'Quoniam,' 'Wife of Bath's Prologue' D.608

Author / Editor
Marchand, James W.

Title
'Quoniam,' 'Wife of Bath's Prologue' D.608

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 100: 43-49, 1999.

Description
Chaucer's punning use of "quoniam" in WBP was not the first time this word was used as a sexual euphemism. Giraldus Cambriensis, Matheolus, Juan Ruiz, and the author of the "Roman de Flamenca" used this euphemism in their writings.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.