Groundbreaking surveys of the complex interrelationship between the languages of English and French 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 withinand 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 essaysin 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

IntroductionFrench Language in Contact with English: Social Context and Linguistic Change (mid 13th-14th centuries) - Serge LusignanThe Language of Complaint: Multilingualism and Petitioning in Later Medieval England - W. Mark OrmrodThe Persistence of Anglo-Norman 1230-1362: A Linguistic Perspective - Richard InghamSyntaxe anglo-normande: étude de certaines caractéristiques du XIIe au XIVe siècle [with English summary] - Pierre Kunstmann'"Fi a debles," quath the king.' Language Mixing in England's Vernacular Historical Narratives, c.1290 - c. 1340 - Thea SummerfieldUses of French Language in Medieval English Towns - Richard H BritnellThe French of England in Female Convents: The French Kitcheners' Accounts of Campsey Ash Priory - Marilyn OlivaThe French of England: A Maritime lingua franca? - Maryanne KowaleskiJohn Barton, John Gower and Others: Variation in Late Anglo-French - Brian Merrilees and Heather PaganJohn Gower's French and his Readers - Robert F. Yeager"Stuffed Latin": Vernacular Evidence in Latin Documents - D A TrotterFrom Old English to Old French - Elizabeth M. TylerTranslating the 'English' Past: Cultural Identity in the Estoire des Engleis - Henry BaintonThe Languages of England: Multilingualism in the Work of Wace - Francoise H M Le SauxAn Illustrious Vernacular: The Psalter en romanz in Twelfth-Century England - Geoff RectorSerpent's Head/Jew's Hand: Le Jeu d'Adam and Christian-Jewish Debate in Norman England - Ruth NisseSalerno on The Thames: The Genesis of Anglo-Norman Medical Literature - Monica Green'Cest livre liseez...chescun jour': Women and Reading c.1230-c.1430 - Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneFrench Devotional Texts in Thirteenth-Century Preachers' Anthologies - Helen DeemingAugustinian Canons and their Insular French Books in Medieval England: Towards An Assessment - Jean-Pascal PouzetEschuer peché, embracer bountee: Social Thought and Pastoral Instruction in Nicole Bozon - Laurie PostlewateThe Cultural Context of the French Prose remaniement of the Life of Edward the Confessor by a Nun of Barking Abbey - Alain RicardThe Vitality of Anglo-Norman in Late-Medieval England: The Case of the Prose Brut Chronicle - Julia MarvinFrance in England: Anglo-French Culture in the Reign of Edward III - Lollardy: The Anglo-Norman Heresy? - Nicholas WatsonThe Languages of Memory: The Crabhouse Nunnery Manuscript - Rebecca JuneFrench, English and the Late-Medieval Linguistic Repertoire - T W MachanAristotle, Translation and the Mean: Shaping the Vernacular in Late Medieval Anglo-French Culture - Carolyn P ColletteWriting English in a French Penumbra: The Middle English 'Tree of Love' in MS Longleat 253 - Julia BoffeyThe French of English Letters: Two Trilingual Verse Epistles in Context - Ad PutterThe Reception of Froissart's Writings in England: The Evidence of the Manuscripts - G Croenen'Me fault faire': French Makers of Manuscripts for English Patrons - Martha W. DriverThe French Self-Presentation of an English Mastiff: John Talbot's Book of Chivalry - Andrew TaylorA 'Frenche booke called the Pistill of Othea': Christine de Pizan's French in England - Stephanie DownesBibliography