form of a manufactured article. (p. 185)

     Paradoxically, it will be these international deviationists 
from medieval town and guild life who form the nationalist core 
in the Renaissance. It is Chaucer’s Host and Wyf of Bath, 
among others, who are the “outsiders” of their society. They 
belong to the international set, as it were, who will become the 
middle class in the Renaissance.

          The term hôtes  (literally “guests”), which appears 
     more and more frequently from the beginning of the 
     twelfth century, is characteristic of the movement which 
     was then going on in rural society. As the name indicates 
     the hôte  was a new-comer, a stranger. He was, in short, a 
     kind of colonist, an immigrant in search of new lands to 
     cultivate. These colonists were undoubtedly drawn either