What Tongue Does Chaucer's Custance Speak? "Latyn Corrupt" Revisited.
- Author / Editor
- Sawyer, Daniel.
What Tongue Does Chaucer's Custance Speak? "Latyn Corrupt" Revisited.
- Published
- Medium Aevum 42 (2023): 283-96.
- Description
- Presents new evidence, particularly the Wycliffite Bible, and disagrees with J. A. Burrow that Custance's speech in MLT when she reaches Northumbria is a debased kind of Latin. Argues the speech is not a mercantile "lingua franca" and claims that "Latyn corrupt" would be "one of the Italian vernaculars of Chaucer's own day."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
Language and Word Studies