On Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31, 2025, the University of Toronto will host an online colloquium on “Early Latin-Old English Glossaries.” The schedule is given below. Those interested in viewing and participating in the colloquium can get the Zoom link by request. Please contact c.s.laird@gmail.com.
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 (Private 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 (University of Southern Louisiana), ““The Works of Isidore of Seville as Sources of the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary”
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