Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Abbreviations xii
6. ‘The Light I Never Left Behind’: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne xiii
7. Introduction: Recognizing the French of Medieval England 1
8. 1 The Gloss to Philippe de Thaon’s Comput and the French of England’s Beginnings 13
9. 2 The Scandals of Medieval Translation: Thinking Difference in Francophone Texts and Manuscripts 38
10. 3 Contrafacture and Translation: The Prisoner’s Lament 55
11. 4 Complaining about the King in French in Thomas Wright’s Political Songs of England 82
12. 5 The Chanson d’Aspremont in Bodmer 11 and Plantagenet Propaganda 100
13. 6 The Use of Anglo-Norman in Day-to-Day Communication during the Anglo-Scottish Wars (1295–1314) 116
14. 7 Middle English Borrowing from French: Nouns and Verbs of Interpersonal Cognition in the Early South English Legendary 128
15. 8 William Langland Reads Robert Grosseteste 140
16. 9 Disability Networks in the Campsey Manuscript 157
17. 10 English Women and their French Books: Teaching about the Jews in Medieval England 175
18. 11 French Residents in England at the Start of the Hundred Years War: Learning English, Speaking English and Becoming English in 1346 190
19. 12 French Immigrants and the French Language in Late-Medieval England 206
20. 13 Fashioning a Useable Linguistic Past: The French of Medieval England and the Invention of a National Vernacular in Early Modern France 225
21. 14 Admiring Ambivalence: On Paul Meyer’s Anglo-Norman Scholarship 241
22. 15 Twenty-First Century Gower: The Theology of Marriage in John Gower’s Traitié and the Turn toward French 257
23. 16 Royaumes sans frontières: The Place of England in the Long Twelfth Century 272
24. Afterword 280
25. Bibliography 291
26. Select Index of Names, Titles and Places 330
27. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne: Publications 334
28. Tabula Gratulatoria 341