21-22 July 2011

The object of this two day colloquium, organized under the aegis of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary Project, is both to take stock of where Anglo-Norman scholarship has got to, and to look forward to the future, and to (perhaps new) directions for research. These include textual scholarship, editing, lexicography (and electronic linking to other projects), linguistic analysis, the relationship between Anglo-Norman and the languages with which it was in contact. The colloquium will seek to consider (and raise) questions pertaining to the future - questions such as: what should we be editing, what are future directions for research into multilungualism in the British Isles, how might we better engage with work on continental french, English, and medieval Latin, how can the Anglo-Norman Dictionary develop to help its readers? In some ways, Anglo-Norman is now better anchored in the mainstream of French linguistics than it ever has been, in orther respects that is all the more reason to think about what happens next.