'Your ensaumple and your mirour': Hoccleve's Amplification of the Imagery and Intimacy of Henry Suso's 'Ars moriendi'
- Author / Editor
- Rozenski, Steven Jr.
'Your ensaumple and your mirour': Hoccleve's Amplification of the Imagery and Intimacy of Henry Suso's 'Ars moriendi'
- Published
- Parergon 25.2 (2008): 1-16.
- Description
- Addresses word choice in Thomas Hoccleve's English translation of Henry Suso's "Ars moriendi," a Latin text. Chaucer's use of the word "similitude" shows that it had entered the English language; however, Hoccleve translates both imago" and "similitudo" as "image."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies