French Literature of the British Isles after the Norman Conquest: A Digital, Data-Driven Investigation.

The article focuses on French Literature of the British Isles after the Norman Conquest and language of the conquerors rapidly replaced English within administrative and cultural domains. It mentions quantitative approach centred around a catalogue of manuscripts containing French literature and copied in the British Isles. It also mentions French literary production did not occur during the century following the Conquest, but rather during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.