Old French Reading Group

La Chastelaine de Vergi

Convenor

Professor Véronique Duché, room 511, Babel building

To be added to the mailing list for notices please email Mairi Stirling Hill: mairi.hill@unimelb.edu.au

Meetings

The Group meets fortnightly on Mondays from 5:00-6:00, currently on Zoom.

Next meeting: 3 August 2026, continuing Le Roman de Silence.  Copies of the text will be distributed with the meeting email notices.

This will be an online video meeting via Zoom; please email mairi.hill@unimelb.edu.au to be added to the meeting list.

Venue: Currently online.

Please remember that no experience with French or Old French is necessary!

Resources

• Online dictionaries:
  • The ATILF Dictionnaire (Moyen Français), with a Chrétien appendix
  • The Anglo-Norman Dictionary (English)
  • Le Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (French)
  • ATILF (French) slightly later, but still good
• University of Texas Old French Online, including grammar summaries and parsed extracts from various Old French texts
• The Joys of Old French, a set of online resources supplied by Trinity College Dublin
• The Wikipedia Old French Grammar page is also helpful