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- Medieval Matters MT26, Wk1
It’s a new year! Welcome to all newcomers, and welcome back to the more seasoned members of the community. As always, we have a new booklet of events for this term. Please note the Oxford Medieval Studies Welcome Event this Tuesday at 5, held at Harris Manchester. Tea and Coffee provided, and a chance to… Read more: Medieval Matters MT26, Wk1 - ‘Creating Medieval Criticism Now’ event, 28 October
This term sees the first event in Dr Laura Varnam‘s John Fell Funded project ‘Creating Medieval Criticism Now’ on Wednesday 28th October at 5pm (3rd week) in the Goodhart Seminar Room at University College. All are welcome, please sign up via this Eventbrite link. Co-sponsored by the Guild of Medievalist Makers, the first seminar will… Read more: ‘Creating Medieval Criticism Now’ event, 28 October - Reformation Pamphlet Launch
When: Friday, 30 October 2026, 5-6:30pmWhere: Taylor Institution Library, Room 2 Call for Readers for the launch of Hans Sachs’ ‘Dialogue on Greed’ 450 years ago, Hans Sachs (1494–1576), one of the most influential German authors intervening in the Reformation debate, died. In 1524, he had published four highly successful polemical dialogues in pamphlet form.… Read more: Reformation Pamphlet Launch - Christine de Pizan & Gender in the Late Middle Ages
A special seminar series co-organized by Charlotte Denoël (Bibliothèque nationale de France) & Nancy Thebaut (Oxford) // generously supported by TORCH This interdisciplinary seminar will be an interactive forum for thinking about the work of the French author Christine de Pizan (d. 1429/30) in anticipation of a forthcoming exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France… Read more: Christine de Pizan & Gender in the Late Middle Ages - Peter Payne: A Forgotten Great European
Peter Payne: A Forgotten Great European was an international workshop taking place at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 30 September – 1 October 2026, co-organised by Elizabeth Solopova, Henrike Lähnemann, Hannah Schühle-Lewis and James Howarth. The workshop was generously funded by a grant from the John Fell Fund awarded to Elizabeth Solopova and Hannah Schühle-Lewis, supported… Read more: Peter Payne: A Forgotten Great European - MAMO 2027: Call for Papers
We are excited to announce preliminary details of the 6th Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference! Save the date of Tuesday 22nd – Thursday 24th June, 2027. Our location is Lincoln College, Oxford, UK (https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/). The 6th international MAMO conference will explore the ways in which the Middle Ages have been imagined, invoked, forged, refashioned, used and… Read more: MAMO 2027: Call for Papers