During Michaelmas Term, OxTalks will be moving to a new platform (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
For now, continue using the current page and event submission process (freeze period dates to be advised).
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
The Medieval Book Club
Tuesdays 1530 – 1630, Weeks 1-8 via Microsoft Teams
We are a friendly and informal reading group. Each term we explore a new topic through primary texts. Undergraduates and graduates are extremely welcome, from any faculty.
Trinity 2020 Dress
1 – Dressed for Battle: The Fashion of the Nibelungenlied
2 – Dressing an Allegory – Boethius, Alan of Lille
3 – Fashion and the Law- Sumptuary Legislation
4 – Dressing the Contract – Boccaccio, Bartolus of Sassoferrato
5 – Other People’s Clothes: Dress and Otherness
6 – Ornaments and Piety: The Symbolism of Religious Habits
7 – Dressing Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue
8 – Second Hand Clothes – clothes in manuscripts and archaeology T.B.C.
If you want to join us, or would like more information, please contact oxfordmedievalbookclub@gmail.com. This year we need to know in advance who will be attending the sessions, and so we can add people to the MBC Teams account, so it is essential that you get in contact.
