Multilinguaism in the Middle Ages

Seminar archive

A medieval manuscript

2006/ 2007 Program

Date

Speaker

Title

Monday, 26th Oct

Anna Adamska, University of Utrecht.

Investigating multilingualism in medieval East Central Europe: Possibilities and limits of research.

Biblography and notes

Monday, 13th Nov

Elizabeth Tyler, University of York, and Lars Boje Mortensen, University of Bergen.

Interfaces: Vernacular Voices and Latin Narratives, c.900-1200.

download Tyler presentation
download Mortensen presentation

Monday, 27th Nov

Lindsey Jones, Penn State University.

The uses (and abuses) of the Latin language in medieval drama.

Tuesday, 23rd Jan

Carolyn Muessig, University of Bristol

The Vernacular Sermon in the Middle Ages

Biblography and notes

Tuesday, 27th Feb

Nick Doane, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Antiquity of English in the Twelfth Century

Suggested reading

Tuesday, 13th March

David Trotter, University of Aberystwyth

Not quite what it says on the tin: mining the National Archives for multilingual documents

notes

Tuesday, 24th April

Helen Fulton, University of Wales Swansea

Wales and Multilingualism in Britain after 1066

Suggested reading

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