Strangers in Late-Fourteenth-Century London
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek.
Strangers in Late-Fourteenth-Century London
- Published
- F. R. P. Akehurst and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, eds. The Stranger in Medieval Society (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 46-62.
- Description
- Explores the nuances of "strange" and "stranger" in Middle English, arguing that noncitizens, immigrants from the provinces, and merchants were considered strangers in London. Comments on the 1381 massacre of Flemings and Chaucer's allusion to it (NPT 7.3394-97).
- Alternative Title
- The Stranger in Medieval Society.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.