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’

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’.

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’.

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

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.’ 

The Centre hosts the following lecture: Mary Carruthers (NYU and Oxford), ‘Understanding Solid Figures in Early Medieval Manuscripts: how Rhetoric and Geometry interact’.

The Centre hosts the following conference: ‘Articulation of Silence from a Gendered Perspective’. The conference is co-organised by Dirk Meyer (University of Oxford), Lisa Indraccolo (Tallinn University), and Stefka G. Eriksen (University of Oslo).