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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