The project hosted four sessions at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds in July 2016, bringing together twelve speakers from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the UK to discuss languages and literacy across the early medieval West.

This was our schedule:

Session 512:

• Wolfgang Haubrichs, ‘Carolingian Old High German Texts Embedded in Multilingual Situations: OHG Isidor, Straßburg Oaths, Ludwigslied, Pariser Gespräche, Kassel Glosses‘
• Jens Schneider, ‘Questions on Carolingian Vernacular Legislation’
• Stefan Esders, ‘Writing Old Saxon in Early Medieval Manorial Administration: The Cases of Werden and Essen’

Session 612:

• Olga Timofeeva, ‘Anglo-Latin Bilingualism before 1066: Going beyond Limitations’
• Aya van Renterghem, ‘Another Day, Another Alphabet: Bilingualism in Runica Manuscripta’
• Rory Naismith, ‘The Languages of Money in Early Medieval England and Its Neighbours’

Session 712:

• Marco Stoffella, ‘Traces of Bilingualism in Early Medieval Northern Italy: The Evidence from Private Charters, 8th-10th Centuries’
• Edward Roberts, ‘The Use of the Vernacular in Fulda and Freising Charters, c. 770 – c. 900’
• Hans-Werner Goetz, ‘Germanic Names in Latin Charters: Reflections on the Saint-Gall Charters’

Session 812:

• Robert Gallagher, ‘Constructing Authority in Anglo-Saxon ‘Private’ Charters’
• Albert Fenton, ‘The Linguistic Features and Formulae of Anglo-Saxon Writs’
• Charles Insley, ‘Languages of Boundaries and Boundaries of Language in Cornish Charters, 900-1100’