THE FRENCH OF THE CELTIC WORLDS
We are holding a conference on 9-11 April 2025 at the University of Bristol to explore French-language texts produced and/or circulating in the Celtic-speaking countries of medieval Britain, in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
In recent years, much scholarship has been devoted to exploring medieval francophonies outside of
France, including across the Italian and Iberian peninsulas, in Flanders and the Low Countries, as well
as in different regions of Outremer. As a region of early and prolific Francophone textual production,
England has received especial attention, most recently under the rubric of the ‘French of England’.
Within and alongside this work, scholars have been increasingly exploring further francophonies,
including in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Under the rubric of ‘The French of the Celtic Worlds’, this
conference seeks to bring together and develop further these fields of research. Our aim is to (re)assess
French-language works––whether administrative documents or literary texts––produced, circulated,
or translated in Celtic-speaking territories, to consider various modes of cultural and linguistic contact,
and to attend to the wider contexts and dynamics in which these processes are implicated.
The conference is sponsored by the ‘Mapping the March‘ project (ERC/UKRI) and the British Academy Newton Fellowship scheme.
Venue:
Humanities Research Space,
Arts Complex,
7 Woodland Road,
University of Bristol,
Bristol, BS8 1TB
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