French of Medieval England

CAROLYN COLLETTE is an American literary critic whose work has focused on late Medieval Anglo-French literary culture. She is Professor Emerita of English literature at Mount Holyoke College. ANDREW TAYLOR is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular. R.F. YEAGER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Language, University of West Florida. THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA. The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.

• Foreword: "The Light I Never Left Behind": Jocelyn Wogan-Browne - Felicity RiddyIntroduction: Recognizing the French of Medieval EnglandThe Gloss to Philippe de Thaon's Comput and the French of England's Beginnings - Thomas O'DonnellThe Scandals of Medieval Translation: Thinking Difference in Francophone Texts and Manuscripts - Emma CampbellContrafacture and Translation: The Prisoner's Lament - Monika C OtterComplaining about the King in French in Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England - Fiona SomersetThe Chanson d'Aspremont in Bodmer 11 and Plantagenet Propaganda - Andrew TaylorThe Use of Anglo-Norman in Day to Day Communication during the Anglo-Scottish Wars [1295-1314] - Serge LusignanMiddle English Borrowing from French: Nouns and Verbs of Interpersonal Cognition in the Early South English Legendary - Richard InghamWilliam Langland Reads Robert Grosseteste - Nicholas WatsonDisability Networks in the Campsey Manuscript - Christopher BaswellEnglish Women and Their French Books: Teaching about the Jews in Medieval England - Thelma FensterFrench Residents in England at the Start of the Hundred Years War: Learning English, Speaking English and Becoming English in 1346 - W. Mark OrmrodFrench Immigrants and the French Language in Late Medieval England - Maryanne KowaleskiFashioning a Useable Linguistic Past: The French of Medieval England and the Invention of a National Vernacular in Early Modern France - Paul CohenAdmiring Ambivalence: On Paul Meyer's Anglo-Norman Scholarship - Delbert W. RussellTwenty-First Century Gower: The Theology of Marriage in John Gower's Traitié and the Turn toward French - Robert F. YeagerRoyaumes sans frontières: the Place of England in the Long Twelfth Century - Robert SteinAfterword - Robert W HanningBibliography - Felicity RiddyIndexBibliography of the Writings of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

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