Learning Anglo-French
@medievalfrench.bsky.social
We're a five-year (to 2028) research project based at @uniofexeter.bsky.social, investigating the learning of French in Britain, c. 1200 - c. 1500. Funded by UKRI; posts by @edwardmills.bsky.social (PDRF). Website: sites.exeter.ac.uk/learninganglofrench
We’re big fans of Wace here at LAF, thanks in no small part to our resident Wace specialist, Clem Pursey! Clem’s part of one of several medieval French panels at @frenchstudies.bsky.social this year, speaking about women’s agency in the ‘Brut’ and the ‘Rou’.
The works of Wace, a large and important source of early Anglo-Norman, were added to the A-Z dictionary. A thorough examination of surnames in Anglo-Norman sources yielded a wealth of new materials, resulting in in 877 new entries (with 909 senses and subsenses, 1873 citations) in the dictionary.
March 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
We’re big fans of Wace here at LAF, thanks in no small part to our resident Wace specialist, Clem Pursey! Clem’s part of one of several medieval French panels at @frenchstudies.bsky.social this year, speaking about women’s agency in the ‘Brut’ and the ‘Rou’.
Reposted by Learning Anglo-French
‘Multilingualism was so ordinary in 14th-century England that not everyone would have had a reliable sense of the boundaries between the country’s different languages.’
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the influence of French on medieval English:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the influence of French on medieval English:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Gallagher · What a spalage! Mis languages est bons
With contemporary English including more than eighty thousand terms of French origin, Georges Clemenceau might have had...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
‘Multilingualism was so ordinary in 14th-century England that not everyone would have had a reliable sense of the boundaries between the country’s different languages.’
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the influence of French on medieval English:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the influence of French on medieval English:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
An exciting find in French-of-medieval-Britain studies: a new witness to Walter de Bibbesworth’s ‘Tretiz’! (Sort of.) Do get in touch if you don’t have access and would like a read! #medievalfrench #middleenglish
Project MUSE - Building on Bibbesworth: Language, Estates Management, and the <i>Domestic Economy</i> of London, British Library, Ms Harley 4971
doi.org
January 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
An exciting find in French-of-medieval-Britain studies: a new witness to Walter de Bibbesworth’s ‘Tretiz’! (Sort of.) Do get in touch if you don’t have access and would like a read! #medievalfrench #middleenglish
Our friends and colleagues over at @materialwills.bsky.social have gamified transcription, and we love it! Medievalists: a great chance to explore the Dark Side and brush up on your #earlymodern palaeography …
We have brand new 'APPRENTICE' and 'MASTER' workflows over on the @materialwills.bsky.social @zooniverse.bsky.social site!
Practice your palaeography or dive straight in with some more difficult handwriting 📜✍️
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
Practice your palaeography or dive straight in with some more difficult handwriting 📜✍️
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
📢 NEW CATEGORIES over on Zooniverse! 📢
We've divided up our transcription tasks 📜✍️
Looking to improve your reading of early modern handwriting?
👉Click on the 'APPRENTICE' workflow.
Have more experience of palaeography?
👉Give our 'MASTER' workflow a go!
#skystorians #citizenscience #history
We've divided up our transcription tasks 📜✍️
Looking to improve your reading of early modern handwriting?
👉Click on the 'APPRENTICE' workflow.
Have more experience of palaeography?
👉Give our 'MASTER' workflow a go!
#skystorians #citizenscience #history
December 5, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Our friends and colleagues over at @materialwills.bsky.social have gamified transcription, and we love it! Medievalists: a great chance to explore the Dark Side and brush up on your #earlymodern palaeography …
With permission, I might add.
This seems like an appropriate reaction to having a document from 1377 in your rucksack. #medievalsky
November 27, 2024 at 9:35 AM
With permission, I might add.
Thanks, Matthew!
ProTip 2
When you have made a shareable figure put it on @wikimedia.bsky.social, like this image by Sean Doherty of @medievalfrench.bsky.social
Cite #wikimedia as the source in publications.
You avoid having to send requests to the publisher to use your own figure every time you give a talk.
When you have made a shareable figure put it on @wikimedia.bsky.social, like this image by Sean Doherty of @medievalfrench.bsky.social
Cite #wikimedia as the source in publications.
You avoid having to send requests to the publisher to use your own figure every time you give a talk.
November 24, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Thanks, Matthew!
Reposted by Learning Anglo-French
Optimist: the cup is half-full.
Pessimist: the cup is half-empty.
Anglo-Normanist: the lemma ‘cuppe’ is attested in both Middle English and insular French matrix-language texts, problematising a straightforward reading of the term as belonging to any one of medieval Britain’s vernaculars. Hence …
Pessimist: the cup is half-empty.
Anglo-Normanist: the lemma ‘cuppe’ is attested in both Middle English and insular French matrix-language texts, problematising a straightforward reading of the term as belonging to any one of medieval Britain’s vernaculars. Hence …
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Runologist: After much debate, the most likely interpretation of the inscription on this cup is that it says "cup".
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Runologist: After much debate, the most likely interpretation of the inscription on this cup is that it says "cup".
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Literary critic: Difficulty and Opportunity: Liminality and the Cup in the Cultural Imaginary, 1789-1914
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Literary critic: Difficulty and Opportunity: Liminality and the Cup in the Cultural Imaginary, 1789-1914
November 23, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Optimist: the cup is half-full.
Pessimist: the cup is half-empty.
Anglo-Normanist: the lemma ‘cuppe’ is attested in both Middle English and insular French matrix-language texts, problematising a straightforward reading of the term as belonging to any one of medieval Britain’s vernaculars. Hence …
Pessimist: the cup is half-empty.
Anglo-Normanist: the lemma ‘cuppe’ is attested in both Middle English and insular French matrix-language texts, problematising a straightforward reading of the term as belonging to any one of medieval Britain’s vernaculars. Hence …
French of Britain fans — amazing announcement that the wonderful Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is coming to Oxford!
The James Ford Lectures in British History are coming to Examination Schools in January 2025!
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University) will be speaking on French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c. 1100-c. 1500 starting Thursday 23rd January.
See you there!
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University) will be speaking on French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c. 1100-c. 1500 starting Thursday 23rd January.
See you there!
November 23, 2024 at 9:16 AM
French of Britain fans — amazing announcement that the wonderful Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is coming to Oxford!
We made a Starter Pack of Centres (sorry, US followers) for Medieval Studies in the UK and beyond. Do let us know if you’d like to be added … go.bsky.app/PAQh2go
November 20, 2024 at 1:18 PM
We made a Starter Pack of Centres (sorry, US followers) for Medieval Studies in the UK and beyond. Do let us know if you’d like to be added … go.bsky.app/PAQh2go
Hello, BlueSky-verse! We're really happy to be here, and to be carrying on the conversation from our previous Twitter account (@medievalfrench). But who exactly is 'we'? Well, time for a good, old-fashioned welcome thread ...
November 19, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Hello, BlueSky-verse! We're really happy to be here, and to be carrying on the conversation from our previous Twitter account (@medievalfrench). But who exactly is 'we'? Well, time for a good, old-fashioned welcome thread ...