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

The essays in this volume form a new cultural history focused round, but not confined to, the presence and interactions of francophone speakers, writers, reader

he French presence in English literary history in the centuries following the Conquest has to some extent been glossed over or treated as an interlude. During t

The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Roland to Caxton.

A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.