Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Thelma Fenster Delbert Russell
The use of French ("Anglo-Norman") in medieval England, and its intricate relationship with the use of English and Latin, is increasingly a focus of scholarly interest and activity, with the idea that there was multilingualism in all three tongues now generally accepted as a model. However, the study of this multilingualism has been hampered by a lack of language skills, and a reader from which to teach them. This is the gap the book proposed here seeks to fill. It offers a comprehensive selection of texts with facing translation, with full commentary and notes; an introduction; and other...
The use of French ("Anglo-Norman") in medieval England, and its intricate relationship with the use of English and Latin, is increasingly a focus o...
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 immense importance 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 languages differed, and probe cross-Channel relations from a new perspective. They also examine the play of features within single manuscripts, and...
Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne's scholarship on the French of England - a term she indeed coined for the mix of linguistic, cultural, and political el...
