Medieval Matters MT26, Wk5

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Welcome to 5th week – please find attached the booklet of events for this term. 

We have a bumper crop of events this week, and a number of opportunities to call your attention to:

  • The Call for Papers for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2027 is now open! More information.
  • GLAMorous work: Medievalist Pathways in Libraries, Book Trade, and Heritage Sector – 5-6pm,  Careers talk for medievalists, Old Library, St Edmund Hall. More information here.
  • Save the Date: on 7-10 July 2027, Oxford is hosting an international symposium on Franciscus Junius and his Books. You can find out more here.
  • Friday sees St Johns host the St Brice’s Day Commemorations with a set of talks. For more information, and to register, see 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.
  • Greek Palaeography Manuscript Reading Group – 15:00, Horton Room Weston Library. Contact Péter Tóth for further details.
  • IHR History of Liturgy Seminar – 3:00, Schwarzman Centre S2.402 (and online). Rhiannon Warren (University of Cambridge) on ‘Liturgy and Liturgical Books of Medieval Iceland’.
  • Medieval History Seminar: – 5:00, All Souls College. Muhammad El Fiky (King’s College London) on ‘Contesting Cheese: Islamic Law and the Limits of Legal Authority in the Medieval Egyptian Market’.
  • 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.
  • Medieval French Research Seminar – 5:00, Maison française d’Oxford. Sebastian Dows -Miller (University College, London) on ‘Scribal abbreviation in French manuscripts and its role as a source of data for quantitative palaeography’.
  • Lincoln Unlocked Lecture – 5:15, Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln College. Jo Story on ‘Luke’s Calf: Rethinking the 8th-C Insular gospel leaves in Lincoln College MS Lat.92’.

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
  • 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.
  • GLAMorous work: Medievalist Pathways in Libraries, Book Trade, and Heritage Sector – 5-6pm,  Careers talk for medievalists, Old Library, St Edmund Hall. More information here.
  • Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – 5:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. Peter Toth on ‘A New Byzantine Apocryphon: The Epistle of the Apostle James on Unleavened Bread’.
  • ‘St. Laurence O’Toole and the Anglo -Norman Conquest of Ireland’ Lecture – 5:00, St Catherine’s College. Jesse Patrick Harrington on ‘Ireland, the Papacy, and Renovatio Imperii’. More information here.
  • Bede Reading Group – 6:00, Blackfriars. Bede, wine, and merriment – all are welcome.

Thursday

  • Middle English Reading Group (MERG) – 10:00, Beckington Room, Lincoln College. The text this year is Troilus and Criseyde. Please contact Rebecca Menmuir.
  • Medieval English Research Seminar – 12:15, room 00.018 in the Humanities Centre. Anthony Bale (U of Cambridge) on ‘Towards understanding the literary tastes of later medieval English Knights Hospitalle’
  • Hebrew Bible Pop Up Display – 12:00 to 2pm, Christ Church Upper Library.
  • Older Scots Reading Group is CANCELLED this week.
  • Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music – 5:00, online. Davitt Moroney (University of California, Berkeley) on ‘Precursive canons, 1450–1600: Notation, Renotation, and Function’.
  • E A Lowe LEcture – 5:00, Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College. Julia Crick (KCL) on ‘Displacement’.
  • Medieval Visual Culture Seminar – 5:00,Arumugam 2.2, St Catz. Prof. Eric Palazzo on ‘Vivarium as a locus amoenus: Cassiodorus and his conception of Paradise’.
  • Celtic Seminar – 5:15, online. Ffion Mair Jones (CAWCS) on ‘Arglwyddesau, ofyddesau a chwiorydd: Cysylltiadau benywaidd Angharad Llwyd (1780–1866’.
  • Old English Graduate Reading Group – 5.15. Email for location.
  • Compline in the Crypt (Reformation music from 1524) – 9:30, St Edmund Hall

Friday

  • St Brice’s Day Commemorations 2026 – 10:00, St John’s College. More information here.
  • Medievalist Coffee Morning – 10:30, Weston Library. Elizabeth Solopova will speak on Peter Payne using Bodleian material. Check out the report on the recent Peter Payne workshop with video recordings for a sneak preview.
  • Hebrew Bible Pop Up Display – 12:00 to 2pm, Christ Church Upper Library.
  • Medieval Visual Culture Seminar – 2:00, Horton Room, Weston Library. Prof. Eric Palazzo on ‘A Sacramentary from Reichenau at Oxford’ (Manuscript Workshop)’
  • 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
  • Church historian pub trip – 6:00, The Chequers.

Opportunities (see booklet for more info)