Wlatsom and Abhomynable: Murder and Homicide in the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Vandelinde, Henry.

Title
Wlatsom and Abhomynable: Murder and Homicide in the Canterbury Tales

Published
Clues (Bowling Green, OH) 22.2: 167-76, 2001.

Description
In Chaucer's England, the legal term "homicide" ("deliberate infliction of death," justified or not) was distinct from "murder," which carried negative moral connotations but had no legal definition. In CT, Chaucer uses the terms precisely and suggestively.

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