Trading tongues : merchants, multilingualism, and medieval literature / Jonathan Hsy.

This book 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 contemporaneous Latin and French civic...

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Main Author: Hsy, Jonathan Horng
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
Series:Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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505 0 |a Introduction : London's languages and translingual writing -- Chaucer's polyglot dwellings : home and the customs house -- Overseas travel and languages in motion -- Translingual identities in John Gower and William Caxton -- Travel and language contact in The book of Margery Kempe -- Merchant compilations and translingual creation -- Coda : contact literatures, medieval/postcolonial. 
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