Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer

1. Introduction: Monolingualism and Middle English
Mary Catherine Davidson

Part I. Traditions of Contact and Conflict in the History of English

2. Medievalism and Monolingualism
Mary Catherine Davidson

3. Hengist’s Tongue: A Medieval History of English
Mary Catherine Davidson

Part II. “And in Latyn … a Wordes Fewe”: Contact and Medieval Conformity

4. Multilingual Writing and William Langland
Mary Catherine Davidson

5. Chaucer’s “Diversite”
Mary Catherine Davidson

6. Afterword: Postcolonialism and Chaucer’s English
Mary Catherine Davidson

Keywords: Literature, Medieval Literature, Classical and Antique Literature, British and Irish Literature, Multilingualism