Sugar and spice and all things nice: From Oriental Bazar to English cloister in Anglo-French. From: The Modern Language Review | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: Rothwell, W. | COPYRIGHT 1999 Modern Humanities Research Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

French was the working language for the port of Southampton from the early 14th century. Similarly, the language was used by a variety of London-based mercantile companies a century later. The government, legal and ecclesiastical fields also used the language significantly around the same period. The role of French in the development of fifteenth century Middle English is analysed.

The records of the Port of Southampton between the beginning of the fourteenth century and 1436 show that ...

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