Ardis Butterfield

The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War

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Produktbeschreibung

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'Orléans, and Gower, as well as Chaucer who, the book argues, must be resituated within the context of the multilingual cultural geography of medieval Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780199574865
• ISBN-10: 0199574863
• Artikelnr.: 27870282

Autorenporträt

Ardis Butterfield has published widely on English and French medieval literature and music. Her books include Poetry and Music in Medieval France from Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut (Cambridge, 2002), an edited collection of essays, Chaucer and the City (Cambridge, 2006). She has recently been awarded a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2008-2011) to work on 'The Origins of English Song'. She has given several talks and interviews on medieval literature and music for Radio 3 and Radio 4.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations and maps
Bibliographical note
List of Abbreviations
Preface
I Nation and Language
1: Introduction: Pre-nation and post-nation
2: Origins and language
3: A common language?
II Exchanging Terms: War and Peace
4: Fighting talk
5: Exchanging Terms
6: Trading languages
7: Lingua franca: the international language of love
III Vernacular Subjects
8: The English subject
9: Mother tongues
10: Betrayal and Nation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index