas W.
Taboo-Words in Fifteenth-Century English
- Published
- Robert F. Yeager, ed. Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984), pp. 137-60.
- Description
- Latin-English glosses from BL MS Add. 37075 and other hitherto unpublished sources throw light on attitudes toward words for sex, body parts, and body functions as used by Chaucer and Scottish Chaucerians.
- Alternative Title
- Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.