Gold and Iron: Semantic Change and Social Change in Chaucer's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Hughes, Geoffrey.
Gold and Iron: Semantic Change and Social Change in Chaucer's Prologue
- Published
- Standpunte 137 (1978): 1-11.
- Description
- Tallies various instances from GP where Chaucer "shows in his deployment of nonce-words, key-words, status-terms and moral terms, that character and language are inseparable, that words and values change as societies change, that the only true value attaches to virtue, which must be sought beyond the flux of words, since terms of value are particularly vulnerable to change in the hands of the ambitious."
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Language and Word Studies