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

Main Author: Butterfield, Ardis
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
Subjects:
Table of 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