'Tregetours' in 'The Franklin's Tale': Stage Magic and Siege Machines
- Author / Editor
- Sayers, William.
'Tregetours' in 'The Franklin's Tale': Stage Magic and Siege Machines
- Published
- Notes and Queries 254 (2009): 341-46.
- Description
- Glossed in "The Riverside Chaucer" as "illusionists, magicians," tregetours cause their subjects to experience "a fall from cognitive certitude to amazement and bafflement," a result that is captured in the "associational field" that includes both Middle English "tregetour" and "trepeget," a siege machine. The two terms arise, respectively, from Old French "tresjeter," "to throw over," and "trebuchier," "to cast down."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies