This paper is an attempt to describe and explain the multiple contexts and their contributions to the rise of ambivalence as well as the multiple implications of swete in Chaucer's Prioress’s Tale, one of the tales belonging to Fragment VII in The Canterbury Tales.
Swete was found extended in seven stages from taste to acoustic to abstract senses as regards the martyrdom of a child.
An examination of sweetness due to “sugar” is worth special mention because of its rare importance in the late fourteenth century.
swete の文脈と意味 ―Chaucerの「尼僧院長の話」の場合―
swete の文脈と意味 ―Chaucerの「尼僧院長の話」の場合―
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