Ardis Butterfield, "The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War"
2010 | ISBN: 0199574863 | 432 pages | PDF | 4,5 MB
2010 | ISBN: 0199574863 | 432 pages | PDF | 4,5 MB
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.