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Playing ‘follow my leader’ in Anglo-Norman studies1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

William Rothwell
William Rothwell
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Abstract

Throughout the present century the nature of Anglo-Norman and its role in the history of both French and English has been misunderstood and misrepresented by the endless repetition at second hand of views that have their origin in the nineteenth–century ‘reconstructionist’ movement in French philology. Evidence readily available from original sources of many kinds shows that the French used in England between the Conquest and the end of the fourteenth century is at once a more complex and far more important phenomenon than current writing on the subject would suggest, especially as regards the history of the English language.

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Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , September 1996 , pp. 177 - 210
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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