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OMS is the interdisciplinary platform for medieval studies across Oxford supported by TORCH. Posts by Henrike Lähnemann and Jana Christin Lammerding

The aim of the Durham Collections Fellowships is to enable and foster research across the three historic collections of Durham — those held by Durham University, Durham Cathedral and Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, all of which have internationally significant collections of books and other materials that deserve to be brought to a wider scholarly and public audience. In addition to libraries this includes archives, collections of visual and material culture, and architectural assets.
Home page of the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project beta website.
The 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays Film Launch. Thursday 19 June, 4:30-6pm, Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
Poster for Fragments of Lives. Friday 30 May. Lincoln College, Oakeshott Room. No registration is required. For all enquiries, please email laure.miolo@history.ox.ac.uk
Exhibition in the Old Library. The Old Library will be open today (29 April) and Thursday (1 May) from 10am-4pm. The exhibition is inspired by the theme of this year’s St Edmund Hall Community & Giving Week: #GiveItYourHALL and the 1317 Challenge. In the exhibition case will be items marking significant moments in the history of the Hall since our first mention in the rent rolls of Osney Abbey in 1317, including evidence of a bitter academic dispute about the name and origins of the College, the original Library rules and a relic of our patron St Edmund. Also on display will be record-breaking and significant works from the collection including the Library’s oldest book, the most recent addition to the Library and the best-selling work by an Aularian author. All welcome! If you can’t come on either day please contact Library@seh.ox.ac.uk and arrange an appointment.
Front page of the University of Oxford's Trinity Term 2025 Medieval Booklet.
Cover of the Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays programme, 26 April 2025 at St Edmund Hall Oxford
Still from a performance of the Apocalypse mystery play in a Romanesque crypt, featuring four costumed players representing Jesus, two angels, and a good soul
Dramatic poster for the Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays 2025, Saturday 26 April at St Edmund Hall, featuring an actress in a golden robe standing in a well.
Colour lithograph by Arthur A. Dixon titled "The Enemy is this Wicked Haman!" presented as a framed portrait.
Poster for The Epiphanytide Mysteries. A performance of a medieval mystery play cycle with a reconstruction of the no longer extant wedding at Cana episode. Directed by Phillip Quinn and Elliott Clark. 2pm, Saturday 25 January, Pusey House Oxford.
Medievalists Coffee Morning! Friday 10:30-11:30. Visiting Scholars Centre in the Weston Library. Access via the Readers Entrance on Museum Road. All medievalists working in Oxford welcome!
The MAA/GSC Grant will be awarded annually to an individual or graduate student group from one or more universities. The purpose of this grant is to stimulate new and innovative efforts that support preprofessionalization, encourage communication and collaboration across diverse groups of graduate students, and build communities amongst graduate student medievalists. Examples of such projects include: a graduate student conference; an online journal; a lecture or workshop series; a collective excursion to an archive, museum, architectural or archaeological site; performances (of medieval music, medieval drama, etc); or the creation of collaborative digital humanities projects, to name but several possibilities. This grant is therefore intended to support a wide range of activities by investing in the merits of innovative new approaches that simultaneously build professional communities and promote research, publication, and teaching. The deadline to apply for this grant of up to $2,000 is February 15th, but applicants should be advised that you must be a member of the MAA by January 15th to be eligible. Membership information may be found HERE. Interested folks may submit their application materials online HERE, and I'd be happy to address any questions directly via my email address (lel7qsf@virginia.edu) or via the GSC's email address (gsc@themedievalacademy.org). More full screen-readable information is available via the link in the first post.
Romanian Association of Philology and Biblical Hermeneutics (AFHBR) and Centre for Biblical and Philological Studies “Monumenta linguae Dacoromanorum” (ICI-DSU, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi) are pleased to invite you to the “Investigations into Romanian and European Biblical Traditions” International Symposium (14th Edition), Iaşi, Romania, 5–7 June 2025. Presentations should be 30 minutes in length (including 5-10 minutes for questions and discussion). After a peer-review process, the selected papers will be published in Reception of the Holy Scriptures: at the crossroads between philology, hermeneutics and translation studies (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Press, Iaşi). Please send paper proposals to: simpozionmld@gmail.com by 15 February 2025. Proposals should include a title, an abstract (150-200 words) and bibliography. Please also mention your institutional affiliation and academic degree. For more screen-readable details, see the booklet via the link in the first post.
Time: 12:00-17:00, 24 February 2025 Location: Room 2.20, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 1 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9EF Do you work with handwritten documents and need a tool that can perform automatic text recognition? Are you interested in automated methods but do not know where to start, or if they are worth your time? Come join us for this workshop with Joe Nockels (University of Sheffield) to learn more about automatic text recognition, machine vision, and how to use Transkribus. This is a joint event held between the Oxford Text Archive, READ-COOP, and the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture, and Society.
Create a Digital Edition using LEAF Commons. Time: 12:00-17:00, 13 February 2025. Location: MakerSpace, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. This is a joint event held between the School of Advanced Study's Digital Humanities Research Hub and the Oxford Text Archive, the UK repository for literary and linguistic data, based at the University of Oxford. Lunch will be provided. Please do join us! All welcome This event is free to attend, but booking is required. This event is in-person only at Senate House in London. Registration link: https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/create-digital-edition-using-leafcommons. More screen-readable information is accessible via the link in the first post.
This short course surveys the traditions and principles of scholarly editing and textual scholarship, complemented with hands-on workshops on the fundamentals of creating digital editions, including a rigorous overview of the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. This short course is part of the London Rare Books School Course Fees: · Standard: £90 · Concession*: £60 (*student/unwaged) This course will delivered via a mix of asynchronous video tutorials and live Zoom sessions on Wednesday and Friday, we will offer basic instruction in encoding text editions in TEI using a standard XML editor. The course is limited to 15 delegates and bookings must be made by the 21st January 2025. Registration link: https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/digital-editing
Images of the Sorrowful Virgin, whether in the form of Michelangelo’s Pietà, or Mary at the foot of the Cross on the Isenheim altarpiece are ubiquitous in medieval and early modern culture. Liturgically this was explored through the Stabat Mater, while vernacular writers found in the Marian lament a vehicle through which the Virgin could speak, offering a route for affective engagement with Mary’s suffering. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation inflected the ways in which the Sorrowful Virgin was presented, as devotions such as the Seven Sorrows served as spiritual models for more standardized monastic environments in the post-Tridentine period. Moreover, with colonisation of the New World, Marian devotion took on new emphases. This interdisciplinary workshop will investigate the Sorrowful Virgin in medieval and early modern culture, in which we aim to engage with some of these questions. The workshop will include a hands-on session with material objects and a performance of an early modern lament. We have entitled this workshop ‘The Sorrowful Virgin’ to encompass the many manifestations of this devotion, from the Seven Sorrows to the Mater Dolorosa and welcome broad interpretations of the theme. We are looking for proposals for 20-minute papers on all aspects of this devotion in medieval and early modern culture, and encourage submissions from those in the fields of History, Music, Medieval Languages and Literature, Theology, and Art History. Please send proposals of 250 words along with a short bio to Anna Wilmore and Taro Kobayashi by 24th January 2025. We aim to respond by the 1st February.
Are you interested in submitting to the journal Manuscript and Text Cultures? Please review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.
https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/junior-research-fellowship-in-manuscript-and-text-cultures/
The Oxford/Groningen 2025 Old Frisian Summer School (OFSS25) will take place in Groningen (Netherlands), 7th-11th July. This will be a fun way to learn Old Frisian in a week, to view original Old Frisian manuscripts and to see the world heritage landscape of old Frisian ‘terps’ or dwelling mounds. The Oxford/Groningen 2025 Old Frisian Summer School (OFSS25) will take place in Groningen (Netherlands), 7th-11th July. This will be a fun way to learn Old Frisian in a week, to view original Old Frisian manuscripts and to see the world heritage landscape of old Frisian ‘terps’ or dwelling mounds.
The TORCH Oxford Medieval Studies Programme invites applications for small grants to support conferences, workshops, and other forms of collaborative research activity organised by researchers at postgraduate (whether MSt or DPhil) or early-career level from across the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. The scheme has a rolling deadline. Closing date for applications: Friday of Week 4 each term for activities taking place during that or the following term. An additional deadline for summer activities and Michaelmas Term is last Friday of July. Grants are normally in the region of £100–250 and can either be for expenses or for administrative and organisational support such as publicity, filming or zoom hosting. They can also be used to support staging a play for the Medieval Mystery Cycle, e.g. for buying props or material for costumes. Recipients will be required to supply a report after the event for the Oxford Medieval Studies blog and will be invited to present on their award at an OMS event. Applicants will be responsible for all administrative aspects of the activity, including formulating the theme and intellectual rationale, devising the format, and, depending on the type of event, inviting speakers and/or issuing a Call for Papers, organising the schedule, and managing the budget, promotion and advertising. Applications should be submitted to Prof. Lesley Smith using either the word grant application form or fill out the online form. Informal enquiries may also be directed to Lesley. The Oxford Medieval Studies Programme money is administered by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the money will be paid out via their expenses system.
Week 5 Thursday, 20 February 2025, from 9:30 am to 5.00 pm. Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG. This group convenes once a term to read together unpublished Hebrew and Latin documents from Medieval England as sources for the history of the Jews before the expulsion of 1290.
This reading group is an opportunity to practise reading directly from images of medieval Hebrew manuscripts in an informal setting. No advance preparation is required and all skill levels are welcome! This year we will look at documents and manuscript excerpts from a broad range of the many genres found in medieval Hebrew texts, including scientific, literary, and legal. We will consider their palaeography, language, and historical context, and learn practical skills for reading unfamiliar handwriting, dealing with damaged texts, and interpreting dates and unusual vocabulary. There will be coffee, tea and cake from 11am in the Common Room of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies for those attending in person. Please note that in Week 5 the Medieval Hebrew Reading Group will join the Medieval AngloJewish Texts and History seminar (please see further information below); this will not be available for online participants. For further information about this reading group or for any other queries, please email Dr Joseph O’Hara at joseph.ohara@ccc.ox.ac.uk. In order to attend this reading group via Zoom, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xxbFantGTrifTi1mS-4P7g
Programme for the Oxford University Heraldry Society. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
We explore medieval poetry across regions and languages, with the guidance of an expert. Texts in the original language and their translation are shared in handouts, read aloud, explained, and discussed. The aim is to gain a global vision of medieval literature through poetry. Since we are driven by curiosity, the reading group evolves according to participants’ interests and interaction. We warmly welcome academics and students of any level and with any background. Coffee, tea, and biscuits are offered to participants. 11 February 2024, 4:30 PM: Michael Angerer on Old English Poetry. Location: t.b.d. The Reading Group is part of the activities of the TORCH Network Poetry in the Medieval World. For more information, see https://torch.ox.ac.uk/poetry-in-the-medieval-world or write an email to Ugo Mondini (ugo.mondini@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk)
Programme for Celtic teaching at Oxford. Please contact the relevant lecturer (mark.williams@ell.ox.ac.uk, david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk, nora.baker@jesus.ox.ac.uk, hannaghopwood@gmail.com) with any questions. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
The Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group continues to meet every Wednesday at 4pm for an hour or so on Teams when we read through and translate a variety of documents from the medieval archive at New College, giving an opportunity to engage with documents ranging from papal bulls to manorial and college accounts, from royal letters patent to manorial court rolls , from college statutes to deeds of title, and from letters to receipts. The document(s) to be studied will be circulated the day before. To join and/or to find out more, please contact michael.stansfield@new.ox.ac.uk.
All are warmly welcome to GLARE (Greek and Latin Reading Group). In Hilary Term we will meet on Thursdays at 2:30pm (a revised time from last term), at Exeter College, Stapeldon Room. The theme this term is ‘Greek and Latin Sci-Fi’. In odd weeks we will read Cicero's Dream of Scipio (De Re Publica 6.9, weeks 1&3) and Macrobius' Commentary on the Dream of Scipio (weeks 5&7). In even weeks (2,4,6,8) we will read Lucian's A True Story. For more information or to be added to the mailing list, please email ugo.mondini@exeter.ox.ac.uk and rebecca.menmuir@lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
The Oxford Anglo-Norman Reading Group will meet on Fridays of odd weeks: 24th Jan, 7th & 21st Feb, 7th March, at 5.00. We finish at 6.30. All are welcome, at whatever level (or none!) of French. We read a text together, helping one another as necessary, translating and discussing. Meetings are hybrid: on Zoom, or in person at The Farmington Institute in Harris Manchester College (top floor), thanks to our host Professor Lesley Smith. Wine and soft drinks are available, thanks to TORCH, to help our studies along. Texts will be provided in advance of each meeting (please bring your own copy, on paper or on screen, as we cannot provide photocopies). Please contact me for further details, Jane Bliss (jane.bliss@lmh.oxon.org).
The Old Norse Reading Group will take place at 5.30pm in the English Faculty Graduate Common Room, on Mondays of even weeks. This term we will be reading Hrafnkels saga. If you have any queries, please contact Mary Catherine O'Connor (mary.oconnor@balliol.ox.ac.uk)
5th February (Week 3), 12.15. English Faculty's History of the Book room. Our speaker is Ela Sefcikova (Berlin), who will be speaking on 'læ, lygð and slǿgð: Loki in Old Norse Literature'. The seminar will be followed by a sandwich lunch in the Graduate Common. All are welcome!
Germanic Reading Group Thursday, 23 January, 4:00‒5:00. Please contact Howard Jones Howard.Jones@sbs.ox.ac.uk to request the handouts and to be added to the list. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
Thursdays / 4-5pm / Weeks 1-8. Lincoln College, Beckington Room.* Join us to read the ‘double sorwe’ of Troilus and Criseyde in a weekly reading group. We will be reading from Book III. * In Weeks 7 and 8 we will be in Lincoln’s Lower Lecture Room - reminders will be sent out via the mailing list. For more information or to be added to the mailing list, please email rebecca.menmuir@lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
Oxford Medieval Manuscript Group. Fridays 5 pm (unless otherwise stated). For all enquiries, please write to: elena.lichmanova@merton.ox.ac.uk. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
We are pleased to trial a new format, once or twice a term, in which readers of medieval manuscripts can pose questions to a mixed group of fellow readers and Bodleian curators in a friendly environment. Come with your own questions, or to see what questions other readers have! https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2024/07/15/medieval-mss-support-group/ The sort of questions you might bring are: • What is the place and date of origin of this MS? • What is the place and date of origin of this binding? • What does the decoration of this MS suggest? • What does this semi-legible inscription say? • Whose bookplate is this, or how could I find out? Meetings will typically be held in the Horton Room (just across the corridor from the manuscripts reading room on the 1st floor). If you wish to pose a question, please order the relevant manuscript to the issue desk, and email the details to Matthew Holford, Tolkien Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, the day before, so that he can arrange for it to be transferred across to the Horton Room for the session. Alternatively, provide a good quality digital image that we can display on a large monitor. In the expectation that many readers will be at the Weston Library on Fridays for the weekly Coffee Morning in the Visiting Scholars’ Centre, the next such sessions are scheduled for the following dates: • Friday, 17 January (Horton Room) 2.00-3.00pm • Friday, 7 February (Horton Room) 2.00-3.00pm
Convened by Umberto Bongianino, Samir Shamma Associate Professor of Islamic Numismatics, Epigraphy and Material Culture. Venue: St Cross College, Sybil Dodd Room Time: Mondays, 10:30–12:30 Eight weekly reading and discussion sessions (2 hours each) on Islamic manuscripts, calligraphy, and the scribal traditions of the Arabic-speaking Mediterranean (7th–14th centuries). These sessions are aimed at students and researchers affiliated with the Faculties of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Medieval and Modern Languages, Theology and Religion, Classics, and History. A basic grounding in classical Arabic is required. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
For those wishing to develop, deepen or maintain their skills in Latin palaeography, we meet every Tuesday between 2pm and 3.30pm in the Weston Library (Horton Room or Visiting Scholars Centre). We explore a wide range of medieval manuscripts and documents from the 9th to the 15th centuries. The session includes analysis of different scripts, abbreviations and codicological features. Practice is the key to developing palaeographical skills and becoming more comfortable with different scripts, including the more cursive and abbreviated ones. The aim of this group is to teach the basic elements of each script and abbreviation in order to help in the direct reading and analysis of the manuscripts. Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo via email: laure.miolo@history.ox.ac.uk
Following the focus on medieval documents from Lincoln College last year, the seminar will now also include documents from Magdalen College in collaboration with Richard Allen (Magdalen College's archivist). Both Colleges holds an outstanding collection of archives predating the Colleges’ respective foundations. A part of those documents relates to several parishes of Oxford, such as All Saint’s, St Michael’s at the Northgate and others. This weekly one-hour seminar aims to investigate these unpublished documents, mostly deeds, dating back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, that bear witness to everyday life in Oxford at the time. Anyone interested in analysing primary sources and conducting a comprehensive examination of the documents are welcome to attend. Working in pairs on a self-selected source, the research will entail the examination of the record's external characteristics (such as writing surface, layout, marks of use) as well as transcription, translation, and identification of locations and individuals mentioned in the records to establish a context. Special importance will be given to the seals attached to these documents. As well as collaborating on unpublished sources, attendees will gain experience in digitisation of sources and publish their analysis online. Students will prepare their item for exhibition, and a one-day workshop on these sources will be held in Trinity Term. Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo via email: laure.miolo@history.ox.ac.uk
French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group This group is open to anyone with an interest in Old French, Middle French and Anglo-Norman manuscripts. We study and read manuscripts from the 12th century to the 16th century with a special focus on palaeography. We meet every Monday between 10.30am-12pm in the Weston Library. If you are interested in joining the group or would like more information, please write to Laure Miolo: laure.miolo@history.ox.ac.uk
5-6pm, St John’s College auditorium. Medieval art historian Beate Fricke will be giving a set of lectures this term. Attendees must book their place ahead of time. In writing history, the things that we do not know rarely play a starring role. These gaps in documentation about the past – blank spots in the material record and the archival apparatus – might all too easily be taken as indexes of moments in which nothing much happened. But from another perspective they are the sea surrounding what are truly infinitesimal islands of knowledge or the connective tissue that forms the basis for historical arguments about the fragmented forms of the past. These lectures attempt to recast the gap in this way, reframing assumptions and speculation as the normative condition of history writing rather than its aberration. And it seeks to expand from historical and historiographic notions of the gap to see the chasm, separation, schism, absence, and void within the objects of the past that we study and as central to their visual and material operations. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures. 5 February 5.30pm. WMTC Termly Lecture Memorial Room, Queen’s College. Elizabeth Frood (St Cross, Oxford), An Unexpected Script for an Unexpected Text: the tomb autobiography of the Egyptian Royal Secretary Tjay
Programme for the Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain and Ireland. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
Ancient and Medieval Seminar 21 January 2025, 4:30 PM. Vladimir Olivero (Harvard), From Jerusalem, through Alexandria, to the Caucasus: observations on the translation technique in the Armenian Psalter. Location t.b.d.
The TORCH Network Poetry in the Medieval World invites you to attend our lecture series featuring international researchers working on medieval poetry. For more information about the events and registration links for online attendance, please visit our website or contact Ugo Mondini at ugo.mondini@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
The Celtic Seminar is held jointly by Oxford and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), Aberystwyth. All Oxford seminars will be at 5.15 pm on Thursdays either hybrid (online and in person) or online-only via Microsoft Teams. When in person, they are in Jesus College (Memorial Room). Please contact david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk if you need a link to join online. All CAWCS seminars will be held online at 5.00 pm on Thursdays via Zoom, and, for hybrid seminars, in person at CAWCS. Please contact a.elias@wales.ac.uk for the link. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
The Medieval Women’s Writing Research Group meets to discuss everything to do with women’s writing in the medieval period. We hold a variety of events throughout the term. All welcome! Please see the individual dates for time and place of the session. Stay up to date with events by joining our mailing list or following us on X @MedievalWomenOx. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
The Khalili Research Centre For the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East: Research Seminar. Thursdays at 5:15 PM, KRC Lecture Room, 3 St John Street. All welcome. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
Oxford University Numismatics Society. Wednesday 19 February, 4-5pm, in the Ioannou Centre/Faculty of Classics' Lecture Theatre. Dr. Mike Shott (Oxford): “Cuneator ad Rex; Quid tibi vis hic..?”. Design features in the Long Cross issues of Henry III; a research project'.
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar. Convenors: Marc Lauxtermann and Ida Toth. Time: Wednesdays, 5pm. Venue: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St. Giles. Online: Join online via Microsoft Teams. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
Merze Tate Room, History Faculty, Oxford and online. Tuesday 28 January 16.15-17.45. Meia Walravens (Trinity College, Oxford), 'Bahmani Diplomacy: Correspondence between India and the Islamic world (15th century)' This paper discusses diplomatic letters sent from the Bahmani Sultanate in India (748–934/1347–1528) to powers in the wider Islamic world. Major correspondents of the Bahmanis included the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria, the Ottomans in Anatolia, the Aq Quyunlu in Iran and Iraq, and the Timurids in Khurasan. Based on a discussion of the letters’ content and rhetoric, this paper aims to demonstrate especially the influence of transregional intellectual and family networks over Bahmani diplomacy.
Mondays 3.00, Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Room. Convenors: H. Hamerow/J. Kershaw. Wk 2 (27 Jan): John Dinges. Moulding Emotions: Later medieval badges in England and Wales. + Caroline Croasdaile. Portable Reliquaries? English Late Medieval Containment Jewellery. Wk 4. (10 Feb): Wendy Scott. The Lenborough hoard. Wk 6 (24 Feb): Gabor Thomas, Roland Smith, Darko Maricevic. Old Windsor: A reassessment. Wk 7 (3 March): Helena Hamerow. Feeding Medieval England: A long ‘agricultural revolution’.
Organisers: Matthew Holford, Andrew Honey, Laure Miolo. Wednesdays 2-3.30pm. Venue: Weston Library, Horton room. Anyone interested in manuscript studies is welcome. No registration required. For questions, please e-mail laure.miolo@history.ox.ac.uk The series of seminars has been designed to introduce participants to the various material aspects of the book, thereby laying the foundations for the reconstruction of manuscripts' production and history. The objective is to provide the indispensable elements for the analysis of the manuscript. The seminars also provide a forum for specialists from different fields of manuscript studies to share their expertise. The sessions bring together curators, librarians, researchers and conservators to provide a comprehensive understanding of the various components of the codex from diverse perspectives. These components include the writing surface, ink, binding, decoration, manuscript production in its broadest sense, and its provenance. The seminars thus represent a valuable opportunity to demonstrate the necessity of close collaboration between researchers, curators/librarians, and conservators for a comprehensive consideration of the manuscript in its entirety. Such collaboration facilitates a more profound comprehension of the diverse contexts in which the manuscript was created, copied, and utilised. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
Seminars take place in the Weston Library, Horton Room, 2.15-3.45pm. Manuscripts will be shown. Convenors: Matthew Holford and Peter Toth. All are welcome. A University of Oxford card or Bodleian reader card is normally required to gain access to the seminar room. Remember to bring a £1 coin for lockers. Monday 27 January 2025 - Julia King, ‘Manuscripts In and Out of Syon Abbey’. Monday 10 February 2025 - Ugo Mondini, ‘Poetry and education in medieval Southern Italy’. Monday 17 February 2025 - Jo Edge, ‘Working with divinatory texts and manuscripts’. Monday 10 March 2025 - Lucio del Corso, ‘Greek papyri in the Bodleian Library. A tale of lost texts and forgotten books.’
The Medieval German Graduate Seminar meets Wednesdays 11.15am–12.45pm in the Old Library of St Edmund Hall. The first week will be a shortish planning meeting. The topic for this term are ‘Geistliche Spiele’. If you are interested to be added to the teams group for updates, please contact Henrike Lähnemann.
Maison française d’Oxford (www.mfo.ac.uk), except on week 1. Drinks will be served from 5pm; the presentations will start at 5:15pm. For more information and to be added on the seminar’s mailing list, contact sophie.marnette@balliol.ox.ac.uk. There will be no event in first week. Instead everybody is encouraged to attend the topical Ford Lectures delivered by Jocelyn WoganBrowne, Thursdays 5–6pm of weeks 1–6, starting on 23rd January:“Alle mine thegenas … frencisce & englisce”: The Languages of 1066 – And All That. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
Medieval English Research Seminar. Convenors: Prof. Laura Ashe and Prof. Francis Leneghan. Wednesdays 5.15pm, Weeks 1-6 Lecture Theatre 2, St. Cross Building. Seminars followed by a wine reception. All welcome! A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music We are pleased to announce the seminars for Hilary Term 2025. The seminars are all held via Zoom on Thursdays at 5 p.m. (GMT). If you are planning to attend a seminar this term, please register using this form. For each seminar, those who have registered will receive an email with the Zoom invitation and any further materials a couple of days before the seminar. If you have any questions, please send an email to Joe Mason at all.souls.music.seminars@gmail.com. A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar. Hilary Term, 2025. Thursdays at 5 pm. St Catherine’s College, Oxford, Arumugam Building 1.2 All are welcome! A full screen-readable programme is available via the link in the first post.