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- Medieval Matters MT26, Wk 4
Welcome to Week 4 – please find attached the new booklet of events for this term. Two notes for this week. The first of the E A Lowe Lectures by Prof. Julia Crick takes place on Thursday 5:00 at Corpus Christi College, on the theme of ‘Script and politics: problems in the palaeography of a… Read more: Medieval Matters MT26, Wk 4 - Exhibition: Translating the Bible
Christ Church College, 13 October–16 December Open Tuesday 10am-1pm; Wednesday 1 – 4pm and other times by appointment. Please note that there is no step-free access. The Bible (from the Greek βιβλίον, The Book) has been the most influential written text ever produced. Portions are available in some 4,000 translations, nearly half of known languages,… Read more: Exhibition: Translating the Bible - Medieval Matters MT26, Wk3Welcome to week 3, and the return of the rain. As always, please find attached the new booklet of events for this term. We’d like to draw your attention to Mearcstapan, a student medievalist society at Oxford focused on making medievalism more accessible and inclusive. You can find out a little more about the society… Read more: Medieval Matters MT26, Wk3
- Court Studies Book Launch
Thursday, 29 October Habakkuk Room, Jesus College, 5:00pm‘The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval Court Cultures’ Presentations by editor Karl Kügle and authors Jane Gilbert, Christophe Masson, and Helen Swift - The German Historical Institute Medieval History Seminar
6–8 October 2027 The German Historical Institutes in London and Washington, D.C., are pleased to announce the fifteenthMedieval History Seminar, to be held in London from Wednesday, 6 October, to Friday, 8 October 2027.The seminar will bring together Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients (2026/2027) in medievalhistory from universities in the United States, Canada, the… Read more: The German Historical Institute Medieval History Seminar - ‘St. Laurence O’Toole and the Anglo -Norman Conquest of Ireland’
Dr. Jesse Patrick Harrington5pm, Floor Two, Arumugam BuildingSt. Catherine’s College, OxfordMichaelmas 2026 This series of four public lectures re-examines the political and religious history of England and Ireland at the time of the English/Norman conquest of 1169, through the life and afterlife of St. Lorcán Ó Tuathail (Laurence O’Toole, c. 1128–1180): architect of the twelfth-century… Read more: ‘St. Laurence O’Toole and the Anglo -Norman Conquest of Ireland’