The Familiar Enemy : Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations and maps -- Bibliographical note -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- PART I: NATION AND LANGUAGE -- 1. Pre-nation and Post-nation -- England and France: perspectives -- 'Father Chaucer' -- England's vernaculars -- Multilingualism and the war -- Nation and modernity -- 2. Origins and Language -- 'Origins' and Empire -- Language and history -- Dialect and difference -- 3. A Common Language? -- 'Les textes en jargon franco-anglais' -- Renart jongleur and vulgar invention -- Jehan et Blonde: possessing language -- Des Deus Anglois et de l'Anel: 'la langue torne a englois' -- Misspeaking La Male Honte -- An 'English' dialogue: Le Roi d'Angleterre et le Jongleur d'Ely -- French and Anglo-French: pronouncing the difference -- PART II: EXCHANGING TERMS: WAR AND PEACE -- 4. Fighting Talk -- Invective -- Jehan de le Mote and Philippe de Vitry -- Deschamps and the estrange nascion -- 'Franche dogue, dist un Anglois' -- Deschamps and Chaucer: 'Grant translateur' -- 5. Exchanging Terms -- Froissart on language -- Negotiating languages -- The King's Tale and The Knight's Tale: Jean II in England -- Envoys and Troilus and Criseyde -- 6. Trading Languages -- The stranger in London -- The Book of London English and the 'cumune voyse' -- Trading Flemish -- Chaucer's Merchant -- The Shipman's Tale: the 'famylier enemy' -- The Merchant's Tale -- 7. Lingua franca: the International Language of Love -- Cross-channel poetic communities -- Gower's French and the continent -- Rethinking source study -- The Cinkante Ballades: Five Anglo-French textual performances -- Rhetorical conclusions -- PART III: VERNACULAR SUBJECTS -- 8. The English Subject -- The Book of the Duchess and the assertion of English -- English and French subjects -- The monolingual turn -- Translating English.

English as a foreign language -- Troilus and Criseyde and English vernacular authority -- Charles d'Orléans and the English subject -- 9. Mother Tongues: English and French in fifteenth-century England -- Agincourt and its effects -- The status of English -- Teaching French in England -- English vernacular Prologues: simple and strange -- Mother tongues -- Christine de Pizan and Caxton -- 10. Betrayal and Nation -- The claims of retrospection -- Jeanne La Pucelle -- Henry V -- Asserting diversity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The Familiar Enemy examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France during the Hundred Years War. It explores works by Deschamps, Charles d'Orléans, and Gower, as well as Chaucer.

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