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Book SynopsisEssays on the complexity of multilingualism in medieval England. Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne's scholarship on the French of England - a term she indeed coined for the mix of linguistic, cultural, and political elements unique to the pluri-lingual situation of medieval England - is of immenseimportance to the field. The essays in this volume extend, honour and complement her path-breaking work. They consider exchanges between England and other parts of Britain, analysing how communication was effected where languagesdiffered, and probe cross-Channel relations from a new perspective. They also examine the play of features within single manuscripts, and with manuscripts in conversation with each other. And they discuss the continuing reach ofthe French of England beyond the Middle Ages: in particular, how it became newly relevant to discussions of language and nationalism in later centuries. Whether looking at primary sources such as letters and official documents, orat creative literature, both religious and secular, the contributions here offer fruitful and exciting approaches to understanding what the French of England can tell us about medieval Britain and the European world beyond. Thelma Fenster is Professor Emerita of French and Medieval Studies, Fordham University; Carolyn Collette is Professor of English Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Contributors: Christopher Baswell,Emma Campbell, Paul Cohen, Carolyn Collette, Thelma Fenster, Robert Hanning, Richard Ingham, Maryanne Kowaleski, Serge Lusignan, Thomas O'Donnell, W. Mark Ormrod, Monika Otter, Felicity Riddy, Delbert Russell, Fiona Somerset, +Robert M. Stein, Andrew Taylor, Nicholas Watson, R.F. Yeager
Trade Review[A] rich collection...[An] excellent volume. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
It is in countless ways an impressive volume. -- W. Chester Jordan * HISTORY *
[A]n indispensable resource for the study of both the 'French of England' and the culture of medieval Britain more broadly. * FRENCH STUDIES *
As the editors write in their introduction (and Felicity Riddy in her foreword), Jocelyn's work has been trailblazing, and this collection shows the richness of the vistas that she has opened up. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *
A rich and well-conceived collection that will reward readers from disciplines including literature, history, linguistics, and musicology. * PARERGON *
This excellent Festschrift offers an opportunity to reflect, not just on [Jocelyn Wogan-Browne's] career but also on the parallel field of study that has seen so much further work on French as an international medieval vernacular. * SPECULUM *
Table of ContentsForeword: "The Light I Never Left Behind": Jocelyn Wogan-Browne - Felicity Riddy Introduction: Recognizing the French of Medieval England The Gloss to Philippe de Thaon's Comput and the French of England's Beginnings - Thomas O'Donnell The Scandals of Medieval Translation: Thinking Difference in Francophone Texts and Manuscripts - Emma Campbell Contrafacture and Translation: The Prisoner's Lament - Monika C Otter Complaining about the King in French in Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England - Fiona Somerset The Chanson d'Aspremont in Bodmer 11 and Plantagenet Propaganda - Andrew Taylor The Use of Anglo-Norman in Day to Day Communication during the Anglo-Scottish Wars [1295-1314] - Serge Lusignan Middle English Borrowing from French: Nouns and Verbs of Interpersonal Cognition in the Early South English Legendary - Richard Ingham William Langland Reads Robert Grosseteste - Nicholas Watson Disability Networks in the Campsey Manuscript - Christopher Baswell English Women and Their French Books: Teaching about the Jews in Medieval England - Thelma Fenster French Residents in England at the Start of the Hundred Years War: Learning English, Speaking English and Becoming English in 1346 - W. Mark Ormrod French Immigrants and the French Language in Late Medieval England - Maryanne Kowaleski Fashioning a Useable Linguistic Past: The French of Medieval England and the Invention of a National Vernacular in Early Modern France - Paul Cohen Admiring Ambivalence: On Paul Meyer's Anglo-Norman Scholarship - Delbert W. Russell Twenty-First Century Gower: The Theology of Marriage in John Gower's Traitié and the Turn toward French - Robert F. Yeager Royaumes sans frontières: the Place of England in the Long Twelfth Century - Robert Stein Afterword - Robert W Hanning Bibliography - Felicity Riddy Index Bibliography of the Writings of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
