Chaucer's Latinity
- Author / Editor
- Twomey, Michael W.
Chaucer's Latinity
- Published
- Hans Sauer and Renate Bauer, eds. "Beowulf" and Beyond. Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, no. 18 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 205-11.
- Description
- Scrutinizes Chaucer's use of Latin, demonstrating that his intratextual and extratextual Latin terms, phrases, and sentences are "formulas" and "quotations," not his own inventions. Twomey briefly surveys the development of Anglo-Latin and its pronunciation in relation to English.
- Contributor
- Sauer, Hans, ed.
- Bauer, renate, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.