Tom Hinton is Associate Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of Exeter, and is the Principal Investigator on the project. He has worked on Anglo-French material since 2013, and was the Principal Investigator on the 2020-22 AHRC-funded project, ‘Learning French in Medieval England‘. The principal output of LFIME (currently in preparation) is […]
Sean joined the project team in May 2024, following the completion of his work on the Wellcome Trust-funded ‘Animal Feeding‘ project. His work on LAF centred around analysing the biological information that can be gleaned from the manuscripts identified by other project members. Sean’s findings will offer new insights that will in turn inform understandings […]
Edward completed his PhD at the University of Exeter in 2021, and a monograph based on his doctoral research, provisionally titled Language, Learning, and the French of Medieval England, will appear in early 2027. As part of the LAF project, Edward is leading on the archival research that is central to identifying un- and under-explored […]
Emily Reed is a specialist in historical pragmatics, and wrote her PhD thesis on didactic methodologies in the Manières de langage tradition. On ‘Learning Anglo-French’, she is bringing her skill-set to a close analysis of ‘pragmatics of petition’ in the model letters tradition.
Clementine Pursey is a PhD student funded by the project. Clem completed their MLitt in Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews in 2024 and their BA in French and History at Aberystwyth University in 2023. For their thesis, provisionally titled ‘The French Tongue in the English Body: On women’s linguistic and social identities […]
A Visiting Professor at Westminster University, Richard’s work on the ‘native-like’ teaching and learning of French has redefined discussions of the place occupied by the language in later medieval Britain. He was a Visiting Fellow on the project between January and April 2026, where he (along with Louise Sylvester) examined patterns of glossing in Bibbesworth’s Tretiz, […]
Krista A. Milne will be a Visiting Fellow on the project in autumn 2026, during which time she will bring her expertise in quantitative codicology to the database that is currently under construction.
As Project Administrator, Harriet will play a key role in supporting the delivery of the project’s key objectives. Harriet has worked across a number of projects in the South-West, including the RENEW project on biodiversity and the Marine-i project.