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This webinar (Thursday 17/Friday 18 February 2022), centres around the Murbach hymns, a Latin hymnal with Old High German interlinear glosses from the ninth century, whose manuscript and textual context will be examined, as well as, on a wider scale, the use and function of vernacular language in the early Middle Ages. The manuscript MS. Junius 25 and other glossed manuscripts from the Bodleian Library will be presented and analysed, giving the audience the opportunity to view these valuable objects up close. In three discussion sessions, the materiality of the manuscripts and their content will be set in context with each other, drawing a connection between the object and its use. The focus will initially be on the texts of MS. Junius 25. In further sessions, the use of vernacular language in different cultural contexts and the emergence and function of (vernacular) glosses will be explored.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 17th of February
2pm - 3pm (GMT): Meet the Manuscript: MS. Junius 25 and the Murbach Hymnal
- Prof. Dr Daniela Mairhofer (Princeton)
3.45pm - 5pm (GMT): A Textual Analysis of the Manuscript
- Prof. Dr Michael Stolz (Bern): Marginalien zu MS. Junius 25
- Dr Elke Krotz (Vienna): The Glossaries Junius A, B and C
- Dr Matthias Standke (Berlin): Murbacher Hymnar? Begriffs‑ und Überlieferungsgeschichte: Versuch einer Einordnung
9.15pm (GMT): Singing from the Manuscript
Friday 18 February
9am - 10am (GMT): Vernacular Language in Use
- Prof. Dr Alderik Blom (Marburg): Two Old Frisian Glosses on the Psalms
- Dr Helen Gittos (Oxford): Vernacular languages in medieval liturgy
11am - 12pm (GMT): The Practice of Glossing
- Prof. em. Dr Elvira Glaser (Zurich): Funktionen volkssprachiger Glossen
- Prof. Dr Stephan Müller (Vienna): Alliterations and Abbreviations. How to discover the German language between Latin lines of the Murbach hymns
2pm - 3.30pm (GMT): Meet the Manuscript 2: Consultation of other Glossed Manuscripts from the Bodleian
- Prof. Dr Daniela Mairhofer (Princeton)
The presentations and papers will be published online before the event. Questions for the speakers can be asked during the sessions or before the event via Twitter (#MurbachHymns) or email (luise.morawetz@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk, reference: Workshop Murbach Hymns).
If you have any questions, please contact Luise Morawetz (via email or Twitter).
In association with the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).
For more medieval matters from Oxford, have a look at the website of the Oxford Medieval Studies TORCH Programme and the OMS blog!
