Language and Culture in Medieval Britain

CAROLYN COLLETTE is an American literary critic whose work has focused on late Medieval Anglo-French literary culture. She is Professor Emerita of English literature at Mount Holyoke College. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history. R.F. YEAGER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Language, University of West Florida. NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular. CAROLYN COLLETTE is an American literary critic whose work has focused on late Medieval Anglo-French literary culture. She is Professor Emerita of English literature at Mount Holyoke College. JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. ANDREW TAYLOR is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.

[T]his volume is a major contribution both to the study of French (continental as well as insular) and English language and culture in the Middle Ages.

• IntroductionFrench Language in Contact with English: Social Context and Linguistic Change (mid 13th-14th centuries) - Serge LusignanThe Language of Complaint: Multilingualism and Petitioning in Later Medieval England - W. Mark OrmrodThe Persistence of Anglo-Norman 1230-1362: A Linguistic Perspective - Richard InghamSyntaxe anglo-normande: étude de certaines caractéristiques du XIIe au XIVe siècle [with English summary] - Pierre Kunstmann'"Fi a debles," quath the king.' Language Mixing in England's Vernacular Historical Narratives, c.1290 - c. 1340 - Thea SummerfieldUses of French Language in Medieval English Towns - Richard H BritnellThe French of England in Female Convents: The French Kitcheners' Accounts of Campsey Ash Priory - Marilyn OlivaThe French of England: A Maritime lingua franca? - Maryanne KowaleskiJohn Barton, John Gower and Others: Variation in Late Anglo-French - Heather Pagan and Brian MerrileesJohn Gower's French and his Readers - Robert F. Yeager'Stuffed Latin': Vernacular Evidence in Latin Documents - D A TrotterFrom Old English to Old French - Elizabeth M. TylerTranslating the 'English' Past: Cultural Identity in the Estoire des Engleis - Henry BaintonThe Languages of England: Multilingualism in the Work of Wace - Francoise H M Le SauxAn Illustrious Vernacular: The Psalter en romanz in Twelfth-Century England - Geoff RectorSerpent's Head/Jew's Hand: Le Jeu d'Adam and Christian-Jewish Debate in Norman England - Ruth NisseSalerno on The Thames: The Genesis of Anglo-Norman Medical Literature - Monica Green'Cest livre liseez...chescun jour': Women and Reading c.1230-c.1430 - Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneFrench Devotional Texts in Thirteenth-Century Preachers' Anthologies - Helen DeemingAugustinian Canons and their Insular French Books in Medieval England: Towards An Assessment - Jean-Pascal PouzetEschuer peché, embracer bountee: Social Thought and Pastoral Instruction in Nicole Bozon - Laurie PostlewateThe Cultural Context of the French Prose remaniement of the Life of Edward the Confessor by a Nun of Barking Abbey - Delbert W. RussellThe Vitality of Anglo-Norman in Late-Medieval England: The Case of the Prose Brut Chronicle - Julia MarvinFrance in England: Anglo-French Culture in the Reign of Edward III - Lollardy: The Anglo-Norman Heresy? - Nicholas WatsonThe Languages of Memory: The Crabhouse Nunnery Manuscript - Rebecca JuneFrench, English and the Late-Medieval Linguistic Repertoire - T W MachanAristotle, Translation and the Mean: Shaping the Vernacular in Late Medieval Anglo-French Culture - Carolyn P ColletteWriting English in a French Penumbra: The Middle English 'Tree of Love' in MS Longleat 253 - Julia BoffeyThe French of English Letters: Two Trilingual Verse Epistles in Context - Ad PutterThe Reception of Froissart's Writings in England: The Evidence of the Manuscripts - G Croenen'Me fault faire': French Makers of Manuscripts for English Patrons - Martha W. DriverThe French Self-Presentation of an English Mastiff: John Talbot's Book of Chivalry - Andrew TaylorA 'Frenche booke called the Pistill of Othea': Christine de Pizan's French in England - Stephanie DownesBibliography