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 of handling medieval manuscripts is desirable

Limited places, write to the email below by 22/01/2025

Week 3, 7 February, 17:15            

The Queen’s College Library Visit

Limited places, write to the email below by 1/02/2025

Week 4, 14 February, ONLINE     

Reading Group: Interpretation and Meaning

Beatrice Kitzinger, ‘Working with Images in Manuscripts’ (2020)

Paula Mae Carns, ‘Making and Unmaking Love in the Macclesfield Psalter’ (2023)

Michael Camille, ‘Introduction’, in The Medieval Art of Love (1998)

Write to the email below to join         

Week 5, 21 February, Merton College, Hawkins Room          

Work-in-Progress Session

Emma Nelson | University of Manchester           

Book Owners and Donors in Twelfth-Century Lincoln

Blanche Darbord | University of Cambridge

Alexander the Great and Chivalry in Plantagenet England

Week 7, 7 March, Merton College, Mure Room   

Nancy Thebaut | Art History Department and St Catherine’s College, Oxford

Learning to Look: (Mis)reading the Visitatio sepulchri, ca. 900-1050

Organisers: Irina Boeru, Fergus Bovill, Ana Dias, Charly Driscoll, Antonia Delle Fratte, Elena Lichmanova, Mathilde Mioche, Celeste Pan, Klara Zhao.

For all enquiries, please write to: elena.lichmanova@merton.ox.ac.uk