New directions in the study of written artefacts from Antiquity to the late Middle Ages. Organised by the Crafting Documents project (AHRC-DFG) and co-sponsored by the Centre for Manuscripts…

The conference brings together a diverse group of speakers, from the UK, Ireland, Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, and Germany. The aim of this two-day conference is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas, promoting intercultural and interdisciplinary exchange, discussing theories and techniques, comparing case studies, and sharing experiences. 

The Centre hosts the following lecture – Professor Daniel Schwemer (Würzburg): ‘Ancient Kings, a New Language (and sometimes wheelbarrows):  a decade of field epigraphy at the Hittite capital Boğazköy-Ḫattuša’ Abstract: For…

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)