ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>FLPSS</title> <style type="text/css"> BODY {background:#fffce5; color:black; font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-size: 1.0em} A:link {color:red} A:visited {color:red} A:active {color:red} </STYLE> </head> <BODY> <p align=center><b>Latin and Paleography</b><br> flpss.org.uk</p> <p align=justify><b> The LATIN & PALEOGRAPHY SUMMER SCHOOL </b> has been held at the University of Keele since Dennis Stuart founded it in the 1980s. The "Friends of the Latin and Paleaography Summer School" was an informal group who never evolved into a formal organisation. Consequently they do not have the funds to maintain and update a full website. Instead this single page gives links to a number of useful sites for those interested in translating medieval Latin documents. </p> <p align=justify>Next year the Summer School will run from Saturday 21st July 2012 to Friday 27th July 2012. Details and bookings are now processed online. Details will be given on <a href="http://www.keele-conferencemanagement.com/lpss2012"> this website </a> when they become available. </p> <p align=justify> Although the course at Keele is unique, there are other courses which offer some of the same facilities. The Istitute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Durham University has classes in August and details may be seen <a href="http://www.dur.ac.uk/imrs/"> here</a> when they become available while London University has one- and two-day classes advertised <a href="http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/School12/index.htm"> here</a>.</p> <p align=justify>The National Archives offer interactive courses in Latin both for beginners and for more advanced students. These may be seen at <a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/Latin/beginners">www.national archives.gov.uk / Latin / beginners</a> and at <a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/Latin/advanced"> www.national archives.gov.uk / Latin / advanced</a> </p> <p align=center><b>GROUPS and SOCIETIES</b></p> <p align=justify> If you live in the north of England, the <b>Ranulf Higden Society</b> has three general meetings a year and there are several specialist groups within that society who meet and study Latin documents. Information may be found at their web site <a href="http://www.ranulfhigden.org.uk/">www.ranulf higden.org.uk</a> <br><br> If you live in the West Midlands, the <b>Ordericus Vitalis Group</b> meet in Shrewsbury on Monday afternoons to study and translate medieval Latin documents, mostly relating to Shropshire. The resulting transcripts and translations are deposited in Shropshire Archives and are available for anyone to use. For further details, see their web page <a href="http://www.latin-docs.org">www.latin-docs.org</a> <br><br> If you live in East Anglia, the <b>Suffolk Record Office</b> at Ipswich has been arranging classes in both Latin and Paleography and their website is <a href="http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/sro"> www.suffolk.gov.uk /sro </a>. Their classes run from October to March each year and they have Beginners' classes and Intermediate classes on Wednesdys and Advanced classes on Mondays. Contact them (email: ipswich.ro@suffolk.gov.uk/sro) for further details. <br> <br> There may be other groups, but we do not know about them. We would be happy to advertise them - please send details to the webmaster@flpss.org.uk </p> <p align=center><b>DOCUMENTS ONLINE </b></p> <p align=justify> The National Archives have many resources which may be contacted through their website <a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/">www.national archives.gov.uk </a> <br> <br> The O'Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston provides scanned images of many English legal documents from 1216-1800 at its website <a href="http://aalt.law.uh.edu">aalt.law.uh.edu</a> <br><br> Transcripts of Latin documents from the Anglo-Saxon period may be seen at the site <a href="http://www.Anglo-Saxons.net">www.Anglo-Saxons.net</a> <br> <br> The Fine Rolls of Henry III covering the period 1216-1272 may be seen at <a href="http://frh3.org.uk/">frh3.org.uk</a> while the Gascon Rolls Project (1317-1468) may be seen at <a href="http://gasconrolls.org/index.html">gascon rolls.org</a>. <br> </p> <p align=justify><font size=2> This website was created in August 2008 by Susan Laflin. Edward Roberts was webmaster from August 2009 to July 2010. Peter Jackson & Susan Laflin were joint webmasters from August 2010 until July 2011. In August 2011, Susan Laflin created this page and updated it in January 2012. </p> </BODY> </HTML>