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

by 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019965770X
• ISBN13: 9780199657704
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"