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The French of medieval England : essays in honour of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne /

Recent research has emphasised the importance of insular French in medieval English culture alongside English and Latin; for a period of some four hundred years, French (variously labelled the French of England, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-French, and Insular French) rivalled these two languages. The essays...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fenster, Thelma S. (Editor ), Collette, Carolyn P. (Editor ), Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Foreword: 'The Light I Never Left Behind': Jocelyn Wogan-Browne; Introduction: Recognizing the French of Medieval England; 1. The Gloss to Philippe de Thaon's Comput and the French of England's Beginnings; 2. The Scandals of Medieval Translation: Thinking Difference in Francophone Texts and Manuscripts; 3. Contrafacture and Translation: The Prisoner's Lament; 4. Complaining about the King in French in Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England.
  • 5. The Chanson d'Aspremont in Bodmer 11 and Plantagenet Propaganda6. The Use of Anglo-Norman in Day-to-Day Communication during the Anglo-Scottish Wars (1295-1314); 7. Middle English Borrowing from French: Nouns and Verbs of Interpersonal Cognition in the Early South English Legendary; 8. William Langland Reads Robert Grosseteste; 9. Disability Networks in the Campsey Manuscript; 10. English Women and Their French Books: Teaching about the Jews in Medieval England.
  • 11. French Residents in England at the Start of the Hundred Years War: Learning English, Speaking English and Becoming English in 134612. French Immigrants and the French Language in Late-Medieval England; 13. Fashioning a Useable Linguistic Past: The French of Medieval England and the Invention of a National Vernacular in Early Modern France; 14. Admiring Ambivalence: on Paul Meyer's Anglo-Norman Scholarship; 15. Twenty-First Century Gower: The Theology of Marriage in John Gower's Traitié and the Turn toward French.
  • 16. Royaumes sans frontières: The Place of England in the Long Twelfth CenturyAfterword; Bibliography; Index; Publications of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne; Tabula Gratulatoria.