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The Familiar Enemy - Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War (Hardcover)
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The Familiar Enemy - Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War (Hardcover)
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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'Orleans, 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.
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