Anglo-Norman in the National Archives: a lexical study of selected documents

该项目的主要目的是扩大对盎格鲁-诺曼(诺曼征服后不列颠群岛使用的法语形式)中不同类型的技术和专业词汇的了解。这是通过研究未出版的国家档案馆(PRO)文件并从这些文件中提取材料来实现的，这样它就可以用来丰富《盎格鲁-诺曼词典》(=AND；正在修订中)中迄今未被和或任何其他中世纪法语词典充分涵盖的词汇领域。该项目需要对预先选择的文件进行有针对性的调查，由一名在和的背景下(以及在和的前提下)工作的博士后研究助理进行。主要的选择机制(除了出版的参考文献外)是在线国家档案馆目录，http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk.这使得能够通过关键字搜索来识别相关文档(例如：锡、羊毛、采矿、捕鱼、建筑……)。在大多数情况下，这些文件作为数字图像在国家档案馆的网站上进行审查：特别是由AHRC/国家档案馆项目数字化的SC 8(古代请愿书)收藏。还对其他藏品中的另一小部分文件进行了审查，部分是在Kew国家档案馆工作人员的建议下进行的。总共仔细审查了约400份文件，其中大部分是全部或部分抄写的，为和制作了约120页打字稿摘录。该项目还直接产生了四份会议文件(两份在国际会议上发表，其中一份即将出版)，这是一张光盘的一部分，以及一个旨在宣传和宣传的互动网站。

The project's main aim was to extend knowledge of different types of technical and specialist vocabulary in Anglo-Norman (the form of French in use in the British Isles after the Norman Conquest). This was achieved by working through, and drawing material from, unpublished National Archives (PRO) documents, so that it could be used to enrich the Anglo- Norman Dictionary (= AND; revision in progress) in areas of vocabulary thus far inadequately covered in either the AND or for that matter, any other dictionary for medieval French.The project entailed a targeted investigation of pre-selected documents, carried out by a post-doctoral research assistant working within the context (and on the premises of) the AND. The principal selection mechanism (in addition to published references) was the online National Archives catalogue, http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk. This enabled identification of pertinent documents by keyword searching (e.g.: tin, wool, mining, fishing, building ...). These documents were in most cases examined as digital images on the National Archives' website: in particular, the SC 8 (Ancient Petitions) collection which has been digitized by an AHRC/National Archives project. A further small selection of documents from other collections was also examined, in part after advice from National Archives staff at Kew. In total some 400 documents were closely examined, the majority being transcribed in whole or in part, producing some 120 typescript pages of gleanings for the AND. Four conference papers (two at international conferences; one of which is due to be published), part of a CD and an interactive website designed to publicize the AND, have also arisen directly from the project.