Medieval English in a Multilingual Context

Chapter 1: Introduction Part I Research Contexts Chapter 2: Contact Theory and the History of English 
Chapter 3: From Original Sources to Linguistic Analysis: Tools and Datasets for the Investigation of Multilingualism in Medieval EnglishPart II Medieval Multilingualism and Lexical Change Chapter 4: Contact-Induced Lexical Effects in Medieval English 
Chapter 5: The West Germanic Heritage of Yorkshire English 
Chapter 6: Reframing the Interaction between Native Terms and Loanwords: Some Data from Occupational Domains in Middle English
Chapter 7: Cheapside in Wales: Multilingualism and Textiles in Medieval Welsh Poetry 
Chapter 8: Caxton's Linguistic and Literary Multilingualism: English, French and Dutch in the History of Jason Part III Medieval Multilingualism and Morphosyntactic Change 
Chapter 9: An Overview of Contact-Induced MorphosyntacticChanges in Early English 
Chapter 10: Traces of Language Contact in Nominal Morphology of Late Northumbrian and Northern Middle English 
Chapter 11: Origin and Spread of the Personal Pronoun They: La Estorie del Evangelie, a Case Study 
Chapter 12: Language Contact Effects on Verb Semantic Classes: Lability in Early English and Old French 
Chapter 13: Exploring Norn: A Historical Heritage Language of the British Isles  Part IV Textual Manifestations of Medieval Multilingualism
Chapter 14: Textual and Codicological Manifestations of Multilingual Culture in Medieval England 
Chapter 15: Adapting Winefride in Welsh, Latin and English 
Chapter 16: Let Each One Tell its Own Story: Language Mixing in Four Copies of Amore Langueo 
Chapter 17: The Materiality of the Manières de langage 
Chapter 18 Afterword

Sara M. Pons-Sanz is Reader in Language and Communication at Cardiff University, UK. She led the AHRC-funded network Medieval English (ca600-1500) in a Multilingual Context and co-led the AHRC-funded Gersum Project. She is the author of The Lexical Effects of Anglo-Scandinavian Linguistic Contact on Old English, and other books and articles on medieval English.  

Louise Sylvester is Professor of English Language at the University of Westminster, UK. She co-edited the Bilingual Thesaurus of Everyday Life in Medieval England and the multilingual database Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain c700-1450. She has published widely on the effects of contact with French on the vocabulary of Middle English.