'But algates therby was she understonde': Translating Custance in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Christine F.
'But algates therby was she understonde': Translating Custance in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- Yearbook of English Studies 36 (2006): 27-38.
- Description
- In MLT, Chaucer uses the case of Custance's Latin being understood by Northumbrians - an instance of xenoglossia, more characteristic of the saint's life genre - to focus on translation in various genres and to make Custance, "subtly active," an "apt figure of the translator him/herself."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.