Anglo-Norman literature is literature composed in the Anglo-Norman language and developed during the period of 1066–1204, as the Duchy of Normandy and...
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Anglo-Norman (Norman: Anglo-Normaund; French: Anglo-normand), also known as Anglo-Norman French, was a dialect of Old Norman that was used in England and...
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language Anglo-Norman literature Anglo-Norman England, or Norman England, the period in English history from 1066 till 1154 Anglo-Norman horse, a breed...
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See: Norman and French influence on Sicilian. Literature in Norman ranges from early Anglo-Norman literature through the 19th-century Norman literary...
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British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature...
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the Levant. Old Norman and Anglo-Norman literature was quite extensive during the Middle Ages, with records existing from notable Norman poets such as Wace...
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The Crusade and Death of Richard I (category Anglo-Norman literature)
The Crusade and Death of Richard I is a mid-13th-century Anglo-Norman prose chronicle by an anonymous author. It tells of the journey of Richard the Lionheart...
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Bisclavret (category Anglo-Norman literature)
resident loup garou Bisclavret. Novels portal Anglo-Norman literature Medieval literature Medieval French literature Kittredge, George (1903). Arthur and Gorlagon...
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Red Book of Ossory (category Anglo-Norman literature)
manuscript contains a number of texts in Latin, Middle English and in Anglo-Norman. The sixth gathering of the MS contains the Proverbes de bon enseignement...
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Lais of Marie de France (category Anglo-Norman literature)
known as the Breton lais. Despite her stature in Anglo-Norman literature and medieval French literature generally, little is known of Marie herself, but...
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England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England. The 7th-century work Cædmon's Hymn...
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The Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND) is a dictionary of the Anglo-Norman language as attested from the British Isles (England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland)...
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founding aim of the society was to promote the study of Anglo-Norman language and Anglo-Norman literature by facilitating the publication of reliable scholarly...
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Breton lai (category Anglo-Norman literature)
lay or simply a lay, is a form of medieval French and English romance literature. Lais are short (typically 600–1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry...
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Marie de France (category Anglo-Norman literature)
write francophone verse. Marie de France wrote in Francien, with some Anglo-Norman influence. She was proficient in Latin, as were most authors and scholars...
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Mirour de l'Omme (category Anglo-Norman literature)
the Latin title Speculum Meditantis ("mirror of meditation"), is an Anglo-Norman poem of 29,945 lines written in iambic octosyllables by John Gower (c...
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Graelent (category Anglo-Norman literature)
Graelent is an Old French Breton lai, named after its protagonist. It is one of the so-called anonymous lais . The plot is similar to that of Marie de...
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integrated, their language and literature mingled with that of the natives. The Norman dialects of the ruling classes became Anglo-Norman, and Old English underwent...
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Albion (category Articles containing Anglo-Norman-language text)
the Kings of Britain/Book 1, 16 Bernau 2007 Dean, Ruth (1999), Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, pp. 26–30, cited by Fisher,...
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Principia, among other works, in Latin. This consists of medieval literature in the Anglo-Norman tongue, and also in French. The French epic appeared in England...
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Roman de Rou (category Anglo-Norman literature)
including information from his father, and his own eyewitness Anglo-Norman literature Burgess, Glyn S. (2002). The Roman de Rou. Jersey. ISBN 0-901897-34-5...
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The Life of Saint Audrey (category Anglo-Norman literature)
hagiography detailing the life, death, and miracles of Saint Audrey, an Anglo-Saxon saint from Ely, Cambridgeshire in Britain. The only existing copy...
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Laüstic (category Anglo-Norman literature)
serves to communicate her undying love to the knight". Anglo-Norman literature Medieval French literature Marie de France, "Les Lais de Marie de France", p...
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Geoffrey Gaimar (category Anglo-Norman literature)
Geoffroy, was an Anglo-Norman chronicler. His contribution to medieval literature and history was as a translator from Old English to Anglo-Norman. His L'Estoire...
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Wace (category Norman-language poets)
English: I say and will say that I am Wace from the Island of Jersey Anglo-Norman literature Burgess, ed., at xiii Burgess, ed., at xvi Herbermann, Charles...
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Siège d'Antioche (category Anglo-Norman literature)
The Siège d'Antioche (or Estoire d'Antioche) is a Norman French rhyming poem about the First Crusade, produced either in England or Normandy in the late...
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Roman de Waldef (category Anglo-Norman literature)
is set sometime between the end of Roman rule in Britain in 410 and the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The French text is incomplete, the ending being...
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de Troyes Anglo-Norman literature Classical Arabic literature Medieval Armenian literature Medieval Bosnian literature Old Breton literature Byzantine...
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Thomas of Britain (category Anglo-Norman literature)
provided by the later versions. Poetry portal Anglo-Norman literature Legge, M. Dominica. Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background. London: Oxford University...
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Lanval (category Anglo-Norman literature)
Lanval is one of the Lais of Marie de France. Written in Anglo-Norman, it tells the story of Lanval, a knight at King Arthur's court, who is overlooked...
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