5 options
French lessons in late-Medieval England : The "Liber Donati" and "Commune Parlance" / Arc Humanities Press.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- ARC Humanities Press, author, issuing body.
- Series:
- ARC - Foundations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--History.
- Education.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic resource (181 p.)
- Edition:
- 1ST ED.
- Other Title:
- French Lessons in Late-Medieval England
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Arc Humanities Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Critten Rory G. : Rory G. Critten teaches medieval literature in the English Department at the University of Lausanne. His recent publications treat French teaching in medieval England, medieval English multilingualism, and the cultural history of the medieval home.
- Summary:
- French Lessons in Late-Medieval England presents two fifteenth-century manuals designed to support facility in French among the English, the Liber donati and Commune parlance. These texts treat the grammar, lexis, and orthography of French as well as compiling a selection of entertaining dialogues that model the language in action. Together, they paint a vivid picture of the kinds of French that English learners might desire to wield and of the high levels of fluency that they could achieve. Critten's comprehensive introduction discusses his materials' relevance both for histories of language education and for recent reassessments of the longevity of French in medieval England. His pairing of first-time modern-English translations with facing-page original text makes these fascinating works newly available for a twenty-first-century audience.
- Contents:
- Series Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction, incl. Further Reading, and Using this Volume
- Liber donati
- Commune parlance
- Commentary and Notes
- Textual Notes
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Worldcat, viewed March 29, 2023).
- OCLC:
- 1374520826
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.