"Becoming English": Nationality, terminology, and changing sides in the Late Middle Ages
Late medieval English chronicles contain several puzzling references to the idea of people ›becoming English‹ by changing allegiance, usually in the context of war. How does this fit in with the predominantly ›racial‹ understanding of nationhood that permeated late-medieval English literary texts an...
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
2017
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