Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer

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.

Auteur

MARY CATHERINE DAVIDSON is Associate Professorof English at the University of Kansas, USA.

Contenu
Disciplining Middle English Linguistic Medievalism: Walter Scott's Ivanhoe Hengest's Tongue: Monolingualism in Late Medieval England Multilingual Writing and Piers Plowman Chaucer's Multilingual Nation English Anthems