Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group  – Trinity Term 2025  Fridays 5 pm (unless otherwise stated)  Week 1, 2 May               Merton College Library Visit Previous experience of handling medieval manuscripts…

The Centre hosts the following lecture – Professor Tamara Atkin (English Faculty & The Queen’s College, Oxford): ‘On Fragments’ Abstract: In 2019, The Foundation of Christ’s Hospital at Lincoln…

The Centre hosts the following two speakers: 1. Dr Laure Miolo (Lincoln, Oxford): ‘Predicting and observing eclipses in fourteenth-century Paris: what the manuscripts tell us‘ 2. Dr Shazia Jagot…

The Centre hosts the following lecture: Dr Elizabeth Frood (Oxford), ‘An unexpected script for an unexpected text: the tomb autobiography of the Egyptian Royal Secretary Tjay’ Abstract: Sometime between…

Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group – Hilary Term 2025 Fridays 5 pm (unless otherwise stated)   Week 1, 24 January, 15:00             Balliol Historic Collections Centre Visit Previous experience…

The Centre hosts the following two speakers:

1. Dr Riccardo Montalto (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

2. Holly Dempster-Edwards (University of Liverpool)

The Centre hosts the following lecture: Christopher Whittick,‘“I found it in a skip” – provenance and priorities in British archives’ In a career in county archives spanning 44 years, Christopher…

The Centre hosts the following lecture: Dr Annick Payne (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), ‘Anatolian Hieroglyphs: Drawing a Picture of the Ancient Mind’ The Anatolian Hieroglyphic script, a mixed logo-phonetic…

The Centre hosts the following two speakers:

1. Dr Laure Miolo (Lincoln, Oxford): ‘Predicting and observing eclipses in fourteenth-century Paris: what the manuscripts tell us’

2. Dr Shazia Jagot (University of York): ‘Astrolabe as archive and an archive of astrolabes: Chaucer’s astrolabe and its Islamic affordances’