The Title "Sir."
- Author / Editor
- Burrow, J. A.
The Title "Sir."
- Published
- Essays on Medieval Literature (Oxford: Clarendon, 1984), pp. 69-78.
- Description
- Documents that the honorific "sir" plus a "knight’s name" occurs twelve times in Th and "not once elsewhere" in Chaucer's works, suggesting that, confined to a "burlesque context" and similar to historical French practice, this usage should be "understood as a coterie joke.”
- Alternative Title
- Essays on Medieval Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas
Language and Word Studies