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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 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
Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of
texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.
The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of
medieval French used in the British Isles), and the role it played
in the life of the medieval English kingdom, is currently a major
topic of scholarly debate. The essays in this volume examine it
from a variety of different perspectives and contexts, though with
a concentration on the theme of linguistic contact between
Anglo-Norman and English, seeking to situate it more precisely in
space and time than has hitherto been the case. Overall they show
how Anglo-Norman retained a strong presence in the linguistic life
of England until a strikingly late date, and how it constitutes a
rich and highly valuable record of theFrench language in the middle
ages. Contributors: Richard Ingham, Anthony Lodge, William
Rothwell, David Trotter, Mark Chambers, Louise Sylvester, Anne
Curry, Adrian Bell, Adam Chapman, Andy King, David Simpkin, Paul
Brand, Jean-Pascal Pouzet, Laura Wright, Eric Haeberli.
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A Companion to Ancrene Wisse (Paperback)
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Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical
approaches which establish the originality and interest of the
treatise. The thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse is a guide for
female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth,
it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do,
offering in its examples a glimpse of the real life women had in
England in the middle ages. It is also important for its evidence
for the continuation of the Anglo-Saxon tradition of prose writing,
being produced in the West Midlands where Old English writing
conventions continued to develop even after the Norman conquest.
The Companion addresses the cultural and historical background, the
affiliations of the versions, genre, authorship and language; the
various approaches also includea feminist reading of the text.
Contributors: ROGER DAHOOD, RICHARD DANCE, A.S.G. EDWARDS,
CATHERINE INNES-PARKER, BELLA MILLETT, CHRISTINA VON NOLCKEN,
ELIZABETH ROBERTSON, ANNE SAVAGE, D.A. TROTTER, YOKO WADA, NICHOLAS
WATSON.
Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages
of late medieval Britain. The languages of later medieval Britain
are here seen as no longerseparate or separable, but as needing to
be treated and studied together to discover the linguistic reality
of medieval Britain and make a meaningful assessment ofthe
relationship between the languages, and the role, status, function
or subsequent history of any of them. This theme emerges from all
the articles collected here from leading international experts in
their fields, dealing withlaw, language, Welsh history,
sociolinguistics and historical lexicography. The documents and
texts studied include a Vatican register of miracles in
fourteenth-century Hereford, medical treatises, municipal records
from York, teaching manuals, gild registers, and an account of work
done on the bridges of the river Thames. Contributors: PAUL BRAND,
BEGON CRESPO GARCIA, TONY HUNT, LUIS IGLESIAS-RABADE, LISA
JEFFERSON, ANDRES M. KRISTOL, FRANKWALTMOHREN, MICHAEL RICHTER,
WILLIAM ROTHWELL, HERBERT SCHENDL, LLINOS BEVERLEY SMITH, D.A.
TROTTER, EDMUIND WEINER, LAURA WRIGHT Professor D.A. TROTTER is
Professor of French and Head of Department of European Languages at
the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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
Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical
approaches which establish the originality and interest of the
treatise. The thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse is a guide for
female recluses. Addressed to three young sisters of gentle birth,
it teaches what truly good anchoresses should and should not do,
offering in its examples a glimpse of the real life women had in
England in the middle ages. It is also important for its evidence
for the continuation of the Anglo-Saxon tradition of prose writing,
being produced in the West Midlands where Old English writing
conventions continued to develop even after the Norman conquest.
The Companion addresses the cultural and historical background, the
affiliations of the versions, genre, authorship and language; the
various approaches also includea feminist reading of the text.
Contributors ROGER DAHOOD, RICHARD DANCE, A.S.G. EDWARDS, CATHERINE
INNES-PARKER, BELLA MILLETT, CHRISTINA VON NOLCKEN, ELIZABETH
ROBERTSON, ANNE SAVAGE, D.A. TROTTER, YOKO WADA, NICHOLAS WATSON.
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