Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's by Peggy A. Knapp

Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's

Peggy A. Knapp

224 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

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This book argues that changes in English society and the English language are woven together, often in surprising ways, and investigates this claim by following eleven words from Chaucer's time to Shakespeare's. Middle English words like "corage, ...

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