Medieval Matters: Week 6 TT2021

31 May 2021
Caroline Batten
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Dear all,

We’re heading into week 6 and some sunshine at last! A few announcements to kick things off:

The Medium Ævum 2021 AGM and Lecture will be held this Friday, 4 June, at 4:30 pm on Zoom. This year’s speaker will be Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, on ‘Women and Multilingualism in Late Medieval England’, and you can register here.

Starting next week, we have a new graduate seminar running on Mondays at 5 pm for the month of June: Forgotten Christianities, a series run in collaboration with TORCH’s Critical Thinking Communities and Wolfson College’s Ancient World Research Cluster. You can learn more here, and look for the announcements in future emails.

The lyfe so short, the craft of seminars so long to lerne, / Th’assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering. - Geoffrey Chaucer, in a rare metrical slip-up

MONDAY 31 MAY

  • The Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar meets at 12:30 pm on Zoom. Please register in advance by contacting james.cogbill@worc.ox.ac.uk. This week’s speaker is Josh Hitt (St Hilda’s), ‘Ageing, Rejuvenation and Patronage in Twelfth-Century Byzantium’.
  • The Medieval Latin Reading Group meets 1-2 pm on Teams. Submit your email address here to receive notices.
  • The Medieval History Seminar meets at 5 pm on Teams. This week we hear from a panel of speakers — Annabel Hancock, Riccardo Liberati, and Nicola Carotenuto — on ‘Trust and Trade in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World’.

TUESDAY 1 JUNE

  • The Medieval Book Club meets at 3:30 pm on Google Meet. Contact oxfordmedievalbookclub@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list. This week’s theme is ‘Legends of a Saintly King’, exploring selections from Aelred of Rievaulx’s Life of Edward the Confessor.
  • The Early Slavonic Seminar meets at 5 pm on Zoom. Register here. This week’s speaker is Kristina Nikolovska (St Cyril and Methodios University, Skopje), ‘Early Modern Plague Writing in the Margins of South Slavic Manuscripts and Books’.
  • Medieval Church and Culture returns this week on Teams, on the MCC channel in the OMS Team. The meeting begins at 5 pm and papers start at 5:15. This week’s speaker will be Thomas Henderson (Linacre), ‘Twelfth-Century Mathematical Thinking: An Anonymous Fractions Treatise, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Auct. F.1.9’.
  • Bibitura Dantis Oxoniensis meets at 5:30 pm on Zoom (link here). This week, Rebecca Bowen reads Paradiso 21.

WEDNESDAY 2 JUNE

  • Digital Editions Live returns from 3-5 pm on Teams (join the meeting here). This week’s speakers, on the theme of Collective Editing and Linked Data, are Josephine Bewerunge, Molly Ford, Sam Heywood, Caroline Lehnert, Molly Lewis & Marlene Schilling, ‘A Collective Edition of a German Devotional Miscellany (MS. Germ. e. 5)’ and Danielle Apodaca, ‘Le Roman de Flamenca DH Project Across Editions and Translations’.
  • The Medieval English Research Seminar, also on Teams, meets at 4:30 pm; contact daniel.wakelin@ell.ox.ac.uk if you need the link. This week’s speakers are Mishtooni Bose and Annie Sutherland (Oxford), ‘The Flight of the Spiritual Director from the House of Fame’.
  • The Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar meets at 5 pm on Google Meet (link here). This week’s speaker is Grace Stafford (Oxford), ‘Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity’.

THURSDAY 3 JUNE

  • The Early Text Cultures Astronomy and Astrology Seminar meets at 3 pm on Zoom. Fill out this Google form to receive the link. This week’s speakers are Ari Silbermann (Bar-Ilan) and Giulio Leghissa (Toronto), discussing ‘Mythologies’ in the Book of Watchers and Hesiod.
  • GLARE (Greek, Latin, and Reception) Reading Group meets at 4 pm on Teams. Email john.colley@jesus.ox.ac.uk or jenyth.evans@seh.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list. This week’s reading will be Pliny the Younger, Letters, VI.16.1-3, 13-end.
  • In place of the Aquinas Seminar Series for the next two weeks, Bernd Goebel (Faculty of Theology, Fulda) will offer lectures and reading sessions on Anselm and Ralph of Battle at 4:30 pm on Zoom. This week’s topic is ‘Anselm and His Students on Our Relationship to Non-Human Creatures’. Register here.
  • The Celtic Seminar meets at 5:15 pm on Teams. Contact david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk for the link. This week’s speaker is Georgia Henley (Saint Anselm College), ‘Reading Geoffrey of Monmouth in South Wales and the Marches’.
  • The Medieval Trade Reading Group also returns this week at 7 pm on Teams. To be added to the team and have access to the reading materials, email annabel.hancock@history.ox.ac.uk.

FRIDAY 4 JUNE

  • Pre-Modern Conversations returns at 11 am on Teams to help you workshop your works in progress. Contact lena.vosding@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk for details.
  • The Oxford University Numismatic Society meets on Teams at 5 pm. For the link, email daniel.etches@new.ox.ac.uk. This week’s speaker is Maria Vrij (Barber Institute of Fine Arts/University of Birmingham), ‘How Do You Solve a Problem like Mezezios?: Understanding and Unpicking the Imagery of the Emperor Mezezios (668-669) and Constantine IV (668-685)’.

Gladly wolde [we] lerne, and gladly teche.