Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne 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 allow. French in England, whether known as ‘Anglo-Norman’ or ‘Anglo-French,’ is deeply interwoven in its continuing development both with medieval English and with the spectrum of Frenches, insular and continental, used within and 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 yet been given. The essays in this volume begin a new cultural history focused around, but not confined to, the presence and interactions of French speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the late eleventh to the 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 England in all its complexity, and opening up fresh agendas for study and exploration.
Contributors: H. Bainton, M. J. Bennett, J. Boffey, R. M. Britnell, C. Collette, G. Croenen, H. Deeming, S. Downes, M. Driver, M. H. Green, R. Ingham, R. June, M. Kowaleski, P. Kunstmann, F. H. M. Le Saux, S. Lusignan, T. W. Machan, J. Marvin, B. Merrilees, R. Nisse, M. Oliva, W. M. Ormrod, H. Pagan, L. Postlewate, J.-P. Pouzet, A. Putter, G. Rector, D. W. Russell, T.Summerfield, A. Taylor, D. A. Trotter, E. M. Tyler, N. Watson, J. Wogan-Browne, R. F. Yeager.
20 b/w, 1 line illus.; 560pp, 23.4 x 15.6cm, 978 1 90315 327 7, October 2009, £50.00/$95.00
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Contents |
| General Introduction | What’s in a Name: the “French” of “England” | ||
| Jocelyn Wogan-Browne | 1 | ||
| Section I | Language and Socio-Linguistics | ||
| Introduction | 17 | ||
| 1 | French Language in Contact with English: Social Context and Linguistic Change (mid-13th-14th centuries) | ||
| Serge Lusignan | 19 | ||
| 2 | The Language of Complaint: Multilingualism and Petitioning in Later Medieval England | ||
| W. Mark Ormrod | 31 | ||
| 3 | The Persistence of Anglo-Norman 1230-1362: A Linguistic Perspective | ||
| Richard Ingham | 44 | ||
| 4 | Syntaxe anglo-normande: étude de certaines caractéristiques du XIIe au XIVe siècle | ||
| Pierre Kunstmann (with English summary) | 55 | ||
| 5 | “‘Fi a debles,’ quath the king”: Language Mixing in England’s Vernacular Historical Narratives, c.1290-c.1340 | ||
| Thea Summerfield | 68 | ||
| 6 | Uses of French Language in Medieval English Towns | ||
| Richard Britnell | 81 | ||
| 7 | The French of England in Female Convents: The French Kitcheners’ Accounts of Campsey Ash Priory | ||
| Marilyn Oliva | 90 | ||
| 8 | The French of England: A Maritime linguafranca? | ||
| Maryanne Kowaleski | 103 | ||
| 9 | John Barton, John Gower and Others: Variation in Late Anglo-French | ||
| Brian Merrilees and Heather Pagan | 118 | ||
| 10 | John Gower’s French and His Readers | ||
| R. F. Yeager | 135 | ||
| Section II | Crossing the Conquest: New Linguistic and Literary Histories | ||
| Introduction | 149 | ||
| 11 | “Stuffed Latin”: Vernacular Evidence in Latin Documents | ||
| David Trotter | 153 | ||
| 12 | From Old English to Old French | ||
| Elizabeth M. Tyler | 164 | ||
| 13 | Translating the “English” Past: Cultural Identity in the Estoire des Engleis | ||
| Henry Bainton | 179 | ||
| 14 | The Languages of England: Multilingualism in the Work of Wace | ||
| Françoise H. M. Le Saux | 188 | ||
| 15 | An Illustrious Vernacular: The Psalter en romanz in Twelfth-Century England | ||
| Geoff Rector | 198 | ||
| 16 | Serpent’s Head/Jew’s Hand: Le Jeu d’Adam and Christian-Jewish Debate in Norman England | ||
| Ruth Nisse | 207 | ||
| 17 | Salerno on the Thames: The Genesis of Anglo-Norman Medical Literature | ||
| Monica H. Green | 220 | ||
| Section III | After Lateran IV: rancophone Devotions and Histories | ||
| Introduction | 235 | ||
| 18 | “Cest livre liseez . . . chescun jour”: Women and Reading c.1230-c.1430 | ||
| Jocelyn Wogan-Browne | 239 | ||
| 19 | French Devotional Texts in Thirteenth-Century Preachers’ Anthologies | ||
| Helen Deeming | 254 | ||
| 20 | Augustinian Canons and their Insular French Books in Medieval England: Towards an Assessment | ||
| Jean-Pascal Pouzet | 266 | ||
| 21 | Eschuer peché, embracer bountee: Social Thought and Pastoral Instruction in Nicole Bozon | ||
| Laurie Postlewate | 278 | ||
| 22 | The Cultural Context of the French Prose remaniement of the Life of Edward the Confessor by a Nun of Barking Abbey | ||
| Delbert W. Russell | 290 | ||
| 23 | The Vitality of Anglo-Norman in Late Medieval England: The Case of the Prose Brut Cronicle | ||
| Julia Marvin | 303 | ||
| 24 | France in England: Anglo-French Culture in the Reign of Edward III | ||
| Michael Bennett | 320 | ||
| 25 | Lollardy: The Anglo-Norman Heresy? | ||
| Nicholas Watson | 334 | ||
| 26 | The Languages of Memory: The Crabhouse Nunnery Manuscript | ||
| Rebecca June | 347 | ||
| Section IV | England and French in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries | ||
| Introduction | 361 | ||
| 27 | French, English, and the Late Medieval Linguistic Repertoire | ||
| Tim William Machan | 363 | ||
| 28 | Aristotle, Translation and the Mean: Shaping the Vernacular in Late Medieval Anglo-French Culture | ||
| Carolyn Collette | 373 | ||
| 29 | Writing English in a French Penumbra: The Middle English ‘Tree of Love’ in MS Longleat 253 | ||
| Julia Boffey | 386 | ||
| 30 | The French of English Letters: Two Trilingual Verse Epistles in Context | ||
| Ad Putter | 397 | ||
| 31 | The Reception of Froissart’s Writings in England: The Evidence of the Manuscripts | ||
| Godfried Croenen | 409 | ||
| 32 | ‘Me fault faire’: French Makers of Manuscripts for English Patrons | ||
| Martha Driver | 420 | ||
| 33 | The French Self-Presentation of an English Mastiff: John Talbot’s Book of Chivalry | ||
| Andrew Taylor | 444 | ||
| 34 | A ‘Frenche booke called the Pistill of Othea’: Christine de Pizan’s French in England | ||
| Stephanie Downes | 457 | ||
| Bibliography | 469 | ||
| Index of Medieval (and Select Early Modern) Texts | 520 | ||
| Index of Medieval (and Select EArly Modern) Authors | 527 | ||
| Index of Persons and Places | 529 |