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Welcome to week 7. From Tuesday til Thursday, productions of The Harrowing of Hell.26 continue, now in The Crypt of St Peter-in-the-East. Tickets can be bought here Free tickets are still available for the inaugural Lecture of theologian and medievalist Andrew Davison on Monday, 15 June, 5pm, in the Concert Hall of the Humanities Centre on… Read more: Medieval Matter TT26, Wk7 - CfP – Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity
The 2026 Journal of the History of Ideas Graduate Student Symposium, will be held online on October 17, 2026. The theme for this year’s Symposium is “Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity.” Graduate students at all stages of their program and working on different topics, periods, and regions are invited to submit a 500-word abstract on… Read more: CfP – Prophecy, Prediction, and the Politics of Futurity - Medieval Matters TT26, Wk 6
Welcome to sixth week! All week, from Tuesday through to Saturday, you can watch The Harrowing of Hell.26, a 2026 experimental and abstract adaptation of the medieval Harrowing of Hell narrative, created from English mystery plays (York Cycle, Towneley Plays, Ludus Coventriae, Chester Cycle) and rewritten into contemporary English. Performances are at 9:30, in the… Read more: Medieval Matters TT26, Wk 6 - The Creed in Music
Andrew Davison’s Inaugural Lecture: A thousand years of setting Christian theology to music Monday 15 June, 5:00pm. Auditorium, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities Join us as the Revd Professor Andrew Davison delivers his inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Divinity, exploring how Christian theology has been expressed through musical settings of the Creed across a millennium. The… Read more: The Creed in Music - Harrowing of Hell.26
The Harrowing of Hell.26 is a 2026 experimental and abstract adaptation of the medieval Harrowing of Hell narrative, created from English mystery plays (York Cycle, Towneley Plays, Ludus Coventriae, Chester Cycle) and rewritten into contemporary English. Week 6 — Burton Taylor Studio — 9:30–10:30pm – https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/the-harrowing-of-hell Week 7 — The Crypt of St Peter-in-the-East —… Read more: Harrowing of Hell.26 - Medieval Matter TT26, wk5Welcome to week 5, Last week’s Wikipedia editathon proved a great success, and there is now a wikipedia article for OMS itself! Thanks again to Louise for leading the session – a recording of the introductory talk can be found here. This Friday sees the ‘Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives‘ conference at the Weston,… Read more: Medieval Matter TT26, wk5