Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.

Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.

The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of medieval French used in the British Isles), and the role it played in the life of the medieval English kingdom, is currently a major topic of scholarly debate. The essays in this volume examine it from a variety of different perspectives and contexts, though with a concentration on the theme of linguistic contact between Anglo-Norman and English, seeking to situate it more precisely in space and time than has hitherto been the case. Overall they show how Anglo-Norman retained a strong presence in the linguistic life of England until a strikingly late date, and how it constitutes a rich and highly valuable record of theFrench language in the middle ages.

Contributors: Richard Ingham, Anthony Lodge, William Rothwell, David Trotter, Mark Chambers, Louise Sylvester, Anne Curry, Adrian Bell, Adam Chapman, Andy King, David Simpkin, Paul Brand, Jean-Pascal Pouzet, Laura Wright, Eric Haeberli.

Introduction. Anglo-Norman: New Themes, New Contexts - Richard Ingham
Later Anglo-Norman as a Contact Variety of French - Richard Ingham
The Sources of Standardisation in French - Written or Spoken? - Anthony Lodge
'Husbonderie' and 'Manaungerie' in Later Medieval England: A Tale of Two Walters - W Rothwell
Bridging the Gap: The [Socio]Linguistic Evidence of Some Medieval English Bridge Accounts - D A Trotter
Fromapareil towarderobe: Some Observations on Anglo-French in The Middle English Lexis of Cloth and Clothing - Louise Sylvester
Fromapareil towarderobe: Some Observations on Anglo-French in The Middle English Lexis of Cloth and Clothing - Mark C Chambers
Languages in the Military Profession in Later Medieval England - Anne Curry and Adam Chapman and Adrian R. Bell
The Language of the English Legal Profession: The Emergence of a Distinctive Legal Lexicon in Insular French - Paul Brand
Mapping Insular French Texts? Ideas for Localisation and Correlated Dialectology in Manuscript Materials of Medieval England - Jean-Pascal Pouzet
A Pilot Study on the Singular Definite Articlesle andla in Fifteenth-Century London Mixed-Language Business Writing - Laura Wright
Investigating Anglo-Norman Influence on Late Middle English Syntax - Eric Haeberli
The Transmission of Later Anglo-Norman: Some Syntactic Evidence - Richard Ingham