The familiar enemy : Chaucer, language, and nation in the Hundred Years War / Ardis Butterfield.

Author/creator Butterfield, Ardis
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxxx, 444 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subjects
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500. --History and criticism.
French literature--To 1500. --History and criticism.
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500. --French influences.
French literature--To 1500. --English influences.
Nationalism and literature--Great Britain. --History. --To 1500.
Nationalism and literature--France. --History. --To 1500.

Contents Nation and language. Pre-nation and post-nation ; Origins and language ; A common language? -- Exchanging terms : war and peace. Fighting talk ; Exchanging terms ; Trading languages ; Lingua franca : the international language of love -- Vernacular subjects. The English subject ; Mother tongues : English and French in fifteenth-century England ; Betrayal and nation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [395]-427) and index.
LCCN 2009935898
ISBN9780199574865 (hbk.)
ISBN0199574863 (hbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR275.N29 B88 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold