Outputs
The ‘Learning Anglo-French’ project will see a large number of publications emerge over the coming years: with the project running to 2028, this section of the site will expand significantly as these appear.
Invited Presentations
Team members have been invited to present at various seminars and research meetings since the outset of the project.
- Thomas Hinton, ‘Genres of French Language Pedagogy in Medieval Britain’ (Medieval Romance Miscellanies as Instructional Devices [MeRMaID] Conference, Milan, January 2026)
- Edward Mills, ‘Angry Fathers, Legal Action, and Unwanted Marriages: Teaching French in Medieval Oxford’ (Romance Seminar, Stockholm University, December 2024)
- — —, ‘From Winchester to Turin: Manuscripts of the Anglo-French Disticha Catonis‘ (MeRMaID Conference, Milan, January 2026)
Conference Contributions
Conferences are an important part of the project’s dissemination strategy, providing a platform to share project updates while connecting with other specialists in the field.
- Thomas Hinton, ‘Love, Friendship, and Social Context in Written Anglo-French’ (HiSoN Conference, Bristol, June 2025)
- — —, ‘The Missing Evidence for French Language Learning in Britain pre-1350’ (SFS Annual Conference, Bristol, July 2025)
- Edward Mills, ”Les hommes ne preignent pas si grande cure des reverences‘: Men Writing Women in Late Medieval Model Letters’ (SFS Annual Conference, Bristol, July 2025)
- — —, ‘‘Cest parole tort doit estre reservé a la demonstracion’: Learning French and Learning the Law in 15th-Century England’ (SFS Annual Conference, Leicester, July 2026)
- Clem Pursey, ‘How to Use Powerful Men to Get What You Want: Female Voice and Authority in Wace’s Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou‘ (SFS Annual Conference, Bristol, July 2025)
- — —, ‘Nun the Wiser: Moulding Monastics at Lacock Abbey’ (SFS Annual Conference, Leicester, July 2026)
- Emily Reed, ‘Pragmatic petition in the Harley Model Letters’ (HiSoN Conference, Bristol, June 2025)
Outreach and Widening Participation
The project team are experienced in outreach work, and have built on their previous experience to deliver talks and experiences to new audiences, in line with the project’s aims.
- Thomas Hinton, ‘Watch Your Language: A Walk-and-Talk Around Medieval Exeter’
- — —, ‘Is English Just Badly-Pronounced French?’ (Exeter College, October 2025)
- Edward Mills, ‘The business of French in Medieval England’ (UCL Esperanto and Endangered Languages Society, March 2024)
Exeter Medieval Studies Blog Posts
The project does not have its own blog; instead, project members contribute on a regular basis to the wider Centre for Medieval Studies Blog at Exeter (itself run by a PDRF on this project, Edward Mills).
- Sean Doherty and Clementine Pursey, ‘Roundels and Revelations: A Research Postcard from Eton College’ (November 2025)
- Thomas Hinton, ‘Forensic Fun in Cambridge’ (July 2024)
- — —, ‘Scribes for the Day: A Hands-On Workshop’ (October 2024)
- — —, ‘The Curious Case of the Missing Manuscript: A Research Postcard from Somerset Heritage Centre’ (October 2025)
- Edward Mills, ‘Manuscripts, Safari Parks, and the Caswell Test: A Research Postcard from Longleat House’ (November 2024)
- Clementine Pursey, ‘Spotlight: Lisping Ladies and Lacock Abbey’ (May 2025)
Feature image: the Nominale sive verbale in Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.iv.20.
