We apologize for the recent periods of downtime affecting the dictionary. The technical issues should now be resolved, and we thank you for your patience while we worked to restore the service.

"... a personal touch to the work that has gone into the project" So what can be discovered in the Anglo-Norman Dictionary archives, among the early drafts, private correspondence and funding applications? A new blogpost offers some insights: anglo-norman.net/materials-fr...

"Some cards are still within the original envelopes that were sent for review by the scholars who created them." Blogpost #4 looks in closer detail at some of the original index cards in the archives of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary: anglo-norman.net/index-cards-...

"the organisation was not consistent throughout the entire collection. This presented us with a challenge ...?" Here is blogpost#3 from the Archivist Project working on the AND's historical materials and correspondence: anglo-norman.net/challenges-o...

"Some had labels, but primarily the exact contents were a mystery to us." The second blogpost on exploring the AND archives is now available here: anglo-norman.net/the-process-...

Meet the team of Archive Masters Students of Aberystwyth University digging into the history of the AND! Their first post is now availabale on our blog: anglo-norman.net/overview-of-...

The AND archives project! Over the past four months, a team of six Archive Masters students at Aberystwyth University has examined and organised more than 25 large boxes of materials relating to the making of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary - some dating back to the 1940s. @aberuni.bsky.social

Karen, one of our AND editors, is talking about the Normans in Pembrokeshire this Friday! www.tenby-today.co.uk/news/communi...

Discover the Norman legacy in Pembrokeshire

WHAT did it mean to be ‘Norman’ in Medieval Pembrokeshire? That is the question which will be addressed by Dr Karen Jankulak at the next Pembrokeshire Historical Society lecture meeting on April 10.

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At the end of this week we say goodbye to Delphine Demelas, who takes up a lectureship in Digital Humanities at the University Southampton.

How it all started! (and it's coming closer to home very soon!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bayeux Tapestry to return to British Museum on loan after 900 years

Bayeux Tapestry will be shown at the British Museum, which will lend treasures to Normandy museums.

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The AND's own transcriptions of 13 unpublished Anglo-Norman texts (including religious narratives, a legal treatise and language manuals) are now also accessible through the Oxford Text Archive. hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106...

The AND has found the Holy Grail! Or at least, after much digging, the first Anglo-Norman attestation of the term: anglo-norman.net/entry/grael_2

NEW FEATURE!: From today you can use a new tool that searches all AND entries via headwords from all of its 9 cognate dictionaries! For example, you want to know which AND entry is equivalent to the Oxford English Dictionary’s 'to discover'?

FUNDING!! We’re delighted to say that the AND project has received a new AHRC grant! For the next four years we’ll be working on the completion of the Second Edition - not just the revision of V- (our final letter!), but also an overall consolidation (and expansion!) of all entries (A-Z).

Our best of thanks to Morgane Coirault and Emma Cavell who visited the AND project during February and March! Morgane worked as an intern to the editorial work and Emma produced transcriptions of previously unpublished Anglo-Norman texts. It was a joy to work together!

📜 📣 Wach, wach! The Second Edition of the W– and X- are now accessible online!

#LoveYourDataWeek! Exploring Anglo-Norman in its multilingual context? Almost every AND entry link is now clickable, providing direct access to French, English, and Latin cognate dictionaries in a more user-friendly format. Try it out and tell us what you think!

Messages like this give us the strength to continue our daily editorial task. Many thanks Marisa for your support! #medievalsky

Marisa Ellen Mills@gawanthegorgays.bsky.social · 2y ago

@a-ndictionary.bsky.social Please, accept my undying love and admiration both for your university and for all the important work you do in preserving the Anglo-Norman language and making it accessible to scholars. Your dictionary has been so helpful in my research. 🥰

We all know that the Anglo-Norman Dictionary is resourceful, but are you familiar with all of the platform's search options? ⬇️🧵 #medievalsky #DH #academicsky

📜 If you're in the Oxford area in January and want to learn more about the medieval French of England, don't miss Jocelyn Wogan-Browne's talk! #medievalsky

Faculty of History, University of Oxford@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social · 2y ago

The James Ford Lectures in British History are coming to Examination Schools in January 2025! Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University) will be speaking on French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c. 1100-c. 1500 starting Thursday 23rd January. See you there!

WOTD: maligne espirit, loc. ‘evil spirit, demon’ ‘espirt maligne en son cheval Entrira par enchantement.’ S Greg 2446 (an evil spirit will take possession of his horse by sorcery) Beware of the evil spirits, and Happy Halloween! ➡️ tinyurl.com/2erfvhdm #Halloween

WOTD: planete, s. ‘planet’ ‘set planetes Sunt al firmament […] Ceo est Saturnus e Jubiter, Mars, Solail e pus Venus, Mercurius, Lune’ RAUF ANTS 295 (seven planets are up in the sky […] They are Saturn and Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, then Venus, Mercury and the Moon) #SpaceWeek 1/2

WOTD: scolemestre, s., ‘schoolmaster, teacher’ ‘.ij. scolemaisters, l'un pur enfourmer les ditz queresters en musyk et l'autre en gramer’ Rot Parl1 iv 249 (two teachers, one to teach the said choristers music and the other grammar.) ➡️ tinyurl.com/3dsb4scb #teachersday

WOTD: gain, s., ‘autumn, harvest season’ weins frois et sechs si resemble […] melancolie Psalter Comment 109.89 (autumn is cold and dry ; it is similar to […] black bile) ➡️ anglo-norman.net/ent... #autumn

WOTD: ‘levé’, pp as a., leavened: ‘pur le pantrie […] vous achatés du payn non pas chaufenous, mes de bon payne levee’ Man lang ANTS 5.12 (For the pantry […] you will not buy mouldy bread but good leavened one) ➡️ More info: www.anglo-norman.net... #sourdoughseptember

📖New publication by @delphinedemelas.bsky.social, one of our editors: 'La Chanson d'Otinel. Édition critique du remaniement anglo-normand (fin XIIe siècle), ed. Delphine Demelas (Brepols May 2024)' ➡️ www.brepols.net/products/IS-... #medieval #AngloNorman

Today, we offer you a salty saga from #medieval England. According to an #AngloNorman chronicle, in 1325: ‘En cel temps la meer surmontoit l’eawe de Thamise qe fust salee, par quei moltz des gentz se pleignoient de la cervoise qe fu salee’ Anon Chr2 122 1/3

𝙒𝙊𝙏𝘿: terre, ‘world, earth as a sphere or planet’ esteiles reials Que apellum 'principals', Que en latin numuns Planetes par raisuns. La terre dedenz pent. Comput ANTS 2801 #EarthDay #WOTD 1/2

🗣️ Tresjoius, tresbenigne and treslas au terce! We're very happy to say that after almost three years of work, the Second Edition of the letter T- has now been published online! 1805 new and revised entries freely available on 🔽 anglo-norman.net/entry/t #DigitalHumanities #medieval #AngloNorman

𝙒𝙊𝙏𝘿: mandé 'washing of feet' If you ever wondered where the phrase 'Maundy Thursday' comes from, the answer is Anglo-Norman. ➡️To learn more: anglo-norman.net/ent...