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- The Nuns’ New Year’s Greetings
Wishing all readers a Happy New Year! Post first published on the blog about the Medingen Manuscripts Sending Christ in the Heart from the Convent of Lüne On a New Year’s Eve in the first half of the 1480s, two young nuns in the convent of Lüne sat down to write to a woman they… Read more: The Nuns’ New Year’s Greetings - Exploring the Medieval Sky
Spring School: An Introduction to the “Science of the Stars” Through Manuscripts and Instruments Weston Library, 16–20 March 2026 Registration is now open for Exploring the Medieval Sky, a spring school designed for undergraduate and graduate students who wish to explore how medieval people understood the sky —encompassing the visible heavens (stars, planets, eclipses, comets),… Read more: Exploring the Medieval Sky - Bible Layout Through the Ages
Report on an In-Depth Crash-Course on the History of ‘the Book’ with Péter Tóth by Alice Lanyue Zhang (MSt. Modern Languages, 2025) This session of the History of the Book seminar at the Weston Library, led by Péter Tóth, focused on understanding the development of the Bible in its layout, languages, and content from the very… Read more: Bible Layout Through the Ages - Medieval Matter MT25, Week 8
Welcome, finally, to week 8. Today is the last day to enter your paper for the Medium Ævum Essay Prize and to register for Ars Inquirendi – Querying the Pre-Modern in the Age of Large Multimodal Models (including a free conference dinner at St Edmund Hall on Saturday!). As always, you can find a complete copy of the Oxford Medieval… Read more: Medieval Matter MT25, Week 8 - Book Launch: Landscapes and Producers in Medieval England
Essays presented to Rosamond Faith Thursday 4 December – 5.30pm. Main Lecture Theatre, Rewley House. 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JAThe launch of this festschrift for Dr Rosamond Faith will feature an introduction by the editors, an appreciation of the honorand by Professor John Blair (University of Oxford), and commentary by Professor Mark Gardiner (University… Read more: Book Launch: Landscapes and Producers in Medieval England - UArctic Congress 2026
Session 174: Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Medieval Literature This panel is proposed with acknowledgement of and sensitivity to the historic and ongoing mistreatment of indigenous peoples and their lands. We hope to foster meaningful discussion about representations of indigenous peoples in medieval literature, which has previously and erroneously been presented from a solely white,… Read more: UArctic Congress 2026