We are pleased to announce that this Term’s joint Lincoln Unlocked / Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book lecture will be given by Dr Rebecca Menmuir, Simon and June Li Fellow in English Literature, Lincoln College, and her research colleague Simon Whedbee, Instructor of Classical Studies, Loyola University New Orleans.

This ‘Lincoln Unlocked’ lecture showcases Linc. Coll. MS lat. 27, a medieval manuscript containing the first-century CE epic poem of the life of Achilles, the Achilleid, by the Latin poet Statius. Owned by prominent Lincoln College donor and English humanist Robert Fleming, the manuscript unlocks a world of medieval and humanist intellectual culture. Examining the extensive notes added to this manuscript poem illuminates the ways in which the Classics were read and valued in the Middle Ages.

A display of Bodleian and Lincoln College manuscripts will situate Linc. Coll. MS Lat.27 amongst manuscripts of Statius and Lincoln’s special collections.

After the lecture, there will be a reception in Blackwell Hall.