In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned agai

Analyzes the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Margery Kempe and more to illustrate how languages commingled in late medieval and early modern cities.

"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life -- yet his poems are anything but conventional.

Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fres

Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at.