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Winner of the R.H.Gapper Book Prize 2010
The Familiar Enemy
Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War
Ardis Butterfield
480 pages
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10 black and white halftones, 3 maps
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234x156mm
978-0-19-957486-5
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Hardback
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10 December 2009
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- Broad-ranging study of both English and French literature across three centuries
- Sets Chaucer in a newly detailed French and Anglo-French context
- Provides an innovative approach to nation through close analysis of French and English literary language
- Considers the Hundred Years War from the perspectives of literature and language
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'Orléans, 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.Readership: Students and scholars of Medieval French and English Literature, especially Chaucer, historical linguistics and historians of the Hundred Years War
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Ardis Butterfield, Yale University
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"This will be recognized as one of the most important books in Middle English and Chaucer Studies of the last thirty years ... it offers illuminating long perspectives on contemporary debates on where and when nationhood begins and ends, and on how linguistic practices mesh with territorial and political structuresa brilliant and timely book." - David Wallace, Queen Mary Medieval Studies "This is a huge, learned and highly intelligent book ... The Familiar Enemy is destined to crucially re-shape the debate on the French angle of English literary history and to move that debate to the centre of Middle English studies. It will remain on reading lists for decades to come." - Andrew James Johnstone,
Anglia "[a] richly complex and detailed book... The ability to reach so subtly and thoughtfully across five centuries and the whole geographical and linguistic complex of England and France gives the book its importance." - Helen Cooper, London Review of Books "If anyone wonder whether there was ever a time when the typical Englishman abroad could converse in a number of languages, I would recommend that they consult this book to find out." - Ad Putter, Times Literary Supplement "Butterfield advances several groundbreaking arguments, which she articulates with admirable clarity and supports with impressively meticulous documentation" - French Studies "historians will learn much from this
wide-ranging study by a leading scholar in the field." - S. H. Rigby, English Historical Review
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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations and maps
Bibliographical note
List of Abbreviations
Preface
I Nation and Language
1: Introduction: Pre-nation and post-nation
2: Origins and language
3: A common language?
II Exchanging Terms: War and Peace
4: Fighting talk
5: Exchanging Terms
6: Trading languages
7: Lingua franca: the international language of love
III Vernacular Subjects
8: The English subject
9: Mother tongues
10: Betrayal and Nation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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