1 French Language in Contact with English: Social Context and Linguistic Change (mid-13th–14th centuries)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES viii
4. Contributors xi
5. Acknowledgements xvii
6. ABBREVIATIONS xix
7. General Introduction: What’s in a Name: The ‘French’ of ‘England’ 1
8. Section I Language and Socio-Linguistics
9. INTRODUCTION 17
10. 1 French Language in Contact with English: Social Context and Linguistic Change (mid-13th–14th centuries) 19
11. 2 The Language of Complaint: Multiligualism and Petitioning in Later Medieval England 31
12. 3 The Persistence of Anglo-Norman 1230–1362: A Linguistic Perspective 44
13. 4 Syntaxe anglo-normande : étude de certaines caractéristiques du XII^e au XIV^e siècle 55
14. 5 ‘“Fi a debles,” quath the king’: Language-mixing in England’s Vernacular Historical Narratives, c.1290 – c.1340 68
15. 6 Uses of French Language in Medieval English Towns 81
16. 7 The French of England in Female Convents: The French Kitcheners’ Accounts of Campsey Ash Priory 90
17. 8 The French of England: A Maritime lingua franca? 103
18. 9 John Barton, John Gower and Others: Variation in Late Anglo-French 118
19. 10 John Gower’s French and his Readers 135
20. Section II Crossing the Conquest: New Linguistic and Literary Histories
21. Introduction 149
22. 11 ‘Stuffed Latin’: Vernacular Evidence in Latin Documents 153
23. 12 From Old English to Old French 164
24. 13 Translating the ‘English’ Past: Cultural Identity in the Estoire des Engleis 179
25. 14 The Languages of England: Multilingualism in the Work of Wace 188
26. 15 An Illustrious Vernacular: The Psalter en romanz in Twelfth-Century England 198
27. 16 Serpent’s Head/ Jew’s Hand: Le Jeu d’Adam and Christian–Jewish Debate in Norman England 207
28. 17 Salerno on the Thames: The Genesis of Anglo–Norman Medical Literature 220
29. Section III After Lateran IV: Francophone Devotions and Histories
30. Introduction 235
31. 18 ‘Cest livre liseez … chescun jour’: Women and Reading c.1230–c.1430 239
32. 19 French Devotional Texts in Thirteenth-Century Preachers’ Anthologies 254
33. 20 Augustinian Canons and their Insular French Books in Medieval England: Towards An Assessment 266
34. 21 Eschuer peché, embracer bountee: Social Thought and Pastoral Instruction in Nicole Bozon 278
35. 22 The Cultural Context of the French Prose remaniement of the Life of Edward the Confessor by a Nun of Barking Abbey 290
36. 23 The Vitality of Anglo-Norman in Late Medieval England: The Case of the Prose Brut Chronicle 303
37. 24 France in England: Anglo-French Culture in the Reign of Edward III 320
38. 25 Lollardy: The Anglo-Norman Heresy? 334
39. 26 The Languages of Memory: The Crabhouse Nunnery Manuscript 347
40. Section IV England and French in the late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
41. Introduction 361
42. 27 French, English, and the Late Medieval Linguistic Repertoire 363
43. 28 Aristotle, Translation and the Mean: Shaping the Vernacular in Late Medieval Anglo-French Culture 373
44. 29 Writing English in a French Penumbra: The Middle English ‘Tree of Love’ in MS Longleat 253 386
45. 30 The French of English Letters: Two Trilingual Verse Epistles in Context 397
46. 31 The Reception of Froissart’s Writings in England: The Evidence of the Manuscripts 409
47. 32 ‘Me fault faire’: French Makers of Manuscripts for English Patrons 420
48. 33 The French Self-Presentation of an English Mastiff: John Talbot’s Book of Chivalry 444
49. 34 A ‘Frenche booke called the Pistill of Othea’: Christine de Pizan’s French in England 457
50. BIBLIOGRAPHY 469
51. Index of primary Texts and manuscripts 521
52. Index of primary Authors 527
53. General Index: Persons and Places, subjects 529