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

Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature

Jonathan Hsy

264 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced

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Trading Tongues offers fresh approaches to the multilingualism of major early English authors like Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Margery Kempe, and William Caxton, and lesser-known figures like French lyricist Charles d’Orléans. Juxtaposing litera...

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