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Thursday 15 October 2026

9.30 Opening (Annina Seiler)

9.50-10.30 – The Dictionarius as a data source

  • Heather Pagan: ‘John of Garland’s Dictionarius: Towards a Digital Edition of Glosses’

Coffee break

11.00-12.20 – Places of learning

  • Frederique Lachaud: ‘How to Describe a Metropolis: William fitz Stephen’s Description of London (ca. 1173-1174)’
  • Alexander Schulz: ‘John of Garland’s Morale scholarium – Between Language Teaching and Satire’

Lunch break

14.00-15.20 – Teaching morals

  • Matteo Salaroli: ‘Glimpses of Practical Pedagogy in John of Garland’s Dictionarius
  • Lisa Ciccone: The Categories of ‘lectura Ovidii’ in John of Garland’s Integumenta

Coffee break

15.40-17.40 – The language(s) of education

  • Johanna Vogelsanger: ‘The Vocabulary of Education in Medieval England’
  • Rory Critten: ‘John of Garland and the Languages of Latin Instruction in England’
  • Thomas Hinton: ‘John of Garland and the Tretiz: Latin Models for Learning French’

Dinner

Friday 16 October 2026

9.20-10.40 – Vernacular glosses

  • Christine Wallis: ‘John of Garland’s Dictionarius and its Afterlives’
  • Kateřina Voleková: ‘Translation Strategies in Vernacular Glosses in Czech Manuscripts of Cornutus

Coffee break

11.00-12.20 – Teaching grammar

  • Katarzyna Jasińska-Różycka: ‘A Text Designed for Glossing: On John of Garland’s Composita verborum
  • Anne Grondeux: ‘John of Garland: Commentator and Critic of his Predecessors’

Lunch break

14.00-15.20 – Teaching writing

  • Elsa Marguin-Hamon: ‘Teaching the Art of Writing According to John of Garland: Principles and Methods’
  • Carmen Cardelle: ‘From Word Lists to Literary Style: John of Garland’s Pedagogy for NonNative Latin Learners’

Coffee break

15.40-17.00 – Genre labels

  • Giorgio Di Michino: ‘Defining the Integumenta: From Technical Term to Work Title’
  • Annina Seiler: ‘Teaching “the Most Necessary Words”: Contextualized Lexicography and Didactic Strategies’

17.00-17.15 Closing (Annina Seiler)