The Familiar Enemy Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War
ISBN: 9780199657704 | 019965770X
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/1/2013
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The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their aggressively intimate relationship. This special connection between the English and the French has endured into the modern period as a model for Western nationhood. Ardis Butterfield reassesses the concept of 'nation' in thisperiod through a wide-ranging discussion of writing produced in war, truce,... MORE
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 Vernacul... MORE
8. The English subject
9. Mother tongues
10. Betrayal and Nation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Ardis Butterfield is Professor of English at Yale University.
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