Some Disputed Chaucerian Terminology
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, D. W.,Jr.
Some Disputed Chaucerian Terminology
- Published
- Speculum 52 (1977): 571-81.
- Description
- In addition to etymologically undetermined words in Chaucer and to words whose ironic use obscures their true meaning, Chaucer's portrayal of characters (e.g., Reeve, Plowman, Yeoman, the widow of NPT, Griselda, and Symkyn in RvT) reveals that he was not "class-conscious" but rather disinterested in judging the morality and social status of bourgeois and peasantry. More historical documentation of the words used to describe them will reveal even more.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Background and General Criticism.