The Familiar Enemy Chaucer Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War 1st Edition by Ardis Butterfield ISBN 0199574863 9780199574865

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ISBN 10: 0199574863

ISBN 13: 9780199574865 

Author: Ardis Butterfield 

The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their aggressively intimate relationship. This special connection between the English and the French has endured into the modern period as a model for Western nationhood. Ardis Butterfield reassesses the concept of ‘nation’ in this period through a wide-ranging discussion of writing produced in war, truce, or exile from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, concluding with reflections on the retrospective views of this conflict created by the trials of Jeanne d’Arc and by Shakespeare’s Henry V. She considers authors writing in French, ‘Anglo-Norman’, English, and the comic tradition of Anglo-French ‘jargon’, including Machaut, Deschamps, Froissart, Chaucer, Gower, Charles d’Orléans, as well as many lesser-known or anonymous works. Traditionally Chaucer has been seen as a quintessentially English author. This book argues that he needs to be resituated within the deeply francophone context, not only of England but the wider multilingual cultural geography of medieval Europe. It thus suggests that a modern understanding of what ‘English’ might have meant in the fourteenth century cannot be separated from ‘French’, and that this has far-reaching implications both for our understanding of English and the English, and of French and the French.

Table of contents:

I Nation and Language
1:Introduction: Pre-nation and post-nation
2:Origins and language
3:A common language?
II Exchanging Terms: War and Peace
4:Fighting talk
5:Exchanging Terms
6:Trading languages
7:Lingua franca: the international language of love
III Vernacular Subjects
8:The English subject
9:Mother tongues
10:Betrayal and Nation

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