la Rue to show that these French trouveurs were in fact almost all of them natives of or residents in England, and wrote not for a French, but for an English public, as well as to institute the first comprehensive investigation into their productions and merits. Since he thus led the way, a crowd of his countrymen have given themselves with abundance of zeal, and more or less of ability and accomplishment, to the same line of inquiry. Most of their labours will be found to be noticed in the following compendium. Then, again, there are our numerous old monkish chronicles written in Latinthe great sources of our national history, and also of much of our legendary literature; they have of late years, after a period of neglect, come to attract much attention; and we have endeavoured to indicate everything of importance that has been done, by improved editions of some, and by the printing of others for the first time, either to restore and elucidate them, or to make them better known and more accessible. It only remains to be added that some portions of what is now before the reader have already appeared in the Pictorial History of England;' but in the main the present is a new work. 6 G. L. C. INTRODUCTION Learning-Mathematics-Medicine-Law— PAGE 9 The French Language in England The Langue d'Oc and the Langue d'Oyl Anglo-Norman Poets:-King Henry I.-His Queens, Matilda and Alice PAGE 94 96 98 99 106 107 114 118 Ascendancy of the Scholastic Philosophy Mathematical and other Studies Latin Historical Writers: - Roger de Wendover Matthew Paris - Rishanger — Bromton-Wikes - The Latin Language-Oriental Tongues-Greek Anglo-Norman Poets:-Marie de France-Denys Py- Romance of Alexander-Thomas of Kent-Haveloc le Danois-Chardry-Adam de Ros-Helie of Win- chester-Continuator of Wace-Pierre du Ries- Godfrey of Waterford-Robert Bikez-Purgatory of St. Patrick-Walter of Exeter -Peter de Langtoft. 191 |
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