Literary, Historical, and Cultural

  • Barlow, Frank. The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216. London and New York: Longman, 1955-99 (5 editions).
  • Bartlett, Robert. England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1075-1225. Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Baswell, Christopher. “Multilingualism on the Page.” Middle English, Oxford Companion to Twenty-First Century Literature. Ed. Paul Strohm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Bates, David and Anne Curry, eds. England and Normandy in the Middle Ages. London ; Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1994.
  • Busby, Keith. “‘Neither Flesh nor Fish, nor Good Red Herring’: The Case of Anglo-Norman Literature.” Studies in Honour of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics.  Ed. Rupert T. Pickens.  Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1993. 399-417. A useful concise overview of the history and nature of the French literature of England.
  • Butterfield, Ardis. The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • Chibnall, Marjorie. Anglo-Norman England 1066-1166. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.
  • —. The Debate on the Norman Conquest. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
  • Clanchy, M.T. England and Its Rulers 1066-1272, 2nd. ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
  • —.From Memory to Written Record 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
  • Crane, Susan. “Anglo-Norman Cultures.” The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature.  Ed. David Wallace, 35-60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  • —. Insular Romance: Politics, Faith, and Culture in Anglo-Norman and Middle English Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
  • Delano-Smith, Catherine, and Roger J.P. Kain. English Maps: A History. London: British Library, 1999.
  • Edson, Evelyn. Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World. London: British Library, 1999.
  • Field, Rosalind. “Romance in England, 1066-1400.” The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature.  Ed. David Wallace.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 152-76.
  • Foulet, Alfred, and Mary Blakely Speer. On Editing Old French Texts. Lawrence, 1979.
  • Frankis, P. John. “The Social Context of Vernacular Writing in the Thirteenth Century: The Evidence of the Manuscripts,” Thirteenth Century England I, 175-84.
  • Galloway, Andrew. “Writing History in England,” in The Cambridge History of Medieval Literature.  Ed. David Wallace.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 255-83.
  • Georgianna, Linda. “Coming to Terms with the Norman Conquest: Nationalism and English Literary History.” Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 14, Literature and the Nation.  Ed. Brook Thomas.  Tübingen: Narr, 1998.  33-53.
  • Gillingham, John. “The Context and Purposes of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain.” ANS 13 (1990): 99-118.
  • Hastings, Adrian. The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Higham, N.J. The Norman Conquest. Sutton Pocket Histories. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1995.
  • Jeffrey, David L. and Brian J. Levy, ed. and trans. The Anglo-Norman Lyric: An Anthology. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1990.
  • Johnson, Lesley. “Imagining Communities: Medieval and Modern.” Concepts of National Identity in the Middle Ages. Ed. Simon Forde and Lesley Johnson. Leeds: University of Leeds, 1995. 1-20.
  • Kummler, Aden. Translating Truth:  Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
  • Laurent, Françoise. Plaire et édifier: Les récits hagiographiques composés en Angleterre aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles. Paris: Champion, 1998.
  • Lewis, C.P. “The French in England before the Norman Conquest.” ANS 17 (1994): 123-39.
  • Nicholls, Jonathan. The Matter of Courtesy: Medieval Courtesy Books and the Gawain-Poet. Woodbridge: Brewer, 1985.
  • Otter, Monika. Inventiones: Fiction and Referentiality in Twelfth-Century English Historical Writing. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
  • Partner, Nancy. Serious Entertainments: The Writing of History in Twelfth-Century England. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1977.
  • Rollo, David. Historical Fabrication, Ethic Fable, and French Romance in Twelfth-Century England.Edward C. Armstrong Monographs on Medieval Literature 9. Lexington: French Forum Publishers, 1998.
  • Schmolke-Hasselmann, Beata. The Evolution of Arthurian Romance: The Verse Tradition from Chrétien to Froissart. Trans. Margaret and Roger Middleton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  • Shopkow, Leah. History and Community: Norman Historical Writing in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1997.
  • Short, Ian.  “Anglice loqui nesciunt: Monoglots in Anglo-Norman England.”  Cultura Neolatina 69 (2009): 245-62.
  • —. “L’Anglo-normand au travail.”  Romania 127 (2009): 487-89.
  • —. “Anglo-Norman Language and Literature.” Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages.  Ed. Robert E. Bjork. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.  888, 949, 1003-4.
  • —. “Anglo-Norman Literature, La Chanson de Roland, etc.” The New Oxford Companion to LIterature in French. Ed. Peter France. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.  28-32, 705-6, 18, 46, 82, 88-89, 341, 364, 366, 396, 507-8, 621, 649, 847, 849.
  • —. “Another Look at ‘le faus franceis.’”  Nottingham Medieval Studies 54 (2010): 35-55.
  • —. “Language and Literature.”  A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World.  Ed. C. Harper-Bill and E. Van Houts. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2003. 191-213.
  • —. “Literary Culture at the Court of Henry II.”  Henry II: New Interpretations.  Ed. C. Harper-Bill and N. Vincent. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007. 335-61.
  • —. “La Littérature anglo-normande et les débuts de la chevalerie.”  Esprit de chevalerie et littérature chevaleresque: Actes du quatrième Colloque d’Etudes Médiévales (mars 2003).  Taiwan: University Fu Jen, 2004.  66-77.
  • —.  “Patrons and Polyglots: French Literature in Twelfth-Century England.” ANS 14 (1991): 229-49.
  • —.  “Verbatim et literatim: Oral and Written French in 12th-Century Britain.”  Vox Romanica 68 (2009): 156-68.
  • Spiegel, Gabrielle. Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
  • —.”Pseudo-Turpin, The Crisis of the Aristocracy, and the Beginnings of Vernacular Historiography in France.” Journal of Medieval History 12 (1986): 207-23.
  • Stafford, Pauline. “Women and the Norman Conquest.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 6th ser., vol. 4 (1994): 221-49.
  • —.Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women’s Power in Eleventh-Century England. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1997.
  • van Houts, Elizabeth. The Normans in Europe. Manchester Medieval Sources Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
  • van Emden, Wolfgang. La Chanson de Roland. Critical guides to French texts 113. Grant & Cutler, 1995. Very useful intro to text, with exhaustive bibliography.
  • Walker, David. The Normans in Britain. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995.
  • Warren, Michelle R. History on the Edge: Excalibur and the Borders of Britain, 1100-1300. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.