David Trotter Annual Memorial Lecture

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We are delighted to announce that this year’s David Trotter Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Daron Burrows of Oxford University on Thursday 28 October 2021 at 6PM.

This will be the fifth David Trotter Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Department of Modern Languages at Aberystwyth. Unlike previous years, this lecture will be on-line, making the event available to a wider public.

Professor Burrows, Fellow of St Peter’s College, is Professor of Medieval French at Oxford University. His lecture, ‘On Editing Anglo-Norman Texts: The Verse Psalter, for example’, will demonstrate his profound expertise in editing medieval texts written in the Anglo-Norman language – the variant of French that was used in medieval Britain and that pervaded so much of British culture. He is Hon. Secretary of the Anglo-Norman Text Society (where he has published multiple volumes) and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary.

Professor David Trotter was a leading international authority on French language and lexicography, a former president of the Société de Linguistique Romane and a corresponding member of the Paris-based Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. A graduate of Queen’s College Oxford, he joined Aberystwyth University in 1993 and was Professor of French and Head of the Department of Modern Languages for over two decades. He was Chief Editor of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary between 2002 and 2015.

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