Between January 2020 and August 2022, I worked as the Postdoctoral Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project, Learning French in Medieval England, as part of which I had overall responsibility for the project’s website website and Twitter feed (@medievalfrench).
The main aim of the project was to produce the first digital edition of the 13th-century text known as the Tretiz, attributed to the Essex knight Walter of Bibbesworth and extant in 17 manuscripts. While several manuscripts of the Tretiz have been the subject of critical editions, there remains no resource that allows for easy comparison of the text’s widely-divergent manuscript versions, or their often-unique English glosses. The digital format chosen for our edition facilitated this comparison, and allows our output – in standard TEI-P5 XML format – to be easily shared and built upon by others.
As part of the project, I have also investigated the influence of the Tretiz on later language-learning material, which is currently under peer review.
Edward Mills 