Trading Tongues Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature /
Jonathan Hsy.
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Interventions : new studies in medieval culture .
- Interventions : new studies in medieval culture. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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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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.