On Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31, 2025, the University of Toronto will host an online colloquium on “Early Latin-Old English Glossaries.” A provisional list of speakers is given below. The final program and instructions on how to attend will be posted in the coming weeks.
Michael Lapidge (Cambridge), “Glossaries and Teaching at the Canterbury School”
David Ganz, “The Palaeography of the Épinal Glossary Manuscript”
Michael Herren (York/Toronto), “The Vocabulary of the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary: Funny Foreign Words, Archaisms, and the Festus Glosses”
David Porter (Southern Louisiana), “The Works of Isidore of Seville as Sources of the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary”
Patrizia Lendinara (Palermo), “The Relationship between Erfurt II and the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary”
Gernot Wieland (Univ. of British Columbia), “The Names of the Graeco-Roman Gods in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary: Sources and Typology.”
Claudio Cataldi (Palermo), “The Hermeneumata Entries in the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary”
Dylan Wilkerson (Michigan, Ann Arbor), “Æthelstan’s Psalter and the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary: The Transliteration of Greek in the Early Middle Ages”
Cameron Laird (Dictionary of Old English), “Second Fronting and the Sources of the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary”
Franck Cinato (CNRS), “Glossographic Archaeology: The Evidence of the Abavus Glossaries”
Rosalind Love (Cambridge), TBA on Boethius glosses