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Trading tongues : merchants, multilingualism, and medieval literature /

" ... Offers fresh approaches to the multilingualism of major early English authors like Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Margery Kempe, and William Caxton, and lesser-known figures like French lyricist Charles d'Orléans. Juxtaposing literary works with contemporaeous Latin and French civic r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hsy, Jonathan Horng
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
Series:Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Subjects:
Multilingualism and literature > England > History > To 1500.
Multilingualism > England > History > To 1500.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Languages in contact > England > History > To 1500.
English literature > Middle English.
Languages in contact.
Multilingualism.
Multilingualism and literature.
England.
Mittelenglisch.
Literatur.
Mehrsprachigkeit.
Sprachkontakt.
Kaufmann.
Middle English literature > History and criticism.
Middle English > Influences.
Language contact > England > History > To 1500.
To 1500
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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Summary:" ... Offers fresh approaches to the multilingualism of major early English authors like Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Margery Kempe, and William Caxton, and lesser-known figures like French lyricist Charles d'Orléans. Juxtaposing literary works with contemporaeous Latin and French civic records, mixed-language merchant miscellanies, and bilingual phrasebooks, Jonathan Hsy illustrates how language comingled in late medieval and early modern cities"--Cover, p. [4].
Physical Description:xii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.
ISBN:9780814212295 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814212298 (cloth : alk. paper)