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Learning Anglo-French

@medievalfrench.bsky.social
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We're a five-year (to 2028) research project based at @uniofexeter.bsky.social, investigating the learning of French in Britain, c. 1200 - c. 1500. Funded by UKRI; posts by @edwardmills.bsky.social (PDRF). Website: sites.exeter.ac.uk/learninganglofrench

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Learning Anglo-French @medievalfrench.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We’re big fans of Wace here at LAF, thanks in no small part to our resident Wace specialist, Clem Pursey! Clem’s part of one of several medieval French panels at @frenchstudies.bsky.social this year, speaking about women’s agency in the ‘Brut’ and the ‘Rou’.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/02/2025
‘Multilingualism was so ordinary in 14th-century England that not everyone would have had a reliable sense of the boundaries between the country’s different languages.’ John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the influence of French on medieval English: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Gallagher · What a spalage! Mis languages est bons
With contemporary English including more than eighty thousand terms of French origin, Georges Clemenceau might have had...
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Learning Anglo-French @medievalfrench.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
An exciting find in French-of-medieval-Britain studies: a new witness to Walter de Bibbesworth’s ‘Tretiz’! (Sort of.) Do get in touch if you don’t have access and would like a read! #medievalfrench #middleenglish
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Project MUSE - Building on Bibbesworth: Language, Estates Management, and the <i>Domestic Economy</i> of London, British Library, Ms Harley 4971
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Learning Anglo-French @medievalfrench.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Our friends and colleagues over at @materialwills.bsky.social have gamified transcription, and we love it! Medievalists: a great chance to explore the Dark Side and brush up on your #earlymodern palaeography …
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Learning Anglo-French @medievalfrench.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
With permission, I might add.
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Learning Anglo-French @medievalfrench.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thanks, Matthew!
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Edward Mills @edwardmills.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Optimist: the cup is half-full. Pessimist: the cup is half-empty. Anglo-Normanist: the lemma ‘cuppe’ is attested in both Middle English and insular French matrix-language texts, problematising a straightforward reading of the term as belonging to any one of medieval Britain’s vernaculars. Hence …
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Learning Anglo-French @medievalfrench.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
French of Britain fans — amazing announcement that the wonderful Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is coming to Oxford!
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Learning Anglo-French @medievalfrench.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We made a Starter Pack of Centres (sorry, US followers) for Medieval Studies in the UK and beyond. Do let us know if you’d like to be added … go.bsky.app/PAQh2go
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Learning Anglo-French @medievalfrench.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello, BlueSky-verse! We're really happy to be here, and to be carrying on the conversation from our previous Twitter account (@medievalfrench). But who exactly is 'we'? Well, time for a good, old-fashioned welcome thread ...
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