Conference
47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47)
- Date
- Friday 12 December 2025
- Time
- Serie
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
- Address
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- Lipsius/2.28
Programme
10.00 – 10.25 Doors open
10.25 – 10.30 Welcome
10.30 – 11.00 Marcelle Cole (Utrecht University) and Brian Golding (retired scholar, University of Southampton), with Ellie Rye (University of York): “Localizing the Ormulum”
11.00 – 11.30 Eileen Foy (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf): “The Tale of Balin and Balan: Foreshadowing the Fate of the Fellowship”
11.30 – 12.00 Judith Bleeker (University of Groningen): “From Travel to Text: Practical Advice and Literary Conventions in Late-Medieval Pilgrimage Accounts”
Lunch break
13.30 – 14.00 Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen): “What Orm’s Metre Can Tell us about Early Middle English Syntax”
14.00 – 14.30 Judith Kaup (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf): “Multilingual Didactics in Middle English Texts”
14.30 – 15.00 Thari Zweers (Cornell University): "We Built this City on Crowd Control: Colonial City Infrastructures in Chaucer’s Melibee and Dirc Potter’s Mellibeus"
Tea break
15.20 – 15.50 Jannis Jakobs (University of Cambridge): “A Digital Approach to the Study of Scribal Practices: The English Gloss of the Eadwine Psalter”
15.50 – 16.20 Megan Leitch (University of Groningen): “The Medieval Middlebrow: Rewriting Romance and Reshaping the Literary Marketplace”
Keynote speaker
16.20 – 17.20 Lindy Brady (Edge Hill University): “Old English in Its Multilingual Contexts”
17.20 – Conclusion
17:30- Conference drinks in LUCAS common room
[Arsenaal building, Arsenaalstraat 1; first floor]
Registration
Attendance is free, but please register before 1 December 2025, using the registration link below. The conference will take place on campus, but online attendance via Zoom will be possible.