English and French in England After 1362
- Author / Editor
- Rothwell, W[illiam].
English and French in England After 1362
- Published
- English Studies 82: 539-59, 2001.
- Description
- Anglo-Norman should be considered "a coherent, if constantly changing, entity from 1066 to the middle of the fifteenth century" (559), with widely different forms that influenced English in the fifteenth-century, when scribes were working both in English and French. In the GP portrait of Chaucer's Sergeant of the Lawe, many French legal terms have meanings particular to their use in England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Man of Law and His Tale.