Excerpts from texts (with translation) from the French of medieval
England offer a guide to medieval literary theory. From the twelfth
to the fifteenth centuries, French was one of England's main
languages of literature, record, diplomacy and commerce and also
its only supra-national vernacular. As is now recognised, the large
corpus of England'sFrench texts and records is indispensable to
understanding England's literary and cultural history, the
multilingualism of early England, and European medieval
French-language culture in general. This volume presents a full,
representative collection of texts and facing translations from
England's medieval French. Through its selection of prologues and
other excerpts from works composed or circulating in England, the
volume presents a body of vernacular literary theory, in which some
fifty-five highly various texts, from a range of genres, discuss
their own origins, circumstances, strategies, source materials,
purposes and audiences. Each entry, newly edited from a single
manuscript, is accompanied by a headnote, annotation, and narrative
bibliography, while a general introduction and section
introductions provide further context and information. Also
included are essays on French in England and onthe prosody and
prose of insular French; Middle English versions of some of the
edited French texts; and a glossary of literary terms. By giving
access to a literate culture hitherto available primarily only to
Anglo-Norman specialists, this book opens up new possibilities for
taking English francophony into account in research and teaching.
JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE is Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in
Literature, English Department, Fordham University, New York, and
formerly Professor of Medieval Literature, University of York;
THELMA FENSTER is Professor Emerita of French and Medieval Studies,
Fordham University; DELBERT RUSSELL is Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of French, University of Waterloo.
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