A Comparative Study of Philosophical Terms in the Alfredian and Chaucerian 'Boethius'
- Author / Editor
- Fischer, Olga.
A Comparative Study of Philosophical Terms in the Alfredian and Chaucerian 'Boethius'
- Published
- Neophilologus 63 (1979): 622-39.
- Description
- Comparison of the philosophical items translated by Alfred and Chaucer from the Latin "Boethius" shows that it can in no way be maintained that all the new loan words used after the Norman Conquest were needed to fill linguistic or cultural gaps in OE. After the Conquest words were borrowed which in most cases ousted already existent words; the lexical resources of OE were more than adequate to deal with Latin philosophical terms.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Boece.
- Language and Word Studies.