Title Trading tongues : merchants, multilingualism, and medieval literature / Jonathan Hsy.

Publication Info.	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
	©2013

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	P115.5.G7 H79 2013	Available	---

Description	xii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Interventions : new studies in medieval culture
	Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.
Provenance	Gift of Paul and Mary Haas.
Subject	Multilingualism and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
	Multilingualism and literature.
	England.
	History.
Chronological Term	To 1500
Subject	Multilingualism.
	Multilingualism -- England -- History -- To 1500.
	English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
	Languages in contact -- England -- History -- To 1500.
	Languages in contact.
	English literature -- Middle English.
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
ISBN	9780814212295 cloth alkaline paper
	0814212298 cloth alkaline paper
	9780814293317 CD-ROM
	081429331X CD-ROM
Standard No.	40022724002