Did Chaucer Read the Wycliffite Bible?
- Author / Editor
- Fehrman, Craig T.
Did Chaucer Read the Wycliffite Bible?
- Published
- ChauR 42 (2007): 111-38.
- Description
- Studying CT alongside early and late versions of the Wycliffite Bible reveals examples of Chaucer's nearly direct quotations from LV and of his sympathy with developments in translation theory from EV to LV, which favored more idiomatic renderings of the original Latin.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Language and Word Studies.