Recent work

Publications

• Wallis, Christine; Seiler, Annina; Pagan, Heather (2024). ‘Multilingual glossing and translanguaging in John of Garland’s Dictionarius: The case of Bruges, Public Library, MS 536.’ Lexis, HS 3: online.
• Pagan, Heather; Seiler, Annina; Wallis, Christine (2023). ‘Linguistic Layers in John of Garland’s Dictionarius.’ Études médiévales anglaises, 102(1):63-108.

Conference Papers

• 11/2025 Le développement de l’anglo-normand dans un contexte multilingue : contact et usage. Le français médiéval, langue internationale, Villers-Cottêrets, France.
• 09/2025 Scribal Performance and Linguistic (In)competence in John of Garland’s Dictionarius. Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas Colloquium. Reims, France.
• 09/2025 Scribes, Readers and Glosses in Medieval Language Learning Texts. Associazione Italiana di Anglistica Conference 32. Turin, Italy.
• 02/2025 Learning Latin in the Middle Ages with John of Garland’s Dictionarius. Sheffield Medieval and Ancient Research Seminar. Sheffield, U.K. 
• 02/2025 An English teacher in Paris: Investigating Language teaching in the Middle Ages. Investigating Languages and Identities, London, U.K.
• 11/2024 Medieval multilingualism and the development of the lexis of English. Civitatis Educationis conference. Enna, Italy.
• 10/2024 Editing glosses from John of Garland’s Dictionarius. Researching medieval Latin Glosses: Opportunities and challenges. Zurich, Switzerland.
• 08/2024 Teaching “The Most Necessary Words”: The role of the vernacular in 12^th and 13^th century contextualised lexicography. ESSE conference, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• 06/2024 Metalinguistic commentary in John of Garland’s Dictionarius. ICHLL 14, Universtiy of Westminster, London, U.K.
• 06/2024 A Fourteenth-Century fragment of Dutch Lexicography. ICHLL 14, University of Westminster, London, U.K.
• 06/2024 Learning Latin through French, learning French through Latin: John of Garland’s Dictionarius. French Studies conference, Stirling, U.K.
• 14/05/2024 Translanguaging in the 13th century: John of Garland’s Dictionarius in Brugge, Public Library, MS 536. Helsinki Society for Historical Lexicography. Helsinki, Finland.
• 29/09/23 Adapting the Dictionarius: Lexical Variation in Insular Manuscripts of Garland’s Work. International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL). Salerno, Italy.  
• 06/07/23 Multilingual Glossing in John of Garland’s Dictionarius. International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL). Sheffield, UK.
• 10/01/23 Translating the Body: Anatomy and the Multilingual Gloss. Workshop: The impact of multilingualism on the vocabulary and stylistics of medieval English I: Semantic Exploration. Zurich, Switzerland.
• 23/08/22 Middle English glosses in John of Garland’s Dictionarius. 12th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME). Glasgow, U.K.
• 14/07/22 Towards a Digital Edition of John of Garland’s Dictionarius. The Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM). La Rioja, Spain.
• 04/07/22 An Englishman in Paris: Manuscripts and Multilingualism in John of Garland’s Dictionarius. International Congress on the Study of the Middle Ages. Leeds, UK.
• 24/06/22 John of Garland’s Dictionarius: multilingual medieval dictionaries in modern historical lexicography. ICHLL 2022 : International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology. Lorient, France.
• 13/05/22 John of Garland’s Dictionarius: Learning Latin in the Middle Ages. Multilingual History of English Seminar. Poznań.
• 20/10/21 An Englishman in Paris: investigating language learning in late medieval Western Europe. English Language and Linguistics Research Seminar. University of Westminster, London. https://eu-lti.bbcollab.com/recording/8a365dddca734d499a98a17ee9abb4ec

Other

• 05/25 Learning Latin in Medieval England: John of Garland’s Dictionarius. University of Kiel, research seminar and class session (MA class in multilingualism).