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: 17 August 2026, continuing Le Roman de Silence from line 3339.  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