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General introduction: What's in a name : the 'French' of 'England' / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne -- Language and socio-linguistics: French language in contact with English : social context and linguistic change (mid-13th-14th centuries) / Serge Lusignan. Language of complaint : multilingualism and petitioning in later medieval England / W. Mark Ormrod. Persistence of Anglo-Norman 1230-1362 : a linguistic perspective / Richard Ingham. Syntaxe anglo-normande : etude de certaines caracteristiques du XIIe au XIVe siecle / Pierre Kunstmann. '"Fi a debles," quath the king' : language mixing in England's vernacular historical narratives, c.1290-c.1340 / Thea Summerfield. Uses of French language in medieval English towns / Richard Britnell. French of England in female convents : the French kitcheners' accounts of Campsey Ash Priory / Marilyn Oliva. French of England : a maritime lingua franca? / Maryanne Kowaleski. John Barton, John Gower and others : variation in late Anglo-French / Brian Merrilees and Heather Pagan. John Gower's French and his readers / R. F. Yeager -- Crossing the conquest : new linguistic and literary histories: 'Stuffed Latin' : vernacular evidence in Latin documents / David Trotter. From old English to old French / Elizabeth M. Tyler. Translating the 'English' past : cultural identity in the Estoire des Engleis / Henry Bainton. Languages of England : multilingualism in the work of Wace / Francoise H. M. Le Saux. Illustrious vernacular : the Psalter en romanz in twelfth-century England / Geoff Rector . Serpent's head/Jew's hand : Le Jeu d'Adam and Christian-Jewish debate in Norman England / Ruth Nisse. Salerno on the Thames : the genesis of Anglo-Norman medical literature / Monica H. Green -- After Lateran IV : francophone devotions and histories: 'Cest livre liseez ... chescun jour' : women and reading c.1230-c.1430 / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. French devotional texts in thirteenth-century preachers' anthologies / Helen Deeming. Augustinian canons and their insular French books in medieval England : towards an assessment / Jean-Pascal Pouzet. Eschuer peche, embracer bountee : social thought and pastoral instruction in Nicole Bozon / Laurie Postlewate. Cultural context of the French prose remaniement of the life of Edward the Confessor by a nun of Barking Abbey / Delbert W. Russell. Vitality of Anglo-Norman in late medieval England : the case of the prose Brut chronicle / Julia Marvin. France in England : Anglo-French culture in the reign of Edward III / Michael Bennett. Lollardy : the Anglo-Norman heresy? / Nicholas Watson. Languages of memory : the Crabhouse Nunnery manuscript / Rebecca June -- England and French in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: French, English, and the late medieval linguistic repertoire / Tim William Machan. Aristotle, translation and the mean : shaping the vernacular in late medieval Anglo-French culture / Carolyn Collette. Writing English in a French penumbra : the middle English 'Tree of love' in MS Longleat 253 / Julia Boffey. French of English letters : two trilingual verse epistles in context / Ad Putter. Reception of Froissart's writings in England : the evidence of the manuscripts / Godfried Croenen. 'Me fault faire' : French makers of manuscripts for English patrons / Martha W. Driver. French self-presentation of an English mastiff : John Talbot's Book of chivalry / Andrew Taylor. 'Frenche booke called the Pistill of Othea' : Christine de Pizan's French in England / Stephanie Downes. |
