Week 7, and the prospects of the vac creeps ever closer! Two particular items of note this week. First, there is no Medieval History Seminar this week. Second, Prof. Roberta Mazza’s lecture for the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures has been postponed until next term. If you are looking for an alternative manuscript fix: come to the Medieval Manuscripts Support Group, following the Friday coffee morning this and next week.
As always, you can find a complete copy of the Oxford Medieval Studies Booklet here. Any last-minute changes will be updated in the weekly blogpost and in the calendar, both accessible via https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/.
Monday
- French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 10:30, Weston Library (Horton Room)
- Introduction to Arabic Palaeography – 2:00, Khalili Research Centre
- Carmina Burana: Graduate Text Seminar – 5:00, Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College.
- There is Medieval History Seminar this week.
Tuesday
- Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room)
- Medieval Church and Culture Seminar – 5:00, Harris Manchester College. Mark Vessey (UBC) will be speaking on ‘Some Problems in the Earliest History of the Latin Life of Antony’.
- Medieval French Research Seminar – 5:00, Maison Française d’Oxford. Prof. Francis Gingrass (University of Montreal) will be speaking on ‘Luttes fratricides dans l’Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César’.
- Old English Graduate Reading Group – 5:15, location TBC, contact Hattie Carter
Wednesday
- Medieval Hebrew Reading Group – 10:00, Clarendon Institute.
- John Lydgate Book Club – 11:00, Smoking Room (Lincoln College).
- Medieval German Graduate Seminar on the Constance Chronicle – 11:15, Somerville College.
- EMBI Mapping Workshop – 2:00 in room 00.056 of the Schwartzman Centre. A few spaces are still available – sign up here.
- Older Scots Reading Group – 2:30, Room 30.401 in the Schwarzman Centre.
- Medieval Latin Documentary Palaeography Reading Group – 4:00, online.
- Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre. Thomas Laver (Cambridge) will be speaking on ‘Estates, Economy, and ‘Holy Men’ in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries’
Thursday
- Middle English Reading Group – 11:00, Beckington Room (Lincoln College).
- Environmental History Working Group – 12:30, Room 20.421 in the Schwarzman Centre. Meeting details to be announced.
- Celtic Seminar – 5:00, hybrid. Gwen Angharad Gruffudd & Arwel Vittle will be speaking on ‘‘Dros Gymru’n Gwlad’: hanes sefydlu’r Blaid Genedlaethol’
- King Faisal Lecture – 5:00, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Professor Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi (Columbia University) will be speaking on ‘The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction’. All Welcome. No registration is required.
- Compline in the Crypt – 9:30pm, St Edmund Hall.
Friday
- Medievalist Coffee Morning – 10:30, Visiting Scholars Centre (Weston Library). All welcome, coffee and insight into special collections provided.
- Medieval MSS Support Group at the Weston Library – 11:30, Horton Room (Weston Library).
- Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room).
- Colloquium: ‘Journals, Past, Present and Future’, hosted by The Review of English Studies – 2:00, All Souls. Registration here.
- Launch of the Peasants’ War Pamphlet ‘Wider die Rotten der Bauern’ – 5:00, Taylorian, Room 2.
- Oxford Medieval Manuscript Group: Library Visit (Merton) – 5:00. Sign-up required.
- Prof. Roberta Mazza (Bologna)’s lecture for the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures has been postponed until next term.
Opportunities
- Medium Ævum Essay Prize welcomes applications. Deadline 1 December 2025.
- CfP: Saints Outside Hagiography. More information here. Deadline 15th Jan 2026.
- CfP: Canadian Society of Medievalists panels. More information here.
- Society for Court Studies Seminar – Charles Farris (HRP) will be speaking on ‘Of Wonderful Beauty: An Inventory of Jewels of Margaret of France in 1302’. More information here.
- AGRELITA, Université de Caen Normandie – call for applications “Visiting researchers” 2026. More information here.
- CfP: Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2026 – ‘Sounds and Silence’. Deadline 8th December 2025.
- Register before 30 November for Ars Inquirendi – Querying the Pre-Modern in the Age of Large Multimodal Models
- Call for Committee Members for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference.
- Data Visualization in the Humanities: Nodegoat Open Workshop.
- CfP: Locational Lives: Medieval Experience in Town and Country. Deadline 5th Jan 2026.
- CfP: Character Groupings in Classical and Medieval Art and Literature at the University. Deadline 5th Jan 2026.
- Mortimer History Society Essay Prize. Deadline: 15th February 2026.