Wlatsom and Abhomynable: Murder and Homicide in the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Vandelinde, Henry.
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.