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A history of the French language through texts

Author: Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Wendy Ayres-Bennett
ISBN: 0415099994 9780415099998 0415100003 9780415100007
OCLC Number: 32894945
Language Note: In English with some French text.
Description: vi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: I. The language of the earliest texts (AD 842 to the end of the 11th century). 1. The Strasbourg Oaths (842): the earliest vernacular text. 2. The Sequence of Saint Eulalia (c. 880-82). 3. Extract from the Bilingual Sermon on Jonah (c. 937-52). 4. La Vie de Saint Alexis (mid-11th century) --
II. The 'heyday' of Old French (French in the 12th and 13th centuries). 5. La Chanson de Roland (early 12th century). 6. Le Chevalier de la charrette (c. 1177-81). 7. Le Jeu de saint Nicolas (c. 1200). 8. The Old French Bible (first half of the 13th century). 9. Geoffroy de Villehardouin, The Conquest of Constantinople (early 13th century). 10. The Lettre d'Hippocrate (mid-13th century). 11. Donation testamentaire (1239). 12. Lettre de Jean Sarrasin a Nicolas Arrode (23 June 1249) --
III. Middle French (French in the 14th and 15th centuries). 13. Cent nouvelles nouvelles (mid-15th century). 14. Alain Chartier, Le Quadrilogue invectif (1422). 15. Le Testament Villon (mid-15th century).
Responsibility: Wendy Ayres-Bennett.

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