Language and Culture 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 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 so far received. The essays in 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