In the forthcoming academic year, we will be convening a lecture series on ‘Languages, Documents and Communication in the Early Middle Ages’. This autumn we are welcoming four speakers to the Basque Country. The dates, locations and speakers are as follows:
Monday 28 September, 11.00, Facultad de Letras, Salón de Grados:
Professor Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge), ‘Literacy, communication and the power of words in the early Middle Ages’
Thursday 29 October, 11.00, Aulario de Las Nieves, Aula 207:
Dr Rebecca Stephenson (UC Dublin), ‘Educating the multilingual scribe: the evidence of Ashmole 328 (Byrhtferth’s Enchiridion)‘
Wednesday 11 Nov., 11.00, Facultad de Letras, Aula 0.01:
Dr Annina Seiler (Zurich), ‘Ego UUalto scripsi: Germanic names, vernacular sounds, and Latin spellings in early Alemannic and Anglo-Saxon charters’
Tuesday 15 Dec., 11.00, Facultad de Letras, Salón de Grados:
Professor Simon Keynes (Cambridge), ‘Anglo-Saxon charters in the vernacular’
We warmly invite all to attend. For further information, please contact Francesca Tinti (francesca.tinti@ehu.eus), or see our flyer. In due course, we will announce a further four lectures for early 2016.
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