Chaucerian Vernaculars

Author / Editor
Butterfield, Ardis.

Title
Chaucerian Vernaculars

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 25-51.

Description
Considers the relations among French, Anglo-French, and English in the linguistic and cultural conditions of Chaucer's time. Calls for a new sensitivity to translation as process, proposes more subtle awareness of interdependent etymologies (e.g., "frank" and "fraunchise"), and encourages a more sensitive array of source studies. Butterfield explores uses of "forein" in Bo; the diplomatic and poetic functions of envoy in Chaucer's five Boethian ballades; Criseyde's second letter in TC as diplomatic exchange; and ManT as a "quasi-envoy."

Alternative Title
Biennial Chaucer Lecture, The New Chaucer Society, Sixteenth International Congress, 17-22 July 2008, Swansea University.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Boece
Troilus and Criseyde
Manciple and His Tale