Language and culture in medieval Britain : the French of England, c.1100-c.1500 / edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne with Carolyn Collette [and others].
"England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the Middle Ages than our now standard accounts of its history, culture and language allow. The French of England (also known as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-French) is the language of nearly a thousand literary texts, of much administration, and...
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| Other title: | French of England, c.1100-c.1500 |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
York Medieval Press,
[2009]
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| Summary: | "England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the Middle Ages than our now standard accounts of its history, culture and language allow. The French of England (also known as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-French) is the language of nearly a thousand literary texts, of much administration, and of many professions and occupations. English literary, linguistic and documentary history is deeply interwoven both with a continually evolving spectrum of Frenches used within and outside the realm, and cannot be fully grasped in isolation. The essays in this volume open up and begin writing a new cultural history focussed on, but not confined to, the presence and interactions of francophone speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the eleventh to the later fifteenth centuries. They return us to a newly-alive, multi-vocal, complexly multi-cultural medieval England, in which the use of French and its interrelations with English and other languages involve many diverse groups of people. The volume's size testifies to the significance of England's francophone culture, while its chronological range shows the need for revision across the whole span of our existing narratives about medieval English linguistic and cultural history"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 533 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-519) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781846157400 1846157404 |