Anglo-Norman Dictionary

"Bumbulummery: a Christmas tradition that you will probably not wish to revive". You can now read Dr. Laura Wright's 'David Trotter Memorial lecture' full paper online, on the AND website: http://www.anglo-norman.net/dat/bb.shtml< br>

Many thanks to Dr. Laura Wright for entertaining us last night with a splendid talk on some of the sounds and smells of medieval multilingualism - the third Annual David Trotter Memorial Lecture, organised by Aberystwyth University - Department of Modern Languages in the Old College of Aberystwyth University

A small reminder for those of you in the area next week: https://www.aber.ac.uk/…/archi…/2018/ 10/title-217288-en.html

Edward Mills writes our second visiting scholar blogpost, this time on the uses of concordances, the education of seven-year-olds and some random violence: https://anglonormandictionary.blogspot.co m/…/an-introductio…

Announcement of the Third annual David Trotter Memorial lecture here in Aberystywth - this year by Laura Wright (Cambridge)

It's been a while, but here's a new blogpost - this time from our visiting researcher Davide Battagliola. He writes about an Anglo-Norman version of the 'Livre de Moralitez'. http://anglonormandictionary.blogspot.com /…/guest-blogger-d…

Proofreading of the first quarter (!) of the revised version of R- (AND#2) has started ... This might take a while ...

Last October's 'David Trotter memorial lecture' by Philip Durkin (Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary) is now available online on the Anglo-Norman Dictionary hub: "Minding the Gap : what we can learn from gaps in the surviving records for Middle English and Anglo-Norman". http://www.anglo-norman.net/dat/gap.shtml

The AND is in the latest Ranulf Higden Society newsletter - a summary of the project as well as some information on the expression 'strangling wolves'! Check it, and the society, out!

As from today, the Anglo-Norman Dictionary Facebook page has 1000 likes! Thank you everybody for your support!

In medieval Britain, if you wanted to get ahead, you had to speak French https://t.co/08NlxHu7Vq via @ConversationUK

Free PdF version of Jane Bliss's "Anglo-Norman Reader" available here

Who are the naked people on the Bayeux Tapestry? (And where have they gone?)

If you are local:

Anglo-Norman evidence in BBC News - England's first 'prisoner of war' discovered https://t.co/m8RvF4Df3v