Chaucerian Vernaculars
- Author / Editor
- Butterfield, Ardis.
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