(P. Meyer, op. cit. 33) in which he covers them with praise, commending their courtesy, their humility, their openness and the care with which they bring up their children. A few pieces of political satire show French and English exchanging amenities on their mutual shortcomings. The Roman des Français, by André de Coutances, was written on the continent, and cannot be quoted as Anglo-Norman although it was composed before 1204 (cf. Gaston Paris: Trois versions rimées de l'évangile de Nicodème, Soc. Anc. Textes, 1885), and is a spirited reply to French authors who had attacked the English. Drama This must have had a considerable influence on the development of the sacred drama in England, but none of the French plays acted in England in the 12th and 13th centuries have been preserved. Adam, generally considered to be an Anglo-Norman mystery of the 12th century, was most probably written in France at the beginning of the 13th century (Romania xxxii. 637), and the so-called Anglo-Norman Resurrection belongs to continental French as well. The earliest English moralities seem to have been imitations of the French ones. See also Anglo-Norman language English historians in the Middle Ages Medieval French literature The Crusade and Death of Richard I List of Norman-language writers Anglo-Norman Text Society Notes References Attribution Further reading William Cole. First and Otherwise Notable Editions of Medieval French Texts Printed from 1742 to 1874: A Bibliographical Catalogue of My Collection''. Sitges: Cole & Contreras, 2005. Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn et al., eds. Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, c. 1100-c. 1500 (York: York Medieval Press, 2009, pprbk 2013). Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, Thelma Fenster and Delbert Russell, Vernacular Literary Theory from the French of Medieval England: Texts and Translations c. 1120-c. 1450 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016). External links Anglo-Norman Hub European literature History of literature in England Literature Normandy