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Provenance Unknown: Michaelmas Term 2024 Lecture
29 October 2024
Provenance Unknown: Michaelmas Term 2024 Lecture

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…

Michaelmas Term Lecture 2024
25 October 2024
Michaelmas Term Lecture 2024

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…

“Work in Progress” colloquium – Trinity Term 2025
30 September 2024
“Work in Progress” colloquium – Trinity Term 2025

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’

“Work in Progress” colloquium – Michaelmas Term 2024
“Work in Progress” colloquium – Michaelmas Term 2024

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’

Trinity Term Lecture
28 May 2024
Trinity Term Lecture

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

“Work in Progress” colloquium
22 April 2024
“Work in Progress” colloquium

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’.

“Work in Progress” colloquium
11 January 2024
“Work in Progress” colloquium

The Centre hosts the following two talks: A. D’Angelo (Rome ‘Sapienza’), ‘Catullan marginalia in the 16th century: the books of Piero Vettori’; M. Schilling (Oxford), ‘A special form of devotion – personifications of time in late medieval prayer books from Northern Germany’.

Hilary Term Lecture
25 October 2023
Hilary Term Lecture

The Centre hosts the following lecture: Patrick Finglass (Bristol), ‘Edgar Lobel and the text of Sappho’.

“Work in Progress” colloquium
12 October 2023
“Work in Progress” colloquium

The Centre hosts the following two talks: A. Ellis (Bern), ‘“Greek” in the Medieval Latin Manuscripts of Josephus: Reconstructing the Philological Workings of a Late-Antique Translator’; S. De Martin (Oxford), ‘Reassessing the transmission of Strato com. fr. 1 K.-A.’