Titlebook: Writers of the Reign of Henry II; Twelve Essays Ruth Kennedy,Simon Meecham-Jones Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America

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,The Life of English in the Mid-Twelfth Century: Ralph D’Escures’s Homily on the Virgin Mary, 1100–1200 is homiletic and hagiographie in nature. Its recontextualization in the twelfth century provides opportunities for investigating textual transmission and dissemination, for codicolog-ical and paleographical analyses, for assessing the uses of English texts, and for determining the characteristics and aims of the native literate elite.

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2945-5936 es competed for recognition and prestige and carved out their own spaces, while an English-speaking populace was ruled by a French-speaking aristocracy and administered by a Latin-speaking and writing clergy.978-1-137-08855-0Series ISSN 2945-5936 Series E-ISSN 2945-5944

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Old English Textual Activity in the Reign of Henry II,uage choices are made by writers and readers for different reasons at different moments, in which those choices always carry implications for cultural identity, and in which the carrying forward of pre-Conquest English linguistic and literary traditions must bear very particular meaning.

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,“Gloser La Lettre”: Identity and Power in the Poetry of Marie De France, the holder of power, thus undermining the personal and social integrity of all involved, and that her chosen poetic forms enabled her to comment acutely, if obliquely, on the obvious and inescapable plaiting together of ideas of identity and entitlement in the actions of the mighty.

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Introduction,ritten barely a decade before,. from Walter of Châtillon’s account of the burial of the most illustrious of warriors, Alexander the Great (see p. 21, below). If the choice flattered the extent of Henry’s martial achievements, it reflected accurately both the ambition of the man they buried, and the

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Latin and French as Languages of the Past in Normandy During the Reign of Henry II: Robert of Torigrians writing about the past, the vernacular became an important medium.. The juxtaposition of Latin and French raises various questions about patronage, authorship, audience, and gender. These can be explored through a study of the work of three contemporary Norman historians in particular: Robert