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- Medieval Matter TT26, Wk 8
At last, week 8! We’d like to put together a survey of all the medieval opportunities and events that have taken place this year. If you’ve run a seminar series, reading group, or workshop, at any point this year, I would be very grateful if you’d send me a short report for inclusion by the… Read more: Medieval Matter TT26, Wk 8 - Ars Inquirendi 2026
Querying Pre-Modern Cultures with LLMs. Online / Oxford (in person) ; November 2026 (exact dates TBA shortly) Call for Papers & Workshops Following the first Ars Inquirendi conference in December 2025, we invite proposals for a second hybrid exploration of the impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) on the study of cultures before the dominance… Read more: Ars Inquirendi 2026 - Peter Payne: A Forgotten Great European
Peter Payne: A Forgotten Great European is an international workshop that will take place at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 30 September – 1 October 2026. It is co-organised by Elizabeth Solopova, Henrike Lähnemann, Hannah Schühle-Lewis and James Howarth. The workshop is generously funded by a grant from the John Fell Fund awarded to Elizabeth Solopova… Read more: Peter Payne: A Forgotten Great European - Medieval Matter TT26, Wk7
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