- Medieval MSS Support Group at the Weston Libraryby Alison RayWe are pleased to trial a new session, once or twice a month, in which readers of medieval manuscripts can pose questions to a mixed group of fellow readers and Bodleian curators in a friendly environment. Come with your own questions, or to see what questions other readers have! The sort of questions you might… Read more: Medieval MSS Support Group at the Weston Library
- OMS Small Grants Now Open!by Henrike LähnemannThe TORCH Oxford Medieval Studies Programme invites applications for small grants to support conferences, workshops, and other forms of collaborative research activity organised by researchers at postgraduate (whether MSt or DPhil) or early-career level from across the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. The scheme has a rolling deadline. Closing date for applications: Friday of Week 4 each term for activities taking… Read more: OMS Small Grants Now Open!
- CfP: Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissanceby Henrike Lähnemann3–4 July 2025 / St John’s College, Cambridge. Deadline for paper submissions 9 January 2025 This two-day, in-person conference will explore developing traditions of silence in dramatic texts from antiquity to the Renaissance. Papers are sought from scholars across a range of fields, including classical reception, comparative literature, and medieval and/or early modern English literature.… Read more: CfP: Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissance
- The TORCH Network Poetry in the Medieval World after Two Terms of Activityby Ugo MondiniUgo Mondini is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and the Principal Investigator of the TORCH Network. He works on medieval Greek poetry and language education in the eleventh-century Byzantine Empire. As we approach our first summer break, it is time to reflect on the initial activities of… Read more: The TORCH Network Poetry in the Medieval World after Two Terms of Activity
- Launch of the ‘Life of Nuns’by Henrike LähnemannDuring the Medievalist Coffee Morning on Friday, 21 June 2024, Henrike Lähnemann launched her new book The Life of Nuns. Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers 2024, open access: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0397To purchase a paper copy with a 20% discount, use the code LONHL_24 at checkout On show were the following… Read more: Launch of the ‘Life of Nuns’
- Medieval Women’s Writing Research Group Conference 2024: Exchanging Wordsby Marlene SchillingThe Medieval Women’s Writing Research Group Conference 2024 will be held on 18th June 2024 with the theme of “Exchanging Words” in Room 2 of the Taylor Institution Library both in person (presenters/attendees) and online (attendees). Tuesday 18 June 2024, 9am – 5pmOnline and In-person, Room 2, Taylor Institution Library, Saint Giles’, Oxford OX1 3NAFree… Read more: Medieval Women’s Writing Research Group Conference 2024: Exchanging Words