Two Chaucer Items

Author / Editor
Magoun, Francis P.,Jr.

Title
Two Chaucer Items

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 78 (1977): 46.

Description
"Townes end" translates, literally, as "the town's end," a concept that has lost its meaning in our modern society of expanding cities. Chaucer's "estres" has a much broader meaning than merely "the ins and outs of a building." Virtually the entire interior of the building is included in Chaucer's definition.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.