Preface
These pages are meant to explain to a general readership what the Anglo-Norman Dictionary is about. Specialists in Anglo-Norman Studies (though we hope they, too, may find things of interest) should not look here for detailed scholarly information about the Dictionary, or instructions on how to use the Dictionary and Textbase on-line: those things are to be found in links from the Anglo-Norman Hub Home Page.
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Credits and acknowledgements
The material in these pages was produced under the general editorship of David Trotter and copy-edited by Michael Beddow, who also designed and implemented the html.
Authorship of the sections is as follows:
Section 1: Why an Anglo-Norman Dictionary? by David Trotter
Section 2: Making the Anglo-Norman Dictionary by David Trotter and Michael Beddow
Section 3: Anglo-Norman in Dialect and Slang by David Trotter
Section 4: A look at Magna Carta by David Trotter
Section 5: Eating your (Anglo-Norman) Words by Virginie Derrien
Section 6: Anglo-Norman in Chaucer's Middle English by Geert De Wilde
Section 7: Multilingualism in Medieval England by Natasha Romanova
The creation of this introductory material, like the on-line Anglo-Norman Dictionary itself and its associated collection of source texts, was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom. For full details of the funding, please see the AND project progress page.
The Anglo-Norman Dictionary and its associated source text base, together forming the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub, is a joint project of Aberystwyth University and Swansea University.
The printed version of letters A-E of the second edition of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary is published by the Modern Humanities Research Association, which holds the sole rights of print publication for AND2 letters A-E, as well as all rights to the first edition of the AND, parts of which are published on the AND on-line site by kind permission of the MHRA. For detailed copyright information on the Dictionary material, please see the Copyright Matters page of the AND site.
We are grateful to the Bibliothèque Municipale de Rouen and to the National Archives of the United Kingdom for permission to publish items in their care. More specific acknowledgement of these items can be found in the sections concerned.
The opening screen was designed by Steve Smith. The illustration shows a detail from the the tomb of King John in Worcester
Cathedral, reproduced by kind permission of the Cathedral Chapter. All copyright, rights in the nature of copyright, Publication
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to the Chapter of Worcester Cathedral, U.K. Photograph by Mr.
Christopher Guy, Cathedral Archaeologist.