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Henry of Lancaster and Geoffrey Chaucer: Anglo-French and middle English in fourteenth-century England.
From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20040401
Author:Rothwell, W.
The study of Middle English and that of medieval English history need to take account of the trilingual character of the civilization of medieval England, especially the pervading influence of Anglo-French between 1066 and about 1450. Specialists in medieval French have failed to offer their colleagues dealing with English a coherent and comprehensible picture of this Anglo-French element, on account of their traditional concentration on the questionable phonological aspect of its limited early literary legacy to the detriment of the lexis and semantics of the much greater mass of ...
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