French of Medieval England
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781843844594
Subjects: French language; Anglo-norman dialect; Language and culture; Multilingualism
Description: Recent research has emphasised the importance of insular French in medieval English culture alongside English and Latin; for a period of some four hundred years, French (variously labelled the French of England, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-French, and Insular French) rivalled these two languages. The essays here focus on linguistic adaptation and translation in this new multilingual England, where John Gower wrote in Latin while his contemporary Chaucer could break new ground in English.