Taboo-Words in Fifteenth-Century English

Author / Editor
Ross, Thomas W.

Title
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Latin-English glosses from BL MS Add. 37075 and other hitherto unpublished sources throw light on attitudes toward words for sex, body parts, and body functions as used by Chaucer and Scottish Chaucerians.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.