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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524875803321

Autore

Hsy Jonathan Horng

Titolo

Trading Tongues : Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature / / Jonathan Hsy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-8142-7105-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Interventions : new studies in medieval culture

Disciplina

404/.209420902

Soggetti

Languages in contact - England - History - To 1500

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Multilingualism - England - History - To 1500

Multilingualism and literature - England - History - To 1500

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.