Medieval Matter MT25, Week 8

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30/11/2025

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Welcome, finally, to week 8. Today is the last day to enter your paper for the Medium Ævum Essay Prize and to register for Ars Inquirendi – Querying the Pre-Modern in the Age of Large Multimodal Models (including a free conference dinner at St Edmund Hall on Saturday!). 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/. As a little Oxmas gift, have a look at Péter Tóth explaining the layout of this early polyglot Bible fragment in the Bodleian Library, the newest contribution to the OMS Youtube channel.

Monday

  • French Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 10:30, Weston Library (Horton Room)
  • Introduction to Arabic Palaeography – 2:00, Khalili Research Centre
  • Medieval Archaeology Seminar – 3.00, Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Room. Aleks Pluskowski, will be speaking on ‘Re-thinking the “Green Revolution” in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th-16th centuries)’
  • Carmina Burana: Graduate Text Seminar – 5:00, Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College.
  • Medieval History Seminar – 5:00 with drinks reception to follow, All Souls College. Robert Swanson (University of Birmingham) will be speaking on “Margins, marginality, and marginalisation: drawing lines within and around late medieval Catholicism”

Tuesday

  • Latin Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room)
  • Medieval Church and Culture Seminar:  5:15pm, Harris Manchester College (tea & coffee from 5.00). Antonia Anstatt (Tübingen): ‘Holy Emotions? Love, Grief, and Anger in the Later Medieval Lives of Elizabeth of Hungary’

Wednesday

  • Medieval German Graduate Seminar – 11:15, Somerville College. The topic for this term is Ulrich von Richental, Chronik des Konzils zu Konstanz (1414-1438).
  • 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. Olivier Delouis (Paris) will be speaking on ‘Byzantium in Correspondence: 171 Letters of Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus to Non-Greek Byzantinists (1875–1911)’

Thursday

  • Middle English Reading Group – 11:00, Beckington Room (Lincoln College).
  • Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar – 4:00, Somerville College. – Poetic Exchanges, Including poems by Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Muhja bint al-Tayyani, Tecla de Borja and ‘Vayona’
  • Medieval Visual Culture Seminar – 5:00, St Catherine’s College. Kristine Tanton (U of Montreal) will be speaking on ‘Seeing Anew: Digital Methods and the Return of the Medieval Object’.
  • Celtic Seminar – 5:00, hybrid. Merryn Davies-Deacon (Belfast) will be speaking on ‘Lexical prescription in Breton: what does it involve and who is taking notice?’
  • Book Launch: Landscapes and Producers in Medieval England – 5:30, Main Lecture Theatre, Rewley House. A wine reception, with opportunity to purchase copies of the volume, will follow. More information here.

Friday

  • Medievalist Coffee Morning – 10:30, Visiting Scholars Centre (Weston Library). All welcome, coffee and insight into special collections provided.
  • Followed by the Medieval Manuscript Support Group 11:30, also in the Weston Library, Horton Room – to get help with a manuscript from a panel of experts, use the form on the website
  • Exploring Medieval Oxford through Surviving Archives – 2:00, Weston Library (Horton Room).
  • Oxford Medieval Manuscript Group ‘Reading Group’ – 5:00, online

Opportunities