Trading tongues : merchants, multilingualism, and medieval literature / Jonathan Hsy.
2013
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Title
Trading tongues : merchants, multilingualism, and medieval literature / Jonathan Hsy.
Created/published
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2013.
Description
xii, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Interventions : new studies in medieval culture
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"--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.
Contents
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.
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.
Series
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Item Details
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P115.5.G7 H79 2013