'Quoniam,' 'Wife of Bath's Prologue' D.608
- Author / Editor
- Marchand, James W.
'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.