Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer [electronic resource] /
Davidson, M.author.
In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned against the vernacular sentiment traditionally attributed to Langland and Chaucer.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-206) and index.
pt. 1. Traditions of contact and conflict in the history of English -- pt. 2. "And in Latyn ... a wordes fewe" : contact and medieval conformity.
In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned against the vernacular sentiment traditionally attributed to Langland and Chaucer.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Literature, Medieval.
Classical literature.
British literature.
Multilingualism.
Medieval Literature.
Classical and Antique Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Multilingualism.