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Trading tongues

Hsy, Jonathan Horng.

Trading tongues merchants, multilingualism, and medieval literature / [electronic resource] : Jonathan Hsy. - Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (264 p.) - Interventions : new studies in medieval culture .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780814271056 0814271057


Languages in contact--History--England--To 1500.
English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Multilingualism--History--England--To 1500.
Multilingualism and literature--History--England--To 1500.


Electronic books.

P115.5.G7 / H79 2013

404/.209420902