Groundbreaking surveys of the complex interrelationship between the languages of English and French in medieval Britain.

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 IIILollardy: 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