Chauntecleer's "Small Latin" and the Meaning of "Confusio" in the "Nun's Priest's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- D'Agata D'Ottavi, Stefania.
Chauntecleer's "Small Latin" and the Meaning of "Confusio" in the "Nun's Priest's Tale."
- Published
- Medieval Translator / Traduire au Moyen Age 16 (2017): 345-55.
- Description
- Argues that when Chauntecleer "purposely mistranslates" the proverb about women being man's "confusio" (NPT, 7.3163-65), he puns on "the two possible connotations of the word . . . and mischievously discard[s] the negative one."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Language and Word Studies