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- Ars Inquirendi – Querying the Pre-Modern in the Age of Large Multimodal Models
Register at https://form.jotform.com/252734707575364 (before 1 December 2025) Pre-recorded videos will be released on Friday 28th November. Sign up now to be notified and view ! NB: All times on the programme are GMT / UK Time Join leading pre-modernists and technologists from around the world at Ars Inquirendi, 4th-7th December 2025 (online / St Edmund… Read more: Ars Inquirendi – Querying the Pre-Modern in the Age of Large Multimodal Models - Sergei Zotov: Alchemical Images as Vessels of Knowledge
Merton College, 5 December 2025, 5pm Join the Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group for the final event in their Michaelmas Term ’25 programme in the Mure Room at Merton College at 5pm on Friday 5 December (Week 8) where Sergei Zotov (Warburg Institute, London) will speak on ‘Between Science and Allegory: Alchemical Images as Vessels of… Read more: Sergei Zotov: Alchemical Images as Vessels of Knowledge - The Secret Geometry Behind Words
Report by Leonie Erbenich, Visiting Graduate Student in Modern Languages, on a workshop with Giles Bergel for the History of the Book students in Modern Languages 2025. Cf. the History of the Book blog on the workshops in 2024 ‘Seeing Materiality through a Computer’s Eyes‘ and 2023 ‘Digital Tools for Image Matching‘ How Archivists can… Read more: The Secret Geometry Behind Words - Launch of Peseants’ War Pamphlet
Friday, 28 November, 5-6.30pmRoom 2 of the Taylor Institution Library The launch will feature a dramatised reading of the text and a display of the Taylorian holdings of German Peasants’ War pamphlets, followed by drinks. The new edition comprises a historical and bibliographic introduction as well as the edition, translation, and facsimile. Sneak preview of the… Read more: Launch of Peseants’ War Pamphlet - Medieval Matter MT25, Week 7
Week 7, and the prospects of the vac creeps ever closer! Two particular items of note this week. First, there is no Medieval History Seminar this week. Second, Prof. Roberta Mazza’s lecture for the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures has been postponed until next term. If you are looking for an alternative manuscript fix:… Read more: Medieval Matter MT25, Week 7 - CfP: Saints Outside Hagiography
We invite expressions of interest to participate in a new series of online workshops examining how saints and holy people are represented outside the classic form of the single-text hagiography, what Thomas J. Heffernan calls the ‘sacred biography’. This group aims to bring together scholars interested in saints and sanctity across global history and culture,… Read more: CfP: Saints Outside Hagiography