The richness of thirteenth-century French literary culture in England has been partly acknowledged in various ways, notably by scholars of Middle English romance, some of whom have long studied the interrelations between their texts and the francophone romances that precede and continue alongside them. The field continues to be vigorous, but there is still much fascinating work to be done. Beyond romance, still more work remains in integrating the large corpus of French devotional and doctrinal writing that both precedes the fourth Lateran Council and intensifies after it. What was once supposed to be a period in which there was a gap in the production of vernacular pastoralia while English was ‘underground’ is in fact full of francophone texts. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne argues here for continuities in this reading culture from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries: there is no need to wait until the English texts of the late fourteenth century to investigate lay and clerical relations in the devotional and doctrinal vernacular texts produced in order to form the confessionally articulated self. Helen Deeming and Jean-Pascal Pouzet, working with the different broad corpora they have studied in depth (respectively, manuscripts with musical notation and manuscripts associated with the Augustinians), show how important the Frenchness of Latin clerical culture is in the religious writings of thirteenth-century England. Laurie Postlewate gives an account of the fascinating socio-political aspects of the writings of Nicolas Bozon, one of the most varied and prolific Franciscan friars writing in England, whose wide range of devotional, doctrinal and satirical works was composed in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.