Medieval Multilingualism in the British Isles
Graduate Conference of Magdalene Medievalists Society 2012
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Saturday 21st July, 2012
Conference Website
Keynote Speaker: Dr Tony Hunt, St Peter’s College, Oxford
Call for papers – now open
Abstract submission date: February 1 2012
We invite papers that address any aspect of the interaction between the speakers of different languages in the Middle Ages, including, but not limited to:
- attitudes to the tres linguae sacrae and to the vernaculars
- pedagogy and medieval perceptions of language acquistion
- translation
- orality and its depictions
- medieval views of linguistic history
- code-switching, miscellanies and scribal practice
Submissions acepted from graduate students and early career scholars in English and other languages and literatures, History, Linguistics, and all related disciplines. Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length; please send abstracts of 250 words or less to Sara Harris at mms@magd.cam.ac.uk by February 1st, 2012.