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Language and Culture in Medieval Britain
The French of England, c.1100-c.1500
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Edited by:
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
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With contributions by:
Serge Lusignan
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English
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2009
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Groundbreaking surveys of the complex interrelationship between the languages of English and French in medieval Britain.
With co-editors: CAROLYN COLLETTE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, LINNE MOONEY, AD PUTTER, and DAVID TROTTER
England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the middle ages than many standard accounts of its history, culture and language allow. The development of French in England, whether known as "Anglo-Norman" or "Anglo-French", is deeply interwoven both with medieval English and with the spectrum of Frenches, insular and continental, used withinand outside the realm. As the language of nearly a thousand literary texts, of much administration, and of many professions and occupations, the French of England needs more attention than it has so far received.
The essaysin this volume form a new cultural history focussed round, but not confined to, the presence and interactions of French speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the eleventh to the later fifteenth century.Taking the French of England into account does not simply add new material to our existing narratives of medieval English culture, but changes them, restoring a multi-vocal, multi-cultural medieval England in all its complexity, and opening up fresh agendas for study and exploration.
Contributors: HENRY BAINTON, MICHAEL BENNETT, JULIA BOFFEY, RICHARD BRITNELL, CAROLYN COLLETTE, GODFRIED CROENEN, HELEN DEEMING, STEPHANIE DOWNES, MARTHA DRIVER, MONICA H. GREEN, RICHARD INGHAM, REBECCA JUNE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, PIERRE KUNSTMANN, FRANCOISE H. M. LE SAUX, SERGE LUSIGNAN, TIM WILLIAM MACHAN, JULIA MARVIN, BRIAN MERRILEES, RUTH NISSE, MARILYN OLIVA, W. MARK ORMROD, HEATHER PAGAN, LAURIE POSTLEWATE, JEAN-PASCAL POUZET, AD PUTTER, GEOFF RECTOR, DELBERT RUSSELL, THEA SUMMERFIELD, ANDREW TAYLOR, DAVID TROTTER, ELIZABETH M. TYLER, NICHOLAS WATSON, JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE, ROBERT F. YEAGER
With co-editors: CAROLYN COLLETTE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, LINNE MOONEY, AD PUTTER, and DAVID TROTTER
England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the middle ages than many standard accounts of its history, culture and language allow. The development of French in England, whether known as "Anglo-Norman" or "Anglo-French", is deeply interwoven both with medieval English and with the spectrum of Frenches, insular and continental, used withinand outside the realm. As the language of nearly a thousand literary texts, of much administration, and of many professions and occupations, the French of England needs more attention than it has so far received.
The essaysin this volume form a new cultural history focussed round, but not confined to, the presence and interactions of French speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the eleventh to the later fifteenth century.Taking the French of England into account does not simply add new material to our existing narratives of medieval English culture, but changes them, restoring a multi-vocal, multi-cultural medieval England in all its complexity, and opening up fresh agendas for study and exploration.
Contributors: HENRY BAINTON, MICHAEL BENNETT, JULIA BOFFEY, RICHARD BRITNELL, CAROLYN COLLETTE, GODFRIED CROENEN, HELEN DEEMING, STEPHANIE DOWNES, MARTHA DRIVER, MONICA H. GREEN, RICHARD INGHAM, REBECCA JUNE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, PIERRE KUNSTMANN, FRANCOISE H. M. LE SAUX, SERGE LUSIGNAN, TIM WILLIAM MACHAN, JULIA MARVIN, BRIAN MERRILEES, RUTH NISSE, MARILYN OLIVA, W. MARK ORMROD, HEATHER PAGAN, LAURIE POSTLEWATE, JEAN-PASCAL POUZET, AD PUTTER, GEOFF RECTOR, DELBERT RUSSELL, THEA SUMMERFIELD, ANDREW TAYLOR, DAVID TROTTER, ELIZABETH M. TYLER, NICHOLAS WATSON, JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE, ROBERT F. YEAGER
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Contributor: Carolyn P Collette
CAROLYN COLLETTE is an American literary critic whose work has focused on late Medieval Anglo-French literary culture. She is Professor Emerita of English literature at Mount Holyoke College.
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Contributor: Ad Putter
Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.
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Contributor: W Mark Ormrod
The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.
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Contributor: R F Yeager
R.F. YEAGER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Language, University of West Florida.
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Contributor: Nicholas Watson
NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular.
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Contributor: Carolyn P Collette
CAROLYN COLLETTE is an American literary critic whose work has focused on late Medieval Anglo-French literary culture. She is Professor Emerita of English literature at Mount Holyoke College.
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Contributor: Julia Boffey
JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London.
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Contributor: Ad Putter
Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.
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Contributor: Andrew Taylor
ANDREW TAYLOR is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
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Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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ABBREVIATIONS
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General Introduction: What’s in a Name: The ‘French’ of ‘England’
1 - Section I Language and Socio-Linguistics
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INTRODUCTION
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1 French Language in Contact with English: Social Context and Linguistic Change (mid-13th–14th centuries)
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2 The Language of Complaint: Multiligualism and Petitioning in Later Medieval England
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3 The Persistence of Anglo-Norman 1230–1362: A Linguistic Perspective
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4 Syntaxe anglo-normande : étude de certaines caractéristiques du XIIe au XIVe siècle
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5 ‘“Fi a debles,” quath the king’: Language-mixing in England’s Vernacular Historical Narratives, c.1290 – c.1340
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6 Uses of French Language in Medieval English Towns
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7 The French of England in Female Convents: The French Kitcheners’ Accounts of Campsey Ash Priory
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8 The French of England: A Maritime lingua franca?
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9 John Barton, John Gower and Others: Variation in Late Anglo-French
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10 John Gower’s French and his Readers
135 - Section II Crossing the Conquest: New Linguistic and Literary Histories
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11 ‘Stuffed Latin’: Vernacular Evidence in Latin Documents
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12 From Old English to Old French
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13 Translating the ‘English’ Past: Cultural Identity in the Estoire des Engleis
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14 The Languages of England: Multilingualism in the Work of Wace
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15 An Illustrious Vernacular: The Psalter en romanz in Twelfth-Century England
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16 Serpent’s Head/ Jew’s Hand: Le Jeu d’Adam and Christian–Jewish Debate in Norman England
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17 Salerno on the Thames: The Genesis of Anglo–Norman Medical Literature
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18 ‘Cest livre liseez … chescun jour’: Women and Reading c.1230–c.1430
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19 French Devotional Texts in Thirteenth-Century Preachers’ Anthologies
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20 Augustinian Canons and their Insular French Books in Medieval England: Towards An Assessment
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21 Eschuer peché, embracer bountee: Social Thought and Pastoral Instruction in Nicole Bozon
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22 The Cultural Context of the French Prose remaniement of the Life of Edward the Confessor by a Nun of Barking Abbey
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23 The Vitality of Anglo-Norman in Late Medieval England: The Case of the Prose Brut Chronicle
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24 France in England: Anglo-French Culture in the Reign of Edward III
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25 Lollardy: The Anglo-Norman Heresy?
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26 The Languages of Memory: The Crabhouse Nunnery Manuscript
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27 French, English, and the Late Medieval Linguistic Repertoire
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28 Aristotle, Translation and the Mean: Shaping the Vernacular in Late Medieval Anglo-French Culture
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29 Writing English in a French Penumbra: The Middle English ‘Tree of Love’ in MS Longleat 253
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30 The French of English Letters: Two Trilingual Verse Epistles in Context
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31 The Reception of Froissart’s Writings in England: The Evidence of the Manuscripts
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32 ‘Me fault faire’: French Makers of Manuscripts for English Patrons
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33 The French Self-Presentation of an English Mastiff: John Talbot’s Book of Chivalry
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34 A ‘Frenche booke called the Pistill of Othea’: Christine de Pizan’s French in England
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Index of primary Texts and manuscripts
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Index of primary Authors
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General Index: Persons and Places, subjects
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9781846157400
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York Medieval Press
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Keywords for this book
Anglo-Norman; Anglo-French; Language; Culture; Medieval England; French Speakers; Literary Texts; Multi-Cultural; French Influence; Medieval Britain; English and French; Administration; Professions; English Literary History; Linguistic History; Documentary History; Francophone Speakers; Interactions; Multicultural Medieval England
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
