WUN presents an interdisciplinary research programme on Multilingualism in the Middle Ages.

The aim of the project is to further research into the cultural consequences and manifestations of multilingualism in the medieval west. Areas for study include the purposes and effects of ‘code switching’, the functional and territorial distribution of languages, multilingual writings and manuscripts, questions of mutual comprehensibility, and others.

The project is a collaboration between the Universities of Bergen, Bristol, Leeds, Madison-Wisconsin, Manchester, Oslo, Penn State, Utrecht, and York, in association with Brepols Publishing.

The academic programme includes seminars, workshops and a number of public conferences.