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Author Butterfield, Ardis.

Title The familiar enemy : Chaucer, language, and nation in the Hundred Years War / Ardis Butterfield
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 444 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Summary 'The Familiar Enemy' examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France during the Hundred Years War. It explores works by Deschamps, Charles d'Orleans, and Gower, as well as Chaucer who, the book argues, must be resituated within the context of the multilingual cultural geography of medieval Europe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-427) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast
Chaucer, Geoffrey. idszbz
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 1343?-1400 -- Language. idszbzes
History of English -- French influences. idszbzes
Chaucer, Geoffrey. swd
Subject 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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Middle English
French literature
French literature -- English influences
Nationalism and literature
Hundertjähriger Krieg
Nationalbewusstsein
Literatur
Literatur.
Mittelenglisch.
Hundertjähriger Krieg.
Nationalbewusstsein.
Middle English literature -- French influences.
Language and identity.
War in literature.
Hundred Years War, 1339-1453.
Identity, national.
identité nationale -- formation -- Angleterre (Grande-Bretagne) -- France -- guerre de Cent Ans.
anglais (langue) -- français (langue) -- littérature anglaise -- littérature française -- guerre de Cent Ans.
littérature française -- influence exercée -- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- medeltiden.
Fransk litteratur -- historia -- medeltiden.
Hundraårskriget 1337-1453.
Nationalism och litteratur -- England -- medeltiden.
Nationalism och litteratur -- Frankrike -- medeltiden.
Engelska språket -- historia -- medeltiden.
Franska språket -- historia -- medeltiden.
Kulturell identitet -- England -- medeltiden.
Kulturell identitet -- Frankrike -- medeltiden.
France
Great Britain
England
Frankreich
Frankreich.
England.
Great Britain -- Languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009935898
ISBN 9780191572401
0191572403
9780191722127
019172212X