The Épinal-Erfurt Glossary Editing Project (https://epinal-erfurt.artsci.utoronto.ca) is pleased to announce the “Early Latin-Old English Glossaries Colloquium to be held on Zoom, May 30-31, 2025. Eleven specialists have been invited to address questions pertaining to early Latin-Old English glossaries such as the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary, the Corpus Glossary, Erfurt II, and the Leiden Glossary. Topics include sources, the palaeography of the earliest manuscript, uses in teaching, the dating of the Old English glosses, Latinity, the transcription of Greek words, the typology of the glosses, and the relationship to other early glossaries. The organizers of the colloquium wish to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Council for two consecutive Insight Grants to support both the editing project and the colloquium. We also wish to thank the Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung for its support of the principal investigator in the preliminary stages of the editing project.
Those who wish to view and participate in the colloquium are invited to send an email to Cameron Laird (Dictionary of Old English): cameron.laird@mail.utoronto.ca. Cameron will send out the meeting codes to viewers/participants at an appropriate time.
SCHEDULE
Papers for the Colloquium, “Early Latin – Old English Glossaries”:
(Times are North American Eastern Daylight Times)
FRIDAY, May 30
9:00 – 9:40am WELCOME:
Michael Herren, Organizer
Elisa Brilli, Director, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Renee Trilling, Angus Cameron Chair of Old English
Stephen Pelle, Co-Editor, Dictionary of Old English
9:40 – 10:30am
Michael Lapidge (University of Cambridge): “Glossaries and Teaching at the
Canterbury School”
10:30 – 11:20am
Patrizia Lendinara (Università di Palermo), “The Relationship between Erfurt II and the
Épinal-Erfurt Glossary”
11:20am – 12:10pm
David Ganz (Independent Scholar), “The Palaeography of the Épinal Glossary
Manuscript”
12:10 – 1:00pm
BREAK
1:00 – 1:50pm
Michael Herren (York University and Centre for Medieval Studies), “The Vocabulary of
the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary: Funny Foreign Words, Archaisms, and the Festus Glosses”
1:50 – 2:40pm
Gernot Wieland (University of British Columbia), “The Names of the Graeco-Roman
Gods in the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary: Sources and Typology”
2:40 – 3:30pm
Cameron Laird (Dictionary of Old English), “Second Fronting and the Sources of the
Épinal-Erfurt Glossary”
SATURDAY, May 31
9:00 – 9:50am
David Porter (Southern University), “The Works of Isidore of Seville as Sources of the
Épinal-Erfurt and other Glossaries”
9:50 – 10:40am
Rosalind Love (University of Cambridge), “Mythological Misapprehensions in
Glossaries and Glosses”
10:40 – 11:30am
Claudio Cataldi (Università di Palermo), “The Hermeneumata Entries in the Épinal-
Erfurt Glossary”
11:30am – 12:20pm
Franck Cinato (Université de Paris Cité / CNRS), “Glossographic Archaeology: The
Evidence of the Abavus Glossaries”
12:20 – 1:30PM
BREAK
1:30pm – 2:20 pm
Dylan Wilkerson (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), “Æthelstan’s Psalter and the
Épinal-Erfurt Glossary: The Transliteration of Greek in the Early Middle Ages”
2:20 – 3:20
Summation and Open Question Period