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Middle French ( French: moyen français) is a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the mid-14th to the early 17th century. [1] [2] It is a period of transition during which: the literary development of French prepared the vocabulary and grammar for the Classical French ( le français classique) spoken in the ...
- evolved into Modern French by the early 17th century
Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) A dictionary of Middle French (1330-1500) comprising more than 65,000 entries with 470,000 contextual examples. The search function is flexible and allows for orthographic variants. Definitions are given in modern French.
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Francien dialect, the medieval dialect of Old French that furnishes the basis for the literary and official form of the modern French language.Francien was spoken in the region of Île-de-France, which included the city of Paris, and its preeminence is an indication of the political and intellectual prominence of Paris in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Middle French is a historical division of the French language that covers the period from the mid-14th to the early 17th century. It is a period of transition during which:the French language became clearly distinguished from the other competing Oïl languages, which are sometimes subsumed within the concept of Old French the French language was imposed as the official language of the Kingdom ...
Sep 14, 2018 · A dictionary of Middle French (1330-1500) comprising more than 65,000 entries with 470,000 contextual examples. The search function is flexible and allows for orthographic variants. Definitions are given in modern French.
Old French ( franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th [2] and the mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse.
3. The Central Middle Ages (ca. 800–1100) The study of language was a subject of revived interest during the flowering of scholarship, art, architecture, and literature that characterized the Carolingian Renaissance in the 8th and 9th centuries, during the reigns of the Frankish kings Pippin the Short, Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, and Charles the Bald.
