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Watch Simon Keynes’ lecture on Anglo-Saxon charters

Last month, Professor Simon Keynes (Cambridge) delivered a lecture on ‘Anglo-Saxon charters in the vernacular’. The lecture is now available online to view here.

Upcoming LEMC lectures in Vitoria

We are excited to be welcoming four more speakers to Vitoria over the next two months in the continuation of our lecture series. Here are the details for the forthcoming talks. All are warmly invited to attend. For further information, please contact Francesca Tinti (francesca.tinti@ehu.eus), or see our flyer.

 

Thursday 21 January, 11 am, […]

Prof Simon Keynes on Anglo-Saxon charters

Last week, Professor Simon Keynes (Cambridge) delivered a lecture at UPV in Vitoria on ‘Anglo-Saxon charters in the vernacular’, offering a thoughtful overview of the development of the use of Old English in the documentary culture of early medieval England. Professor Keynes is one of the leading historians of the Anglo-Saxon world (and of charters […]

Annina Seiler on the scripting of Germanic names

Last week, Dr Annina Seiler (Zurich) delivered a lecture in Vitoria on ‘Ego UUalto scripsi: Germanic names, vernacular sounds, and Latin spellings in early Alemannic and Anglo-Saxon charters’, in which she explored how Germanic names were transliterated in Latin charters. Comparison of early Anglo-Saxon charters with the archive of St Gall showed both similarities and […]

Next week: Dr Annina Seiler @ UPV/EHU Vitoria

We are delighted to be welcoming Dr Annina Seiler (Zurich) to Vitoria next week. Dr Seiler will be speaking on ‘Ego UUalto scripsi: Germanic names, vernacular sounds, and Latin spellings in early Alemannic and Anglo-Saxon charters’.

11.00, Wednesday 11 November, Aula 0.01, Facultad de Letras, UPV/EHU Vitoria. All are warmly invited to attend.

Rebecca Stephenson on multilingualism in late Anglo-Saxon England

On Thursday 29 October, Dr Rebecca Stephenson (University College Dublin) delivered a lecture in Vitoria on ‘Educating the multilingual scribe: the evidence of Ashmole 328’. Through a close examination of the sole extant complete manuscript of Byrhtferth’s Enchiridion, Dr Stephenson was able to cast new light on multilingualism in eleventh-century England. In particular, she showed […]

Watch Professor McKitterick’s lecture @ UPV/EHU

On Monday, 28 September, we welcomed Professor Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge) to Vitoria-Gasteiz, who delivered a lecture on ‘Literacy, communication and the power of words in the early Middle Ages’, in which she discussed the origins of her seminal The Carolingians and the Written Word (1989) and its impact on subsequent studies of the social and […]

Autumn lectures at the University of the Basque Country

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 […]

Call for papers: LEMC at Kalamazoo ICMS 2016

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2016 Kalamazoo ICMS:

Comparing Bilingualism in the Anglo-Saxon and Frankish Worlds

Two sessions for the 2016 Kalamazoo International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (12-15 May 2016), sponsored by The Languages of Early Medieval Charters project, University of the Basque Country, Spain.

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Leeds IMC 2015

Next week at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK, Francesca Tinti will be speaking on a topic intimately connected with the LEMC project: ‘The Interplay between Latin and Old English in the Worcester Episcopal Leases’. This paper is part of a session she has organised on The Languages of Anglo-Saxon Diplomatics (session 601, Tuesday […]