This Project, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), began on May 1, 2005. Funded for a period of five years, it is a collaborative enterprise between the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, directed by Dr Mary Swan, Professor Elaine Treharne, Dr Orietta Da Rold and Dr Jo Story, and Dr Takako Kato is the research associate.

The Project aims:

• to identify, analyse and evaluate all manuscripts containing English written in England between 1060 and 1220;
• to produce an analytical corpus of material in order to address fundamental questions about this crucial period in the evolution of English textual culture, from late Anglo-Saxon England, through the Norman Conquest and into the high Middle Ages;
• to investigate key questions including the status of written English relative to French and Latin; the identity of the producers and users of the texts; and the agenda informing the production of so many texts in English during this important period.

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