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French Lessons in Late-Medieval England : The Liber Donati and Commune Parlance.

These teaching and reference materials paint a vivid picture of the kinds of French that medieval English learners might desire to wield and of the high levels of fluency they could achieve.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Critten, Rory G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Foundations - ARC Series
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Table of Contents:
  • COVER
  • Contents
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The Teaching and Reference Materials and the Currency of French
  • Teachers and Learners: Identities, Aims, Locations
  • Teachers and Learners: Methods and Outcomes
  • The Liber donati and Commune parlance: Topics and Texts
  • The Liber donati and Commune parlance: Manuscript Context
  • Early Modern Developments
  • Further Reading
  • Using This Volume
  • LIBER DONATI
  • PART A: GRAMMAR, PRONUNCIATION AND LEXIS
  • [1. Personal and demonstrative pronouns and adjectives]
  • [2. Pronunciation, spelling, and morphological notes]
  • [3. Conjugated verbs with pronunciation, spelling, and morphological notes]
  • [4. French infinitives with Latin equivalents]
  • [5. Adverbs, prepositions, and other parts of speech with French equivalents]
  • [6. Days of the week and feast days]
  • [7. Cardinal and ordinal numbers]
  • PART B: DIALOGUES
  • [1. Salutations]
  • [2. News from France]
  • [3. En route to London]
  • [4. Securing lodging
  • provisions for horses]
  • [5. A conversation with the lady of the house]
  • [6. Further provisions for horses]
  • [7. Paying the bill]
  • [8. The market at Winchester]
  • [9. A mother's request for help]
  • [10. A would-be apprentice's French]
  • COMMUNE PARLANCE
  • [1. Opening prayer]
  • [2. The human body]
  • [3. Furnishing a house]
  • [4. Going on a journey]
  • [4.1. Preparations]
  • [4.2. The good-bye meal]
  • [4.3. On the road
  • asking the way and the time]
  • [4.4. A love song]
  • [4.5. Janyn at the inn]
  • [4.6. At the market
  • fish]
  • [4.7. Evening at the inn
  • a story]
  • [5. The digger and the gardener]
  • [6. The baker and his apprentice]
  • [7. The draper and his apprentice]
  • [8. At the dubber's]
  • [9. Two stable boys]
  • [10. Different greetings
  • news from Orleans]
  • [11. Consoling a child].
  • [12. Turning away a beggar]
  • [13. Two companions at an inn]
  • [14. Dialogues between traders]
  • [15. Asking the time and the way]
  • [16. Asking for lodging
  • giving a message]
  • [17. At the scrivener's]
  • [18. Asking the way
  • delivering a present]
  • [19. Different greetings according to the time of day]
  • [20. Dialogue with an ill man]
  • [21. Dialogue with a foreigner]
  • [22. A tailor and his new master]
  • [23. Two companions at an inn again]
  • Commentary and Notes
  • Textual Notes
  • Bibliography.

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