Of Arthour and of Merlin as Medieval Children's Literature

Clifton, Nicole

doi:10.1353/art.2003.0031

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“…More recently, disparagement of the Auchinleck Manuscript's poems has been transmuted into the claim that they might have made good children's literature (see e.g. Clifton, 2003Clifton, , 2005. 18 We cite the Auchinleck Manuscript's texts from Burnley and Wiggins's (2003) online facsimile-edition.…”

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French lexis in the Auchinleck Manuscript: A digital-philological approach

Critten

Gay-Crosier

Picca

2021

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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The Auchinleck Manuscript was produced in the 1330s in London and is best known to scholars of Middle English literature on account of the romances that it transmits. Several of these texts treat the establishment and defense of England and it has been argued that their interest in English history is matched by the language in which almost all of the manuscript’s texts are written: English. This article reconsiders the Englishness of the Auchinleck Manuscript via a quantitative analysis of its lexis. We show that a comparatively large proportion of the Auchinleck lexicon has connections to French and that, of these words with French connections, many do not appear to have been much used in English writing before the 1300s. Our statistics are derived via program scripts that match Auchinleck lexicon items to headword entries in the Middle English Dictionary and collect data pertaining to word etymology and earliest dates of citation from those entries. Where previous studies have emphasized the porous boundaries between English and French in 14th-century English contexts, we posit that some poets might aim to make creative capital out of the deliberate juxtaposition of the languages. The argument is supported by a series of visualizations; interactive versions of these visualizations and the data on which they are based are archived at our project website (https://solliryc.github.io/AuchinleckDataViz/).

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French lexis in the Auchinleck Manuscript: A digital-philological approach

Critten

Gay-Crosier

Picca

2021

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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A rthour and M erlin

Calkin

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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This entry provides a brief overview of the medieval romance Arthour and Merlin (also known as Of Arthour and of Merlin ), which is a Middle English translation of the Old French Estoire de Merlin . The entry summarizes the contents of the Middle English romance, lists its key manuscripts, and introduces readers to the main topics of critical discussion.

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