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 multilingual island’. This series provides an opportunity to reflect on the implications for traditional palaeography in a politically contested space.
Next week, Christ Church are hosting an exhibition on translating the Bible featuring, among others, Brasenose College’s 13th century Founder’s Bible. More information 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.
- Books Medievalists Should Know – 2:00, Lincoln College. The focus this weeks is The Bible and associated texts.
- Greek Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 15:00, Horton Room Weston Library. Contact Péter Tóth for further details.
- Medieval Archaeology Seminar – 3;00, Instittue of Archaeology. Duncan Wright on ‘Cada’s minster and S ǣwine’s burh: the evolution of an early medieval power centre at Saintbury (Glos)’.
- Medieval History Seminar: – 5:00, All Souls College. Clare Downham (Liverpool) on “The genealogy of Ívarr the Boneless”
- 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
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
- Christine de Pizan & Gender in the Late Middle Ages Seminar – 2:00, Weston Library. Estelle Guéville (Yale) on “How Exceptional Was Christine de Pizan ? Scribal Practices and Women’s Book Production in Late -Medieval Europe”; Prof. Sophie Marnette (Oxford) on “How Exceptional Was Christine de Pisan? Writing Women in the 12th and 13th centuries”.
- 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.
- Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. Gaetano Spampinato on ‘An “Excluded” or”Included” Third? Jews and Judaism in John of Damascus’s Writings on Islam’.
- Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain and Ireland ‘A Celebration of New Books’ – 5:00, Balliol, Old Common Room. A discussion and Q &A with Robert Gallagher (Kent), Ryan Lavelle (Winchester), Francis Leneghan (Oxford) &Alex Traves (Oxford) talking about their new books, the arguments they make, the stories they contain, and how they came to write them. Chaired by Jo Story. All Welcome
- Mearcstapan – 5:30, Jesus College. Georgie Anderson on ‘Black Knights’.
Thursday
- Middle English Reading Group (MERG) – 10:00, Beckington Room, Lincoln College. The text this year is Troilus and Criseyde. Bring any edition of the original text! There will be tea and biscuits. For more information or to be added to the mailing list, please email Rebecca Menmuir.
- Medieval English Research Seminar – 12:15, room 00.018 in the Humanities Centre. Amy Faulkner (UCL) on ‘The lives of the Evangelists in Old English’.
- Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar – 4:00, Magdalen College (meet at lodge). – Social Commentary, including extracts from the works of Kassia of Constantinople and Teresa de Cartagena.
- E A Lowe lecture – 5:00, Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College. Julia Crick on ‘Two Islands’. This lecture takes another look at the palaeography of post -Roman Britain and Ireland, at some of its troubled twentieth -century history, and at major shifts in understanding over the last three decades. In particular it asks where we stand on the fraught question of the identification of Irish and English script.
- Celtic Seminar – 5:15, Room 00.056 in the Humanities Centre and online. Kit Kapphahn (Aberystwyth) on ‘Love and praise in medieval Welsh panegyric’.
- Compline in the Crypt – 9:30, St Edmund Hall#
Friday
- Medievalist Coffee Morning – 10:30, Weston Library. Gary Rendsburg will speak on Queen Elizabeth’s Book of Oxford. Coffee and tea provided
- 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
- Oxford Medieval Manuscript Group (OMMG) – 4:00. Library Visit: Wren Library, Cambridge Manuscript workshop and tour of the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge. Limited places.
- Church historian pub trip – 6:00, The Chequers.
Opportunities (see booklet for more info)
- CfP – Unexpected Journeys: New Pathways through Iberian History. More information here.
- Call for Committee Members: Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2027 – contact oxgradconf@gmail.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.
- 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 .
