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Medieval Matter HT26, Week 8

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We have made it, at long last, to the end of another Hilary term – but the events don’t stop coming! Please find below another week full of medieval events for you to enjoy, and an ever-increasing list of future opportunities. NB: the Maison Française d’Oxford lecture this Tuesday has had to move earlier and is now at 12:00.

Monday

  • French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 10:30, Weston Library.
  • Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript studies – 2:15, Weston Library. Seamus Dwyer (Cambridge) will speak on ‘Pen-Flourishing and the Boundaries of Meaning’.
  • Medieval Archaeology Seminar – 3:00, Archaeology Faculty.  Eugene Costello will be speaking on ‘Exploring the expansion of pastoral farming in northern Europe’s uplands, c.1200-1600’.
  • Medieval History Seminar – 5:00, All Souls College. Nick Evans (Birkbeck) “Cowries, Cloth and Coins: Currency in Medieval Economic Anthropology”.
  • Theory and Play: Comparative Medievalisms – 5.15, Lady Margaret Hall.

Tuesday

  • Europe in the Later Middle Ages Seminar – 2:00, New Seminar Room, St John’s College. Mike Carr (Edinburgh) will be speaking on ‘Popes, Ambassadors and Falcons: Trade and Diplomacy between Latin Europe and the Mamluk Sultanate in the Fourteenth Century’.
  • Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
  • Maison Française d’Oxford lectures: ‘Children in the Middle Ages’ – 12:00, Maison Française. NB. the new, earlier, time.
  • Maghrib History Seminar: “Reading the Qurʾān across the Mediterranean: Toward a Maghribī School of Tafsīr in Early Islam” – 5:00, The Queen’s College.
  • Medieval Church and Culture, theme: TRANSLATION(S) – tea and coffee from 5:00, Harris Manchester College. Celeste Pan (Balliol) will be speaking on ‘Some issues of translation in an illuminated Hebrew bible manuscript from medieval Brussels (Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibl., Cod. Levy 19)’.
  • Old English Hagiography Reading Group – 5:15, Jesus College Memorial Room.
  • Church Historian Pub Night – 6:00 at the Chequers Inn. Contact Rachel Cresswell.

Wednesday

  • History and Materiality of the Book Seminar series – 2:15, Weston Library. Matthew Holford and Laure Miolo will be speaking on ‘Text identification’.
  • Older Scots Reading Group – 2:30, Room 30.401 (Humanities Centre). Palyce of Honour, Thyrd Part, ll. 1288-2142; Palyce of Honour, Dedication, ll. 2142-2169.
  • The Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group – 4:00, online.
  • Islamic Studies Seminar – 5:00, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford) will speak on ‘Leviathan’s Health: State Capacity and Epidemics from the Black Death to Covid’.
  • Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. Nathan Websdale (Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Unbecoming Roman: Performative Ethnicity and Panspermía in the Byzantine World c.1190-1235’.
  • eCatalogus+: A Digital Tool for the Automated Study of Latin Manuscripts (Liturgical Case Studies) – 5:00, Weston Library. More infomation here.
  • Lydgate Book Club – Weston manuscript visit with Laure Miolo. Meet 3:50pm at the Weston lockers for a 4pm start. Please email Shaw Worth for any information.

Thursday

  • Middle English Reading Group (MERG) – 11:00, Lincoln College, Beckington Room. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
  • Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar – 4:00, Somerville College. Making and Breaking Connections, including letters sent by Hildegard von Bingen and Catherine of Lancaster, queen of Castile.
  • Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music – 5:00, online. Elisabeth Giselbrecht, Louisa Hunter-Bradley and Katie McKeogh (King’s College London) will be speaking on ‘No two books are the same. Interactions with early printed music and the people behind them’.
  • Celtic Seminar – 5:15, hybrid. Eleanor Stephenson (Cambridge) will be speaking on ‘Landscapes of Extraction: Philippe de Loutherbourg and the Morris Family’s Copper Works, Swansea’.
  • Medieval Visual Culture Seminar – 5:00, St Catherine’ College. Emily Guerry (University of Oxford) will be speaking on ‘Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum’.
  • The Khalili Research Centre For the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East: Research Seminar – 5:15, The Khalili Research Centre. Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (Freie Universität, Berlin) will be speaking on ‘A Greek-Orthodox monastery in the desert: Mount Sinai and the material culture of its Arabic (and Islamic) manuscripts’.

Friday

  • Medievalist Coffee Morning – Friday 10:30, Visiting Scholars Centre (Weston Library). All welcome, coffee and insight into special collections provided. This week, Jana Lammerding will speak on the representation of witches in the Douce Collection.
  • The History of the Bible: From Manuscripts to Print – 12:00, Visiting Scholars Centre at the Weston Library. Week 8: The Bible printed. Places are limited. To register interest and secure a place, please contact Péter Tóth.
  • Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room). Those who are interested can contact the convenor, Laure Miolo.
  • EMBI ‘New Books: A Celebration’. – 4:30, Schwartzman Room 421. Helena Hamerow and Conor O’Brien will talk informally about the process of researching and writing the projects that they have both just published, and we will also hear some reflections on being a postdoctoral researcher on a major project such as the ERC-funded grant for FeedSax. End-of-term drinks in Jude the Obscure, Walton St.
  • Oxford Medieval Manuscript Group – 5:00, John Roberts Room at Merton College. Julian Harison (Curator, British Library) will be speaking on ‘Sir Robert Cotton and Oxford’.

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eCatalogus+: A Digital Tool for Latin Manuscripts

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03/03/2026

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11 March, 5pm, Horton Room, Weston Library
Dr Paweł Figurski Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
eCatalogus+: A Digital Tool for the Automated Study of Latin Manuscripts  (Liturgical Case Studies)

The presentation introduces eCatalogus+, an innovative digital platform designed for the comprehensive description and automated analysis of medieval Latin manuscripts, with a particular focus on liturgical sources. At its core, eCatalogus+ combines HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) technology with advanced tools that improve transcription accuracy and enable the automatic analysis of manuscript contents. Its main features—powerful search functions, interactive databases, and collaborative research modules—facilitate both individual and collective work on medieval texts. The system has been successfully implemented in research projects such as eCLLA+ and Liturgica Poloniae: A Descriptive Catalogue of Polish Liturgical Manuscripts, where it supports the study, cataloguing, and interpretation of medieval liturgical sources. Through selected liturgical case studies, the presentation will demonstrate the platform’s research potential and its contribution to the evolving field of digital manuscript studies. Ultimately, the talk aims to show how digital technologies are transforming the study of medieval manuscripts, opening new avenues for both academic inquiry and public engagement.

Paweł Figurski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The focus of his research is on the history of liturgy and its political significance as well as on medieval manuscript culture, book illumination, and the theology of politics in the Early and High Middle Ages. He is also an active researcher, database analyst, and developer of tools for automated research on the Latin liturgical tradition in the field of digital humanities. He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of two projects: “Liturgica Poloniae…”, funded by the Polish Ministry of Higher Education (NPRH), and “Dangerous Prayers…”, funded by the Polish National Science Centre (SONATA)  

Please let Matthew Holford know if you would like to join him and the speaker for dinner after the talk.

Searching for History. A Workshop with Ian Forrest

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28/02/2026

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by Cris Arama (MSt. Medieval Studies)

Report on the workshop for the graduate students of the MSt. in Medieval Studies: ‘Fragments and photographs: what are we doing when we try to get close to medieval people?’ which started using examples from medieval records and Ian Forrest’s account of publishing with the photographer Martin Stott https://martin-stott.com/argehane-books/bartlemas-oxfords-hidden-sanctuary/

How do you find someone who lived in a leper hospital in Oxford nine hundred years ago? Not find them in the sense of retracing their biographical data—but stepping into their world, breathing life into their form. Founded by Henry I in 1126, the hospital of St Bartholomew, known as Bartlemas, cared for countless residents over the centuries. In addition to its beginnings as a leprosarium, it has acted as an almshouse, hosted a nursery between 1956 and 2009, and now fosters a culturally-diverse community, offering occasional services in its chapel.

What would it have felt like to step through Bartlemas in 1126, the moans of the ill reverberating into the night? What would it have felt like to reach for the supposed reliquary of St Bartholomew’s skin, desperate for the certainty of healing? These are the sort of questions Ian Forrest brought to the workshop held on February 20th 2026 at the Schwarzman Centre. It was inspired by the recent book ‘Bartlemas: Oxford’s Hidden Sanctuary’ (2025), in which an essay by Prof Forrest accompanies nearly a hundred photographs by Martin Stott of Bartlemas and its surroundings.

Together, we leafed through the photographs of Bartlemas as it exists today—the chapel rebuilt in the 17th century, the garden which has likely witnessed nine hundred years of continuous tending, and Muslim men kneeling in prayer, not unlike the countless Bartlemas brothers before them. Looking through the photographs, I was struck by two overlapping impressions: on the one hand, the vibrancy of the life which has been unfolding at Bartlemas for centuries; on the other, the ghostly absence of the countless people who spent their lives here. You would almost expect their memory to have left behind some physical trace, akin to geological layers. But it did not. We are left only with sparse biographical, financial and administrative records. Do they do justice to the richness of humanity that these people had? As historians, can we do more?

We discussed whether alternative ways of ‘doing’ history might help us achieve that. We started with a recent photo of a gardener at Bartlemas, a scythe propped on his shoulder. Perhaps taking a closer look at life in such spaces today, and finding echoes of the past in it, might help us to better imagine the full life of someone who lived there long ago. Henrike Lähnemann brought to the discussion a similar approach, sharing an interview she took at a German convent tracing its origins to Medieval times. Watching the Abbess of Kloster Lüne speak, her face lit in a kaleidoscope of warm yellows, blues and greens from the stained glass above her, it was not difficult to imagine a Medieval nun stepping softly through the same light. Nevertheless, looking at the experience of a place in the present can inform, but not elucidate, that of the past.

In an effort to fill in these gaps, we can also turn to the writings or even artwork left behind. For instance, as Henrike Lähnemann pointed out, it was commonplace for medieval German nuns to not only write prayer books, but to also illustrate them. Their humanity peeks out through the careful brush-strokes and the painstaking process which merged prayer with creation, the spiritual with the material. In manuscripts from Medingen Abbey, the pieces of gauze sometimes used to veil illuminations were likely of the same material of the nuns’ headdresses. When we examine such manuscripts, in which the creator and the creation are intertwined, we are brought closer to the person behind that process.

Lastly, we discussed the potential of fiction to capture the humanity of people long gone. It could allow us to step into the life of a resident at Bartlemas in the 12th century, imagining their routine of ointments and prayer, and perhaps their moments of wavering faith. We could imagine the deep ache in the shoulders of a nun at Medingen after a day spent hunched over parchment, sharpening her quill and watching flecks of gold float in the air after an illumination. In this sense, fiction could open the possibility for a truer account of human experience than what we can glean from sparse historical records.

There is no clear answer to this dilemma. If we stick too closely to historical data, we risk losing the fullness of humanity against the hard edges of fact. If we rely too much on imagination, we risk treading too far into speculation, ending up misrepresenting the very people we sought to understand.

Perhaps there is value in the act itself of asking these questions, as Ian Forrest guided us to do. Perhaps we begin to do justice to the unreachable past simply by paying attention to it.


Picture: Bartlemas Chapel (off Cowley Road) in Winter (Henrike Lähnemann 2020)

Borders, Boundaries and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages

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28/02/2026

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20 and 21 April 2026 in Oxford. Register by 9 March

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From the Call for Papers

Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers have become increasingly prominent themes in historical scholarship. Over the last decade, these concepts have been the focus of sustained scholarly interest, drawing especially upon theoretical frameworks and (trans-)national contexts. There is, therefore, a pressing need to examine how these constructs have shaped the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups, as well as how they were perceived, defined, and engaged with by those groups.

This conference seeks to reorient discussions around borders, boundaries, and barriers by foregrounding the experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups and considering how these divisions were perceived fromthe peripheries of societies. Rather than treating these concepts as abstract or solely geopolitical, we will explore the ways in which they have operated — both historically and historiographically — as tools of exclusion and differentiation.

Organised by Natasha Jenman (University of Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and Dean A. Irwin (University of Lincoln/OCHJS), the conference will focus on individuals, religious groups, social groups, societal constructions, and natural phenomena. Participants are invited to explore the role played by evolving borders, boundaries, and barriers in the medieval world as part of group identities; and how groups used them to their advantage. Likewise, it will consider the extent to which borders, boundaries and barriers have been imposed upon the medieval world by modern scholars. Possible topics for consideration include, but are not limited to:

  • Legal jurisdictions
  • The natural and the supernatural worlds
  • Socio-economic strata
  • Ritual and religion
  • Space, time, and the environment
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Disability
  • Transgression, delinquency, and the grey middle space

This conference adopts a broad chronological and geographical approach with submissions from all historically-related disciplines being welcome. The conference will take place on 20 and 21 April 2026 in Oxford. To submit, please send a title, abstract (c. 250 words), and a bio (c. 100 words) to: bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com. Any questions should be directed to the same e-mail address.
The organisers hope to be able to offer a limited number of bursaries for students and those on low income. Please indicate in your proposal whether you would like to be considered for
one of these if this becomes possible.

Image ref: Latin Psalter (13th-15th C), f.9 – BL Add MS 28681,



Kevin Crossley-Holland Reading

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25/02/2026

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Kevin Crossley-Holland will be reading from his newly-published Collected Poems in the Old Dining Hall at St Edmund Hall on Tuesday 3 March at 5:30pm.

Bringing together over five decades of work. Collected Poems celebrates one of Britain’s most admired and enduring voices. Kevin Crossley-Holland’s writing spans the landscapes of memory, myth and the human heart. Rooted in lived experience and rich in literary tradition, his poetry draws on folklore and the natural world to speak vividly to our own time. This landmark volume captures the full measure of his craft and imagination-a celebration of a lifetime devoted to words.

Kevin is a prize-winning poet, translator from Anglo Saxon (including Beowulf), re-teller of traditional tale (The Penguin Book of Norse Myths and Between Worlds: British Folk Tales), librettist and novelist for children, winning the Carnegie Medal for Storm and the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Seeing Stone, the first book in his Arthur trilogy.

He has collaborated with many composers, including Sir Arthur Bliss, William Mathias, Nicola LeFanu, Bob Chilcott , Bernard Hughes and Cecilia McDowall, and artists including Charles Keeping, John Lawrence, Norman Ackroyd and Chris Riddell.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was a Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Professor and endowed chair in the Humanities in Minnesota from 1991 until 1996, and served as President of the School Library Association 2012-2017. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Authors, and an Honorary Fellow of Saint Edmund Hall, Oxford.

“Kevin Crossley-Holland is a master, a magician and commander of the language, the roots of whose work are deeply entwined with ancient patterns of truth and knowledge. I salute and venerate him.” Philip Pullman

“This is a fantastic collection, and I love it. His poetry is so very rich and so varied, and covers such an impressive amount of ground. There are anthems, war cries, memories, love songs and hymns to the glory of nature, all written in language that is clear, robust, and sometimes luminously, breathtakingly beautiful.” Joanne Harris

Entry is free and no need to register.

New Hebrew Acquisitions in Christ Church

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14/02/2026

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You are warmly invited to attend our third pop-up display of the term: “What do Christ Church’s newly acquired Hebrew books tell us about the College in the 17th century?”

Where: Christ Church Upper Library (ask for directions at the Porter’s Lodge!)
When: 19th and 20th February, 12-2pm
Questions: library@chch.ox.ac.uk

Please join us for this pop-up display of some new and exciting Hebraica acquisitions, paired with items from our existing collections, with focus on the 17th century. Highlights will include Syriac, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts but also Hebrew calendar volvelles.

Entry is free and open to all. Please note that there is no step-free access to the Upper Library.

Dr Rahel Fronda, Hebrew and Judaica Deputy Curator, Bodleian Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG, T: 01865 277602
E: rahel.fronda@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

CfP: Forgotten Libraries: Lost, Dispersed, and Marginalised Manuscript Collections

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13/02/2026

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The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) is pleased to invite Oxford-based researchers to participate in the workshop Forgotten Libraries to be held at The Queen’s College (Oxford) on Tuesday 16 June. Conceived as the first stage of a broader research initiative, the workshop aims to bring together scholars working across linguistic traditions and historical periods to reflect on neglected manuscript collections and their significance for the study of textual cultures.

Within the dominant frameworks of manuscript studies, research have long been anchored in the analysis of individual codices and in major, well-defined collections that structure institutional and disciplinary narratives. Yet many manuscripts survive in ways that render them effectively invisible: scattered across different holdings, insufficiently catalogued, marginalised by new political and linguistic orders, or remembered only through fragmentary references. These “forgotten”, “lost”, or “marginalised” collections raise fundamental questions about how manuscripts and libraries contingently relate to knowledge production over time.

While the workshop’s emphasis falls on libraries and manuscript collections—their formation, coherence, disintegration, and afterlives—we also recognise that individual artefacts often reveal broader dynamics. Manuscripts are mobile objects: they migrate across regions, institutions, and epistemic frameworks, and this movement profoundly shapes their visibility, accessibility, and scholarly legibility. A single codex may preserve traces of an otherwise vanished collection; an isolated manuscript may retain ownership marks, organisational clues, or textual relationships that point back to a forgotten ensemble. Attention to both scales—the library and the single object—is therefore essential.

Participants will present short case studies illustrating how forgotten libraries can be located, reconstituted, or reintegrated into scholarly practice, whether through surviving catalogues, dispersed manuscripts, institutional histories, or digital tools. The workshop aims to: (1) Map the diversity and significance of forgotten manuscript collections; (2) Develop shared methodological approaches that integrate collection-level thinking with close artefact analysis and digital methods; (3) Reflect on the broader structural, institutional, and historical conditions that produce manuscript displacement, fragmentation, and neglect.

Beyond these immediate aims, the workshop constitutes the first phase of a larger collaborative project on forgotten and displaced manuscript collections. It will be followed by an international conference in 2027, and its results will contribute to a collective volume to appear in the forthcoming book series Manuscript and Text Cultures (Liverpool University Press).

The workshop will be held at The Queen’s College (Oxford) on Tuesday 16 June.

Abstracts of up to 300 words, together with a short biographical note, should be submitted by Friday 14 March to Shaahin Pishbin and Clément Salah

Book Launch: Medieval Commentary and Exegesis – Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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20/01/2026

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Medieval Commentary and Exegesis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Cosima Gillhammer and Audrey Southgate, includes chapters by Alastair J Minnis, Alexandra Barnes, Anna Wilmore, Audrey Southgate, Cosima Clara Gillhammer, David J Elliott, Edit Anna Lukács, Eduardo de Oliveira Correia, Elizabeth Solopova, Jiani Sun, Joshua Caminiti, Lesley Smith, Michael P Kuczynski, Rachel Cresswell, Simon Whedbee, William Marx, Zachary Guiliano.

More information on the volume can be found here. Use the voucher code BB135 for 35% off.

There will be a book launch at LMH on 24 February; all are welcome. For further details see below.

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Wikipedia Editathon for Medievalists

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18/01/2026

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Rescheduled: Friday week 2, Trinity Term 2026, 5–10pm, St Edmund Hall (tbc)
with Louise Tjoline Keitsch

This workshop invites everyone – students, researchers, and anyone curious – to take part in a Wikipedia Editathon for Medievalists. Whether you have always wanted to write or improve a Wikipedia article, are looking for a low-pressure way to start writing about your topic, or simply want a productive and enjoyable distraction from exams or papers, this editathon offers a space to do so!

Participants are encouraged to bring a topic they would like to work on: this could be a medieval object, person, concept or manuscript; an existing Wikipedia article that needs improvement; or an article that could be translated into another language. Prior experience with Wikipedia editing is not required – beginners are very welcome. Bringing a few sources is helpful, but online articles or similar are perfectly acceptable starting points.

The editathon is designed as a low-pressure entry. Participants can focus on clarity, structure, and communicating knowledge to a broad audience rather than perfection or originality in the academic sense. Contributions can be published immediately, offering a rare sense of instant gratification alongside meaningful scholarly engagement. Throughout the session, support will be available, either through a short introductory tutorial or hands-on help in small groups, depending on participants’ needs.

Editing Wikipedia means contributing to a vibrant, active community and helping shape what knowledge is publicly visible. Make a public impact, practice digital humanities, be part of a broader effort to make Wikipedia more equitable (for example by addressing the persistent gender gap in biographical articles) and increase the visibility and accuracy of medieval topics on the platform! Please come by to write, to learn, to experiment, and to contribute to shared knowledge – all while eating pizza at 6pm!

Can’t wait to start? Read Help:Getting started with Wkipedia, especially Help:Your first article.

Excellent (German) articles, that are enjoyable to read and can be used as an inspiration – and could be translated ;):

Gebetbuch Ottos III. | Monatsbilder | Haus zum Walfisch

If you have any questions, please send an email to Louise Keitsch at louise.keitsch@kunstgeschichte.uni-freiburg.de

OMS Lecture HT 2026: Ian Forrest

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Prof. Ian Forrest (Glasgow): Telling Tails: Weaponizing Gender in the Late Medieval Church

St Edmund Hall, Old Dining Hall

Thursday 19 February 5–6.30pm, followed by drinks

All welcome!

The fringes of the institutional church in the later Middle Ages were difficult to control. Pardoners, summoners, and priests of dubious status caused headaches for bishops and scandalized the public. The stories people told about them often concerned deceptive or ambiguous gender presentation. Touching upon famous fictions like Chaucer’s Pardoner and Summoner, and Pope Joan, the lecture will also examine the political culture of violent direct action against humans and their animals which sought to regulate gender and status at the edges of the medieval clerical estate.

After the talk and the drinks, there will be the opportunity to stay for a buffet dinner a in St Edmund Hall at 7pm. Please contact Henrike Lähnemann if you would like to take part in this. At 9:30pm, there will be the opportunity to take part in the Compline in the crypt of St-Peter-in-the-East, the library church of St Edmund Hall (more details on that in the current Medieval Studies booklet.).

This is linked with a workshop on Friday 20 February, 10am for the graduate students of the MSt. in Medieval Studies: ‘Fragments and photographs: what are we doing when we try to get close to medieval people?’ which will start using examples from medieval records and Ian Forrest’s account of publishing with the photographer Martin Stott.

Header image: Pope Joan / John VII in the Nuremberg Chronicle (Hartmann Schedel 1494)