2025/01/01 by Edward Mills · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Medieval Literature and History
paper · doi:10.1353/mlr.00032
openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Abstract: This article offers the first complete critical edition and study of the text known as Domestic Economy , a late fourteenth-century Anglo-French vocabulary and guide to household accounting found in London, British Library, MS Harley 4971, much of the content of which is ‘grafted’ from Walter de Bibbesworth’s thirteenth-century rhymed vocabulary, the Tretiz . The Domestic Economy demonstrates that the Tretiz enjoyed currency within the professional domains of later medieval England, and in the process challenges straightforward typologies of French-language didacticism in medieval England as either linguistic or practical.