The Hundred Years War and the 'Creation' of National Identity and the Written English Vernacular: A Reassessment
- Author / Editor
- Hardy, Duncan.
The Hundred Years War and the 'Creation' of National Identity and the Written English Vernacular: A Reassessment
- Published
- Marginalia 17 (2013): 18-31.
- Description
- Argues that the Hundred Years' War has been overemphasized as a moment in which war, identity, and language coalesced to form distinct English and French nations and vernaculars. Portrayals of France in the works of Chaucer and others are not oppositional, and Chaucer's attitude towards French is self-deprecating.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies