Chaucer and Internationalism
- Author / Editor
- Salter, Elizabeth.
Chaucer and Internationalism
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 2 (1980): 71-79.
- Description
- Chaucer's writing of BD in English is not evidence of English nationalism but is "the triumph of internationalism." He adopted "both theory and precedent for the creation of high-prestige vernacular literature" to produce in English the kind of artistic work his contemporaries were producing in French.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Language and Word Studies.