The Centre hosts the following two talks: Benedetta Bessi (Venice/Stanford): ‘Towards a Digital Edition of the Liber insularum by Cristoforo Buondelmonti’; Joseph Mason (New College, Oxford): ‘Oral and Written Transmission in Old French Song: a reassessment’.

This forum brings together scholars working on different pre-modern cultures interested in the manuscript representation and transmission of early poetry.

Our inter-disciplinary forum will bring together scholars working on different pre-modern cultures interested in the manuscript representation and transmission of music.

Our two speakers are: Giulia Dovico (Classics, Cologne), ‘Scholia on Euripides’ Medea. Remarks on the two main corpora’ and Celeste Pan (Jewish Studies, Balliol) ‘The Targumic Tosefta on Genesis 44:18. A Material History’.

The Centre will host two online talks: “Ancient Slavery from the Perspective of the Papyri. New documents from Oxyrhynchus” by Amin Benaissa and “Liminal Landscapes: Childbirth and the Uncanny in Old Norse Literature” by Katherine Olley.