Learning French in a Late Thirteenth-Century English Bakehouse
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.29124Keywords:
medieval technical vocabulary, walter of Bibbesworth, french language instruction, didactic poetryAbstract
This essay studies the the vocabulary of milling and baking found in the Anglo-Norman didactic treatise/ poem by Walter of Bibbesworth , an educational text for gentry families seeking instruction in the French language which came equipped with English glosses.
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