Bibliography
Essential Secondary Sources
DictionariesLanguage Training Manuals, Reference Guides, Histories
Guides to Literature
Important Journals and Series
Language and Sociolinguistic Studies
Literary, Historical, Cultural
For editions, translations, and manuscript texts of all known works in the French of England,
see:
Dean, Ruth J., with the collaboration of Maureen B.M. Boulton. Anglo-Norman
Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts. London: Anglo-Norman
Text Society, 1999. OPS 3. Indispensable.
Dictionaries
An Anglo-Norman Dictionary, ed. Louise W. Stone, William Rothwell, et al. London: MHRA, 1977-92. The most comprehensive dictionary of Anglo-Norman so far, though now difficult to findGodefroy, F. Dictionnaire de l'ancien français et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle, 10 vols. Paris, 1880-1902
Gransaignes d'Hauterive, R. Dictionnaire d'ancien français. Paris: Larousse, 1947.
Greimas, A-J. Dictionnaire de l'ancien français: Le Moyen Age. Paris: Larousse, 1995.
-------, and T. M. Keane. Dictionnaire du moyen français: La Renaissance. Paris: Larousse, 1992.
Tobler, Adolf, and E. Lommatszsch, Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch. Bonn, Basel, Leipzig, 1928-
Language Training Manuals, Reference Guides, Histories
For a brief overview, see "French Language," in An Encyclopaedia of Medieval France, ed. W.W. Kibler (New York: Garland, 1995), pp. 370-74.
Einhorn, E. Old French: A Concise Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Fouché, Pierre. Phonétique historique du français. 3 vols. Paris: Klincksieck, 1952.
Kibler, W.W. An Introduction to Old French New York: MLA, 1984
Pope, M.K. From Latin to Modern French with Especial Consideration of Anglo-Norman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934. Reprint:
Guides to Literature
Calin, William W. The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.Legge, M. Dominica, Anglo-Norman in the Cloisters. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1950.
-------. Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963.
Vising, Johann. Anglo-Norman Language and Literature. London: Oxford University Press, 1923
Important Journals and Series
Anglo-Norman Studies: Proceedings of the Battle Abbey Conferences. The year cited in the title of individual volumes is not usually the year of publication; special care is needed in referring to this fundamental journal.Haskins Society Journal High-quality source of historical articles in the period.
Medium Aevum. Primarily literary. Middle English, French, and other languages.
Modern Language Review
Romania The journal where most texts in the French of England were first published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Continues to publish valuable editions of shorter texts.
Thirteenth-Century England. Well-respected annually published series.
The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies Reviews of all new work in the subject; very well-organized.
Language and Sociolinguistic Studies
Berndt, Rolf. "The Linguistic Situation in England from the Norman Conquest to the Loss of Normandy (1066-1204)." In Approaches to Historical Linguistics: An Anthology, ed. Roger Lass. New York: 1969. Pp. 369-81-------."The Period of the Final Decline of French in Medieval England (Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries)" Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 20 (1972): 341-69.
Clark, Cecily. "Women's Names in Post-Conquest England: Observations and Speculations," Speculum 53 (1978): 223-51
Crane, Susan. "Social Aspects of Bilingualism in the Thirteenth Century," Thirteenth Century England 6 (1997): 103-116
Frankis, John. "The Social Context of Vernacular Writing in Thirteenth Century England: The Evidence of the Manuscripts," Thirteenth-Century England 1 (1986): 175-184
Kibbee, Douglas A. "Historical Perspectives on the Place of Anglo-Norman in the History of the French Language." French Studies 54 (2000): 137-53
-------. For to Speke French Trewely: The French Language in England 1000-1600: Description and Instruction. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991.
Lodge, R.A. French: From Dialect to Standard. London: Routledge, 1993.
-------."Language Attitudes and Linguistic Norms in France and England in the Thirteenth Century," Thirteenth Century England 4 (1991): 73-83
Porter, David W. "The Earliest Texts with English and French," Anglo-Saxon England (1999): 87-110
Romaine, Suzanne. Bilingualism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
Rothwell, W. "The 'Faus franceis d'Angleterre': Later Anglo-Norman." In Anglo-Norman Anniversary Essays ANTS OP 2. London, 1993. Pp. 309-26
-------."The Role of French in Thirteenth-Century England," Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 58 (1975): 445-66
-------."The Teaching of French in Medieval England," Modern Language Review 63 (1968): 37-46
Short, Ian. "Tam Angli Quam Franci: Self-Definition in Anglo-Norman England" Anglo-Norman Studies 18 (1995): 153-75
------- "On Bilingualism in Anglo-Norman England," Romanische Philologie 33 (1979-80): 467-79
Wilson, R.M. "English and French in England 1100-1300," History 28 (1943): 37-60
Literary, Historical, and Cultural
Barlow, Frank. The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216. London and New York: Longman, 1955-99 (5 editions).Bates, David and Anne Curry, eds. England and Normandy in the Middle Ages. London: 1994.
Chibnall, Marjorie. Anglo-Norman England 1066-1166. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.
-------. The Debate on the Norman Conquest. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
Clanchy, M.T. England and Its Rulers 1066-1272, 2nd. ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
-------.From Memory to Written Record 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Crane, Susan. "Anglo-Norman Cultures." In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David Wallace, 35-60. Cambridge, 1999
-------. Insular Romance: Politics, Faith, and Culture in Anglo-Norman and Middle English Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Delano-Smith, Catherine, and Roger J.P. Kain. English Maps: A History. London: British Library, 1999.
Edson, Evelyn. Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World. London: British Library, 1999.
Field, Rosalind. "Romance in England, 1066-1400," in The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David Wallace, 152-76. Cambridge, 1999.
Foulet, Alfred, and Mary Blakely Speer. On Editing Old French Texts. Lawrence, 1979.
Frankis, P. John. "The Social Context of Vernacular Writing in the Thirteenth Century: The Evidence of the Manuscripts," Thirteenth Century England I, 175-84.
Galloway, Andrew. "Writing History in England," in The Cambridge History of Medieval Literature, ed. David Wallace, 255-83 (Cambridge, 1999)
Georgianna, Linda. "Coming to Terms with the Norman Conquest: Nationalism and English Literary History," Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 14, Literature and the Nation, ed. Brook Thomas, 33-53 (Tübingen, 1998)
Gillingham, John. "The Context and Purposes of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain," ANS 13 (1990): 99-118
Hastings, Adrian. The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Higham, N.J. The Norman Conquest. Sutton Pocket Histories. Phoenix Mill (UK), 1995.
Jeffrey, David L. and Brian J. Levy, ed. and trans. The Anglo-Norman Lyric: An Anthology. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1990.
Johnson, Lesley. "Imagining Communities: Medieval and Modern." In Concepts of National Identity in the Middle Ages, ed. Simon Forde and Lesley Johnson. Leeds, 1995. Pp 1-20.
Laurent, Françoise. Plaire et édifier: Les récits hagiographiques composés en Angleterre aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles. Paris: Champion, 1998.
Lewis, C.P. "The French in England before the Norman Conquest," ANS 17 (1994): 123-39.
Nicholls, Jonathan. The Matter of Courtesy: Medieval Courtesy Books and the Gawain-Poet. Woodbridge: Brewer, 1985.
Otter, Monika. Inventiones: Fiction and Referentiality in Twelfth-Century English Historical Writing. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Partner, Nancy. Serious Entertainments: The Writing of History in Twelfth-Century England. Chicago and London: 1977.
Rollo, David. Historical Fabrication, Ethic Fable, and French Romance in Twelfth-Century England, Edward C. Armstrong Monographs on Medieval Literature 9. Lexington: French Forum Publishers, 1998.
Schmolke-Hasselmann, Beata. The Evolution of Arthurian Romance: The Verse Tradition from Chrétien to Froissart, tr. Margaret and Roger Middleton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Shopkow, Leah. History and Community: Norman Historical Writing in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1997.
Short, Ian. "Patrons and Polyglots: French Literature in Twelfth-Century England," ANS 14 (1991): 229-49
Spiegel, Gabrielle. Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
-------."Pseudo-Turpin, The Crisis of the Aristocracy, and the Beginnings of Vernacular Historiography in France," Journal of Medieval History 12 (1986): 207-23.
Stafford, Pauline. "Women and the Norman Conquest," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., vol. 4 (1994): 221-49.
-------.Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women’s Power in Eleventh-Century England. Oxford and Malden, Mass., 1997.
van Houts, Elizabeth. The Normans in Europe. Manchester Medieval Sources Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
van Emden, Wolfgang. La Chanson de Roland. Critical guides to French texts 113. Grant & Cutler, 1995. Very useful intro to text, with exhaustive bibliography.
Walker, David. The Normans in Britain. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass., 1995.
Warren, Michelle R. History on the Edge: Excalibur and the Borders of Britain, 1100-1300. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.