Latin and Affect

Author / Editor
Furrow, Melissa M.

Title
Latin and Affect

Published
M. Teresa Tavormina and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 29-41.

Description
By exploring the uses of Latin quotations in the works of Langland and Chaucer, Furrow indicates late-Middle English readers' facility with Latin.
Langland "drew deeply on the potential poetic power in familiar Latin biblical texts," while in Chaucer's CT Latin "always occurs with some taint of suspicion or ridicule attached to it," especially in GP, SumT, PardP, and PrT.

Alternative Title
The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Canterbury Tales--General.