Chaucer und die Sprache der Wissenschaften

摘要

The study of the medieval sciences and their technical vocabulary has been considered essential to an adquate understanding of Chaucer's works ever since the nineteenth century. But any attempt of evaluating Chaudcer's scientific vocabulary is confronted with several major difficulties. The well-known fact that the Norman Conquest caused the breakdown of an established literary standard and eventually led to the the dominance of French and the suppression of ht enative vernacular as a means of instruciton and formal education up to the middle of the fourteenth century is equally responsible for the comparative lateness of Middle English literature on the artes.