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 our now standard accounts of
its history, culture and language allow. The French of England
(also known as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-French) is the language of
nearly a thousand literary texts, of much administration, and of
many professions and occupations. English literary, linguistic and
documentary history is deeply interwoven both with a continually
evolving spectrum of Frenches used within and outside the realm,
and cannot be fully grasped in isolation. The essays in this volume
open up andbegin writing a new cultural history focussed on, but
not confined to, the presence and interactions of francophone
speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the
eleventh to the later fifteenth centuries. They return us to a
newly-alive, multi-vocal, complexly multi-cultural medieval
England, in which the use of French and its interrelations with
English and other languages involve many diverse groups of people.
The volume's size testifies to the significance of England's
francophone culture, while its chronological range shows the need
for revision across the whole span of our existing narratives about
medieval English linguistic and cultural history.. 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,
GEOFFRECTOR, DELBERT RUSSELL, THEA SUMMERFIELD, ANDREW TAYLOR,
DAVID TROTTER, ELIZABETH M. TYLER, NICHOLAS WATSON, JOCELYN
WOGAN-BROWNE, ROBERT F. YEAGER
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