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- Copyists’ Slip in Dante
As part of the Italian Research Seminar, Ryan Pepin will speak on ‘Dietro la memoria non può ire’: Copyists’ Slips in the Textual Tradition of the Commedia. Time and Place: Monday, November 10th (5th week), Taylorian, Room 2, 1-2:30 PM Abstract: The enormous textual tradition of Dante’s Commedia – over 600 complete manuscripts – is a mine of… Read more: Copyists’ Slip in Dante - Workshop and Vespers for St Edmund
Saturday 15 November 2-7pm. An immersive afternoon of Renaissance music-making with ensemble In spiritu humilitatis, period instruments and the Choir of St Edmund Hall, ending in a performance of Vespers for St Edmund - Medieval Hebrew Reading Group
Weeks 1-4, 7-8 Thursdays 10:00-11:00 am Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG and online via Zoom: see link below. Convenors: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Joseph O’Hara 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… Read more: Medieval Hebrew Reading Group - Medieval Matter MT25, Week 4
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Opportunities - CfP: Shaping the Word- the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts inthe Early Medieval WestDurham University, 2–5 July 2026 In the second half of the first millennium, the Christian scriptures were produced,circulated, and put to use in a diverse range of forms and contexts. A manuscript mayaccommodate a single biblical text (the psalter, a gospel, the Apocalypse), a collectionof texts (the Hexateuch, the fourfold gospel), or, rarely, a complete… Read more: CfP: Shaping the Word- the Form and Use of Biblical Manuscripts inthe Early Medieval West
- CfP: Character Groupings in Classical and Medieval Art and Literature at the University
