Trading tongues [electronic resource] : merchants, multilingualism, and medieval literature / Jonathan Hsy.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)ISBN:- 9780814271056
- 0814271057
- 404/.209420902 23
- P115.5.G7 H79 2013
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.
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