The lexis of cloth and clothing in Britain c. 700 - 1450: origins, identification, contexts and change

该项目将收集和编目用于描述中世纪时期不列颠群岛的布料和服装、纺织品制造和服装配件的词汇。它将包括古英语和中古英语、中世纪拉丁语、盎格鲁-挪威语、盎格鲁-诺曼/法语、威尔士语、古爱尔兰语和康沃尔语，以及通过贸易和宗教等来源引入的外来词。它将分析和比较文本中这些词的用法，设法查明服装名称的原意、词汇的来源和术语含义的发展。一些词汇可能会被重新定义，作为研究的结果，纺织品贸易和制造的中世纪概念将用现代术语表达。该项目将产生一个可搜索的数据库，该数据库将在万维网上发布，并由曼彻斯特大学维护。它将从文本、中世纪艺术和幸存的人工制品中进行说明，并对这些证据来源之间的关系进行批判性分析。该项目旨在将最高的学术研究标准与可访问的最终产品相结合。该数据库将促进以下方面的研究：历史语言和比较语言；服装史及其与经济社会史的关系；还有物质文化。它将提供一个独特的参考资源，通过检查相互关系的地理上接近，但语言不同，部分英国以及他们的欧洲背景。它将把研究人员引向跨学科的材料，而这些材料往往被学者们遗漏，因为它们被划分为专门的领域。原始数据和表格将由AHDS存储，并应要求提供。论文和原型将在利兹和卡拉马祖举行的英国历史语言学会议和中世纪大会上提出；文章将在艺术史、纺织史和中世纪服装和纺织品等期刊上发表。在本项目结束后，研究人员将继续利用从数据库中提取的材料制作参考书和光盘。

The Project will assemble and catalogue the words used to describe cloth and clothing, textile manufacture and dress accessories in the British Isles in the medieval period. It will encompassing Old and Middle English, Medieval Latin, Anglo-Norse, Anglo-Norman/French, Welsh, Old Irish and Cornish together with foreign loan words introduced through sources such as trade and religion. It will analyse and compare the uses of the words in texts, seeking to identify the original meaning of garment-names, the sources of the vocabulary and developments in the meaning of the terms. Some vocabulary may be re-defined as a result of the study, and medieval concepts for textile trade and manufacture will be expressed in modern terms. The Project will produce a searchable database which will be released on the world wide web and maintained by The University of Manchester. It will be illustrated from text, and also from medieval art and surviving artefacts, and the relationship between these sources of evidence will be analysed critically. The Project aims to combine the highest academic standards of investigation with an accessible end-product. The database will facilitate research into: historical and comparative language; costume history, and its relationship to economic and social history; and material culture. It will provide a unique reference resource by examining the interrelationship of the geographically close, but linguistically disparate, parts of Britain as well as their European context. It will direct researchers to interdisciplinary material which is often missed by scholars because it is compartmentalized into specialist areas. The raw data and tables will be stored by AHDS and made available on request. Papers and prototypes will be presented at the Society for English Historical Linguistics Conference and Medieval Congresses at Leeds and Kalamazoo; articles will be offered for publication to journals including Art History, Textile History and Medieval Clothing and Textiles. The investigators will continue beyond this Project to produce a reference-book and CD using material extracted from the database.