The familiar enemy
Subtitle: Chaucer, language, and nation in the Hundred Years War
By: Ardis Butterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780199574865
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-427) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nation and language. Pre-nation and post-nation ; Origins and language ; A common language?; title: Exchanging terms : war and peace. Fighting talk ; Exchanging terms ; Trading languages ; Lingua franca : the international language of love; title: Vernacular subjects. The English subject ; Mother tongues : English and French in fifteenth-century England ; Betrayal and nation.