Yesterday the team was visited by Dr Bernhard Zeller (Vienna), who delivered a fascinating talk on the languages of the charters of St Gall, a monastery in present-day Switzerland which preserves one of the richest documentary collections from the early medieval period – over 800 original single-sheet charters from before the year 1000. Dr Zeller […]
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Yesterday, Professor Dame Jinty Nelson (London) delivered a lecture in Vitoria on ‘Language-use in Charlemagne’s Empire’. Professor Nelson selected three ‘postcards’ from the Frankish empire under Charlemagne, each of which illustrates how vernacular language could be harnessed and deployed to great effect – a royal diploma enacting a new political relationship between Charlemagne and the […] Last week, Dr Charles Insley (University of Manchester) came to Vitoria to speak to us on ‘Languages of Boundaries and Boundaries of Languages in Cornish Charters, 900-1100’, in which he analysed language-use in a small collection of Anglo-Saxon charters for the region of Cornwall (southwest England). These documents are marked by traces of the Brittonic […] |
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