Welcome 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 here – do encourage your students to get involved, and do consider getting involved yourself!
Ever behind the times (see 1209), Cambridge have taken a leaf (or, perhaps, an entire bough) from our book and established their own interdisciplinary network for medieval studies. You can access their booklet of upcoming events, and their new website, here.
Monday
- French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 10:30, Weston Library. If you are interested in joining the group or would like more information, please email the convenor Laure Miolo.
- Greek Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 15:00, Horton Room Weston Library. Contact Péter Tóth for further details.
- Medieval History Seminar: – 5:00, All Souls College. Catherine Holmes (University College, Oxford) on “Byzantium: A Kinetic Commonwealth?”
- Medieval Latin Reading Group – 5.30pm in Merton College. The text this term is Ysengrimus.
Tuesday
- Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2pm, Weston Library. Those who are interested can email the convenor Laure Miolo.
- Byzantine Literature Lectures – 4:00, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter College.
- Lecture – 4:00, Weston Library. Christophe Masson (University of Liège) on ‘A look into Avignon libraries. Books written or owned by cardinals during the Great Western Schism (1378-1403)’
- Medieval French Research Seminar – 5:00, Maison française d’Oxford. Mireille Seguy (Université Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle) on ‘Quelle foi accordait -on aux fictions au Moyen Âge ? Le lecteur au miroir de la métalepse (XII e-XV e siècles)’
Wednesday
- Medieval German Graduate Seminar – 11:15, Somerville College. The topics for the term will be Frauenlob, Kreuzleich and Minneleich. If you are interested to be added to the teams group for updates, please contact Almut Suerbaum
- Oxford Centre for Medieval Britain and Ireland Welcome Lunch – 12:45, Balliol. Sign-up sheet here.
- Byzantine Text Seminar – 3:00, Kloppenberg Room, Exeter College.
- Old Norse Reading Group – 4:00. Please email Brooklyn Arnold for the location
- The Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group – 4:00, online. To join and/or to find out more about this and the possibility of some hands-on experience of cataloguing such documents to develop further your research skills, please contact Michael Stansfield.
- Guild of Medievalist Makers – 5:00, Goodhart Seminar Room at University College. Workshop: Creating Medieval Criticism Now Series by Laura Varnam . ‘The Forms of Criticism’ with Susie Campbell (poet), Nik Gunn (historical novelist), and Esther McManus (cartoonist/illustrator) . Registration required: event page
- Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. Anna Lampadaridi, on ‘Translating and Rewriting a Latin Legend into Greek: the Life of Hilarion by Jerome (BHL3879)’.
- Bede Reading Group – 6:00, Blackfriars. Bede, wine, and merriment – all are welcome.
Thursday
- Middle English Reading Group (MERG) – 10:00, Beckington Room, Lincoln College. The text this year is Troilus and Criseyde. Please contact Rebecca Menmuir.
- Medieval English Research Seminar – 12:15, room 00.018 in the Humanities Centre. Patrick Outhwaite (U of Groningen) on ‘Doctor-patient interaction in late-medieval England’.
- SCRIPTORIUM: Understandig the Medieval Page – 2:00, Weston Library. More info here.
- Older Scots Reading Group – 3:00, Room 30.401 in the Schwarzman Centre.
- Court Studies Book Launch – 5:00, Habakkuk Room, Jesus College. ‘The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary
- Perspectives on Late Medieval Court Cultures’.
- Celtic Seminar – 5:15, Room 00.056 in the Humanities Centre and online. Ned Tomos on ‘Hawliau iaith a chwalu’r drefn ryngwladol’.
- Compline in the Crypt (Reformation music from 1524) – 9:30, St Edmund Hall
Friday
- Medievalist Coffee Morning – 10:30, Weston Library. Henrike Lähnemann and Tim Powell will speak on Reading Reformation Pamphlets, from 16th cent. Nuremberg to the GDR
- Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Magdalen College. As space is limited, registration is required. Those interested in participating are invited to contact Laure Miolo
- Launch of Hans Sachs: Dialogue on Greed – 5:00, Taylorian Institute. More info here.
- Oxford Medieval Manuscript Group (OMMG) – 5:00, Merton College (Mure Room). Professor James Marrow (Princeton University) on ‘The Cleves-Mark Prayer Book: A Dismembered Work of Lower Rhenish Manuscript Illumination of ca.1500. Please join us for a drinks reception.
- Guild of Medievalist Makers making space session – 5:30, online. Optional theme: horrors.
- Church historian pub trip – 6:00, The Chequers.
Opportunities
- The German Historical Institute Medieval History Seminar. Deadline 31 January 2027. More info here.
- CfP – Unexpected Journeys: New Pathways through Iberian History. More information here.
- Call for Readers of Early New High German for the launch of a Hans Sachs dialogue on 30 October. More information
- Call for Committee Members: Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2027 – contact ox********@***il.com.
- OMS Small Grants open. Closing date for applications: Friday of Week 4. More information.
- Medieval Afterlives: Cultural Programme Open Call – investment of up to £10,000, see booklet.
- The Multicultural Middle Ages podcast proposal for 6th season. Applications are due October 15th.
- Medieval Manors Research Network/Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Notre Dame. Art (History), English, German / Slavic / Eurasian, History and Philosophy of Science, Initiative on Race and Resilience, Philosophy, Romance Languages, Theology; international applications and medievalists welcome!
- Publishing with the Journal Manuscript and Text Cultures – see booklet for details.
- John W. Baldwin Post -Doctoral Fellowship. A two-year position beginning July 1, 2027, for recent Ph.D. recipients whose work focuses on European medieval studies within a global comparative context. The application deadline is November 13, 2026 .