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Trading tongues : merchants, multilingualism, and medieval literature / Jonathan Hsy.
Van Pelt Library P115.5.G7 H79 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hsy, Jonathan Horng.
- Series:
- Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
- Interventions : new studies in medieval culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multilingualism and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Multilingualism and literature.
- Multilingualism--England--History--To 1500.
- Multilingualism.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Languages in contact--England--History--To 1500.
- Languages in contact.
- History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814212295
- 0814212298
- 9780814293317
- 081429331X
- OCLC:
- 823927730
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