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We have made it to 8th week, and the sun has come out in celebration. The full booklet of weekly events, as always, can be found here. A few brief notes to begin: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Opportunities Until next term, Tristan

 A new DiSc-funded project within the Bodleian Libraries is working to transform the Bodleian’s TEI-encoded medieval manuscript catalogues into accessible tabular formats such as CSV, to support innovative research in manuscript studies and the digital humanities. By making these data more user-friendly, the team hope to foster new research avenues and collaborations. We kindly invite you… Read more: Call for Survey Responses: Enabling Digital Research on Manuscript Catalogue Data

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference Committee is pleased to announce the program for their twenty-first annual conference, held at the Maison Française d’Oxford on 24-25 April 2025, on the theme ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. Interested in attending? Register for in-person or online attendance on the conference website. THURSDAY, APRIL 24 9:00-9:25 Registration (in-person) 9:25-9:30 Opening remarks 9:30-11:30… Read more: Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference Registration and Programme Release

Welcome to week 7: the full booklet, as always, can be found here. A few important points to draw your immediate attention to: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Upcoming Opportunities

When? 26 April 2025, 12noon-5.30pm. Where? St Edmund Hall, Queen’s Lane, OX1 4ARPreparatory Meeting: 13 March 2025, 5-6.30pm, St Edmund Hall (ask at the Lodge for directions to Henrike’s office) The days are getting longer, the sun has come out for three days in a row (!), and the flowers in Teddy Hall are starting… Read more: Get Ready for the Medieval Mystery Cycle

The group continues to meet in hybrid format at Harris Manchester College (see photo!). We study the literature of the Anglo-Norman world (the insular French of the Middle Ages) in four collaborative sessions per term, presenting and translating texts chosen according to members’ needs or suggestions. The range of material is inclusive: romance, chronicle, saints’… Read more: The Oxford Anglo-Norman Reading Group

We are seeking a highly motivated, inspirational person to join our thriving academic community of historians and bring exciting perspectives to the teaching and study of Byzantine History at Oxford. You will have the opportunity to join one of the foremost global centres for teaching and research on the history of Byzantium, and to develop… Read more: Job: Associate Professor in Byzantine History

The Faculty of History and Wadham College are seeking an outstanding palaeographer to join the team of medieval historians. Medieval History is exceptionally strong in Oxford with a large and lively community of taught graduates, doctoral students and postdoctoral early career researchers.  The collegiate university is home to the largest university-based collection of medieval manuscripts… Read more: Job: Professor in Latin Palaeography

Talk: Breaking Walls, A Graphic Novel: Reflections on Public History. Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar Friday 28 February 2025, 5pm -7pm Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln College, Turl St, Oxford OX1 3DR Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar Hilary Term 2025 Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln College Week 6: Friday, 28 February 2025, 5pm Speaker: Dr Carolin Gluchowski… Read more: Medieval Women’s Writing Group

Invitation to a tea party with LIVING STONES on SATURDAY 15 MARCH 3.00-4.30 in the Church Hall, Church Way, Iffley OX4 4EG. Come along and find out about LIVING STONES. Meet the Living Stones volunteers. Join in: Living Stones is looking for volunteers of any age, background or beliefs Living Stones is the heritage and… Read more: Volunteering at Iffley Church

Welcome to week 6: the full booklet, as always, can be found here. This week features the last of the Ford Lectures: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne will be giving a lecture entitles ‘“Et lors que parlerez anglois /Que vous n’oubliez pas le François” (manuscript dedication, c. 1445): Off-shoring French?’. Of special interest to many of you will be… Read more: Medieval Matters HT25, Week 6

Krasis is a unique, museum-based, interdisciplinary teaching and learning programme, which began life at the Ashmolean in 2017, devised by classicist (and historian of ancient Boeotia) Dr Sam Gartland and Teaching Curator Dr Jim Harris. In 2018, the programme won a University of Oxford Humanities Division Teaching Excellence Award. Hilary term 2025 was its 22nd… Read more: Krasis: Object-centred symposia at the Ashmolean

Week 5 rolls around – stave off the blues with an extensive course of medieval events. The full booklet, as always, can be found here. Events Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Opportunities

The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures’ Hilary Term ‘Work-in-Progress’ colloquium – Tuesday 18th February (5.15-6.45pm, the Memorial Room at Queen’s)  The CMTC is delighted to be hosting the following speakers:  Dr Riccardo Montalto (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II): From manuscripts to history: The reconstruction of the Greek manuscript library of Achilles Statius (1524-1581) Achilles… Read more: CMTC presents — “Work in Progress” Colloquium

Welcome to Week 4. Please find below the events and opportunities for this week: the full booklet, as always, can be found here. A reminder: the deadline for the OMS Small Grants scheme is this friday – don’t miss out! Events Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday For your Calendar Opportunities

Friday 21 March 2025 11am–5pm The Bodleian Libraries have recently acquired a previously unknown manuscript from the library of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester. First written and illuminated in Paris towards the end of the 13th century, the manuscript is an early example of the translation of the New Testament into French. Owned by Jean le… Read more: From Jean le Bon to Good Duke Humfrey: a new manuscript witness to Anglo-French cultural exchange

Where? Exeter College Chapel When? 27 February 2025, 7pm A musical interpretation of the Tale of Beren and Lúthien. Stuart Lee, Readings. Owen Chan, Organ Free Admission

The 35th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM 35) will be hosted by the Department of English at the University of Málaga, 24th-26th September 2025. There is a long-standing link of SELIM to Oxford since offer Bruce Mitchell Award for early-career scholars which honours the memory of Dr Bruce… Read more: CfP: SELIM 35

The sun is out (for how long remains unclear), and third week is upon us. Please find below the events and opportunities for this week: the full booklet, as always, can be found here. Let me draw your particular attention to Brepols’ upcoming webinar introducing their International Medieval Bibliography (12th Feb at 4pm, see below).… Read more: Medieval Matters H25, Week 3

Welcome to Week 2. As always, we have an impressive set of medieval events for you to enjoy this week. A brief outline is provided below, but the full booklet can be found here. There is still time to sign up for the Medieval Mystery Plays on 26 April – just contact Antonia Anstatt and Sarah Ware. Of… Read more: Medieval Matters HT25, Week 2

October 24 – 25, 2025Binghamton UniversityBinghamton, NYSUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2025 Queer, trans, intersex, non-binary, genderfluid, and gender-nonconforming people and sourcesare abundant in the premodern textual, artistic, and artifactual record, and studies of gender andsexuality in the medieval period are flourishing as never before. Yet, work on the LGBTQIA+Middle Ages remains limited—especially in our classrooms… Read more: CFP: ‘Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250–1650’

Welcome back to a new term. I hope you’ve all had a chance to look through the OMS termly booklet, the most recent version in full colour glory can be found here. We’ve had a number of important updates since the booklet was last circulated, so do have a look back through. New additions include:… Read more: Medieval Matters HT25, Wk1

Members of the OMS community are invited to participate in The Great Viking Survey. The University of Oslo has recently launched the Great Viking Survey, a wide-ranging study to explore how people across the world perceive and engage with the vikings as history and heritage, and to map the many ways in which contemporary media and… Read more: The Great Viking Survey

In association with Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), and the Centre for Early Modern Studies Where: St Hugh’s MGA Lecture Room When: 24th March 2025 We have limited spaces for in-person participants but online participation will also be possible for the papers. Please email anna.wilmore@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk by 14th March to… Read more: The Sorrowful Virgin: Medieval and Early Modern Devotion

A performance of a medieval mystery play cycle, with a reconstruction of the no longer extant wedding at Cana episode. Directed by Philipp Quinn and Elliott Clark. When: Saturday, 25 January 2025, 2pmWhere: Pusey House, Oxford Philipp writes: We at Pusey House welcome all and sundry to join us as we continue our Epiphanytide celebrations… Read more: The Epiphanytide Mysteries

The Oxford/Groningen 2025 Old Frisian Summer School (OFSS25) will take place in Groningen (Netherlands), 7th-11th July. This will be a fun way to learn Old Frisian in a week, to view original Old Frisian manuscripts and to see the world heritage landscape of old Frisian ‘terps’ or dwelling mounds. OFSS25 : Old Frisian : A… Read more: Old Frisian Summer School 2025

Postgraduate Research Forum (hybrid), 2nd April 2025 This forum seeks to provide a supportive environment in which postgraduates can share ideas and get helpful feedback. Proposals are welcomed for 20-minute papers that explore the nuanced relationships between ‘Outsiders’ and ‘Insiders’ during the medieval period, which may include, but are not limited to: Defining Boundaries: Power… Read more: Call for Papers: ‘Outsiders – Insiders’ (University of Reading)