In medieval Ireland as elsewhere, French was a language of power and prestige. Introduced into twelfth-century Ireland by the Anglo-Normans, it remained the language of the ruling classes (Church, law, etc.) generally, to varying degrees, for several centuries. Written, it emerges, inter alia, in a handful of poems including a near-contemporary account of the Anglo-Norman invasion. Interestingly, reminiscenses of French Arthurian literature abound in the Irish literature of the period. From the fourteenth-century onwards, French began to lose out not to English but to the vernacular, Irish.Au Moyen Age, en Irlande comme ailleurs, la langue française était synonyme de pouvoir et de prestige. Établie en Irlande au douzième siècle par les Angl...
Thirteenth-century France saw the construction of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris to house the Crown o...
The Anglo-Irish language is a generic term to deal with the English as spoken in the four provinces ...
A group of fifteenth-century manuscripts feature a range of literary works translated into Irish fro...
In medieval Ireland as elsewhere, French was a language of power and prestige. Introduced into twelf...
Dialogue between Middle English and Irish takes two principal linguistic and literary forms. A body ...
The island of Ireland was never conquered by the Roman Empire and this fact is largely responsible f...
The Languages in Celtic-Speaking Countries - Of the Celting languages which survived into the Middle...
The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of medieval French used in the British ...
The languages of The Boyne Water - a historical novel by John Banim - contribue to the representatio...
Although sustained interest in Arthur appears to emerge much later in Ireland than in other parts of...
Ireland is the seat of the emergence of an original grammatical reflection, which first concerned La...
Toner Gregory. Borrowings in medieval Irish literature : The case of Tochmarc Emire. In: Etudes Celt...
This article examines what a group of medieval conversation manuals designed to teach spoken French ...
In the decades following the Norman Conquest, a new dialect of Old French expressed England's gradua...
Whereas Victorian English medievalism has been the object of much scholarly interest in recent years...
Thirteenth-century France saw the construction of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris to house the Crown o...
The Anglo-Irish language is a generic term to deal with the English as spoken in the four provinces ...
A group of fifteenth-century manuscripts feature a range of literary works translated into Irish fro...
In medieval Ireland as elsewhere, French was a language of power and prestige. Introduced into twelf...
Dialogue between Middle English and Irish takes two principal linguistic and literary forms. A body ...
The island of Ireland was never conquered by the Roman Empire and this fact is largely responsible f...
The Languages in Celtic-Speaking Countries - Of the Celting languages which survived into the Middle...
The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of medieval French used in the British ...
The languages of The Boyne Water - a historical novel by John Banim - contribue to the representatio...
Although sustained interest in Arthur appears to emerge much later in Ireland than in other parts of...
Ireland is the seat of the emergence of an original grammatical reflection, which first concerned La...
Toner Gregory. Borrowings in medieval Irish literature : The case of Tochmarc Emire. In: Etudes Celt...
This article examines what a group of medieval conversation manuals designed to teach spoken French ...
In the decades following the Norman Conquest, a new dialect of Old French expressed England's gradua...
Whereas Victorian English medievalism has been the object of much scholarly interest in recent years...
Thirteenth-century France saw the construction of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris to house the Crown o...
The Anglo-Irish language is a generic term to deal with the English as spoken in the four provinces ...
A group of fifteenth-century manuscripts feature a range of literary works translated into Irish fro...