ADAM CHAPMAN, General Editor, Victoria County History, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London Anne Curry is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton, and author of many works on the Hundred Years War, particularly on the battle of Agincourt. She also edited the 1422-53 section of the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England. Laura Wright is a Reader in English Language at the University of Cambridge, where she works on the history of English.

• Introduction. Anglo-Norman: New Themes, New Contexts - Richard InghamLater Anglo-Norman as a Contact Variety of French - Richard InghamThe Sources of Standardisation in French - Written or Spoken? - Anthony Lodge'Husbonderie' and 'Manaungerie' in Later Medieval England: A Tale of Two Walters - W RothwellBridging the Gap: The [Socio]Linguistic Evidence of Some Medieval English Bridge Accounts - D A TrotterFrom apareil to warderobe: Some Observations on Anglo-French in The Middle English Lexis of Cloth and Clothing - Louise SylvesterFrom apareil to warderobe: Some Observations on Anglo-French in The Middle English Lexis of Cloth and Clothing - Mark C ChambersLanguages in the Military Profession in Later Medieval England - Anne Curry and Adam Chapman and Adrian R. BellThe Language of the English Legal Profession: The Emergence of a Distinctive Legal Lexicon in Insular French - Paul BrandMapping Insular French Texts? Ideas for Localisation and Correlated Dialectology in Manuscript Materials of Medieval England - Jean-Pascal PouzetA Pilot Study on the Singular Definite Articles le and la in Fifteenth-Century London Mixed-Language Business Writing - Laura WrightInvestigating Anglo-Norman Influence on Late Middle English Syntax - Eric HaeberliThe Transmission of Later Anglo-Norman: Some Syntactic Evidence - Richard Ingham

[A] significant intervention in current debates surrounding Anglo-Norman's status and development, demonstrating the continuing vitality of French in England into the later Middle Ages.