1. To extract from selected documents in the National Archives attestations of hitherto unknown vocabulary in the domains of shipping, building, crafts and trades, mining, fishing, the cloth trade, etc..

 

2. To provide directly to the AND project (cf. www.anglo-norman.net) material for inclusion in the second edition.

 

3. To identify a series of 200 or so National Archives documents for a future edition of non-literary Anglo-Norman texts.

 

4. To demonstrate the importance and the quantitative as well as qualitative impact of research of this type in non-literary (archive) documents.

 

5. To exemplify the use of advanced digital technology in the service of mainstream Humanities scholarship (the use of the computerised index of the National Archives to locate sources, gleaning on the basis of the high-quality images of Special Collection materials placed on-line by the National Archives, and the technical infrastructure of the AND for analysis and publication.)

 This project is funded by the AHRC (£81,000)