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)

2. Aditi Gupta (Exeter, Oxford)

The Centre hosts the following two talks:

1. Julia Lorenz (Merton College, Oxford), ‘Konrad of Wüzrburg’s “Herzmaere”: An Instruction on How (Not) to Love’

2. Dr Alan Darmawan (SOAS, London), ‘Mapping Sumatra’s Manuscript Cultures’

The Centre hosts the following lecture: P. Toth (Oxford), ‘In Quest of a Medieval Best-Seller: The Authorship of the Meditationes Vitae Christi’.

The Centre hosts the following two talks: C. Gluchowski (Oxford), ‘Revising Devotion: Exploring Church Reform through Prayerbook MS. Lat. liturg. f. 4’; P. Rea (SSM Napoli / València), ‘Non ti maravigliare che io non mi distenda nelo scrivere: Female Autographs and Kinship in an Early-Modern Italian Epistolary Corpus’.