We’re big fans of Wace here at LAF, thanks in no small part to our resident Wace specialist, Clem Pursey! Clem’s part of one of several medieval French panels at @frenchstudies.bsky.social this year, speaking about women’s agency in the ‘Brut’ and the ‘Rou’.

‘Multilingualism was so ordinary in 14th-century England that not everyone would have had a reliable sense of the boundaries between the country’s different languages.’ John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the influence of French on medieval English: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

An exciting find in French-of-medieval-Britain studies: a new witness to Walter de Bibbesworth’s ‘Tretiz’! (Sort of.) Do get in touch if you don’t have access and would like a read! #medievalfrench #middleenglish

Our friends and colleagues over at @materialwills.bsky.social have gamified transcription, and we love it! Medievalists: a great chance to explore the Dark Side and brush up on your #earlymodern palaeography …

With permission, I might add.

Thanks, Matthew!

Optimist: the cup is half-full. Pessimist: the cup is half-empty. Anglo-Normanist: the lemma ‘cuppe’ is attested in both Middle English and insular French matrix-language texts, problematising a straightforward reading of the term as belonging to any one of medieval Britain’s vernaculars. Hence …

French of Britain fans — amazing announcement that the wonderful Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is coming to Oxford!

We made a Starter Pack of Centres (sorry, US followers) for Medieval Studies in the UK and beyond. Do let us know if you’d like to be added … go.bsky.app/PAQh2go

Hello, BlueSky-verse! We're really happy to be here, and to be carrying on the conversation from our previous Twitter account (@medievalfrench). But who exactly is 'we'? Well, time for a good, old-fashioned welcome thread ...