• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Lucia Akard (Oriel) , Lesley Smith (Harris Manchester) , Bee Jones (Jesus) , Sumner Braund (History of Science Museum)
• Timing: Tuesdays 17:15, refreshments from 17:00
• Web Address: https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2023/01/07/medieval-church-and-culture-seminar/

Tuesday 13 October 2015

• 17:00 - A Flemish Abbot meets Innocent II, 1141
  Chris Wickham (Oxford)

Tuesday 20 October 2015

• 17:15 - Lateran IV and Languedoc: reforming Church and society in the shadow of heresy
  John Arnold (Birkbeck)

Tuesday 27 October 2015

• 17:00 - Robert of Gretham's Miroir and Vernacular Pastoralia in 13thc England
  Dan Reeve (English Faculty)

Tuesday 3 November 2015

• 17:00 - The Papacy and the Monasteries of Medieval Wales
  Janet Burton (Lampeter)

Tuesday 10 November 2015

• 17:00 - The Fourth Lateran Council seen through the Lens of Jewish Service
  Anna Sapir Abulafia (LMH)

Tuesday 17 November 2015

• 17:00 - 'Ad Liberandam': model or muddle?
  Christopher Tyerman (Hertford)

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 17:00 - IVth Lateran in Later Medieval England: launchpad or limit?
  Vincent Gillespie (LMH)

Tuesday 19 January 2016

• 17:00 - Ephemeral Notes or Permanent Records? The status of the vernacular memoranda from eleventh-century Bury St Edmunds
  Sarah Foot (Christ Church)

Tuesday 26 January 2016

• 17:00 - Pagan Meat and Christian Taboo in Medieval Icelandic Law and Literature
  Timothy Bourns (St John’s)

Tuesday 2 February 2016

• 17:00 - Pilgrimage, Primacy and Two Saint Thomases: A Study of the Medieval English Motet 'Thomas Gemma Cantuarie’
  Elizabeth Nyikos (Magdalen)

Tuesday 9 February 2016

• 17:00 - Emotional Objects: a love letter from late medieval England
  Anna Boeles Rowland (Merton)

Tuesday 16 February 2016

• 17:00 - Where Angels Fear to Tread: the theological condemnation at the University of Paris, 1241/4
  Deborah Grice (LMH)

Tuesday 23 February 2016

• 17:00 - verfluocht und schendtlich: the religious other in the pilgrimage writing of Bernhard von Breydenbach
  Mary Boyle (Merton)

Tuesday 1 March 2016

• 17:00 - Why did the Patriarchs Live so Long? Some Thoughts about Longevity around 1300
  Yossi Ziegler (All Souls)

Tuesday 26 April 2016

• 17:00 - Mourning Young Children in the late Middle Ages in England AND Performance, Power, and Commemoration in late Middle English ‘Obituary’ Lyrics
  Seamus Dwyer (St Anne’s)

Tuesday 3 May 2016

• 17:00 - Local Variation in Germanic Myth AND The Role of Celtic Women in the Settlement of Iceland
  Francesca Moll (St Peter’s), James Parkhouse (Balliol)

Tuesday 10 May 2016

• 17:00 - Defining a Political and Religious Public in Fifteenth-Century England: reactionary rhetoric on heretics and rebels, c. 1414-1457 AND Was Crusading still popular in early-fourteenth-century England?
  Ciaran Davis (St Hilda’s), Margaret Woods (Blackfriars)

Tuesday 17 May 2016

• 17:00 - Studying Medieval Andalusian Music AND Ad audiendum delectabile: 'public' reading of civic chronicles in thirteenth-century Italy
  Lorenzo Caravaggi (Balliol), Marcel Camprubi (St Benet’s Hall)

Tuesday 24 May 2016

• 17:00 - Champagne Meets Burgundy: was the 15th-Century prose ‘Cligés’ a mirror of Philip the Good's court? AND Narratives of Rape in the French Courts and in Froissart’s Chroniques: the case of Marguerite de Thibouville, 1386
  Lucia Akard (Oriel), Andrew Lloyd (St Peter’s)

Tuesday 31 May 2016

• 17:00 - Boniface as Exile AND Splinters from a Holy Cross: sacred spaces in the cult of St Oswald, King of Northumbria
  Sumner Braund (Linacre), Maura McKeon (Exeter)

Tuesday 7 June 2016

• 17:00 - Pilgrimage Badges in a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours AND Visualising the Visionary: contextualising Paris, BnF, MS. Latin 14410
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Roisin Astell (Jesus), Avantika Kumar (St John’s)

Tuesday 14 June 2016

• 17:00 - No seminar: Medieval Studies lecture this week
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Tuesday 11 October 2016

• 17:00 - Sociological Questions for the History of Ethics
  David d’Avray (UCL)

Tuesday 18 October 2016

• 17:00 - Peter the Chanter’s Moral Dilemmas: examples of casuistry from the late twelfth century
  Emily Corran (St John’s)

Tuesday 1 November 2016

• 17:00 - Inside the Mind of a Heretic: moral psychology and heresy in the thirteenth century
  Gustav Zamore (Merton)

Tuesday 8 November 2016

• 17:00 - Counsels and Precepts in some Twelfth-Century Commentaries on the Lord's Prayer
  Philippa Byrne (Somerville)

Tuesday 15 November 2016

• 17:00 - Nostalgia and a Moral Ideal in the Fourteenth Century
  Hannah Skoda (St John’s)

Tuesday 22 November 2016

• 17:00 - Medical Ethics
  Peregrine Horden (All Souls)

Tuesday 29 November 2016

• 17:00 - What Was Abelard Aiming To Do In The Book He Called Ethics or Know Thyself?
  Michael Clanchy (IHR)

Tuesday 17 January 2017

• 17:00 - Sensory basics: sensus communis and imagination
  Mary Carruthers (NYU & All Souls)

Tuesday 24 January 2017

• 17:00 - Perfumed breasts. Smells in Williram of Ebersberg?s Song of Songs commentary
  Henrike Laehnemann (SEH)

Tuesday 31 January 2017

• 17:00 - Sound, theories of hearing, and musical violence in the thirteenth-century jeu-parti
  Joe Mason (Merton College)

Tuesday 7 February 2017

• 17:00 - The Sense of Taste
  Ed Wareham (Jesus College)

Tuesday 14 February 2017

• 17:00 - Robert Grosseteste and the Sense of Sight
  Hannah Smithson (Pembroke College)

Tuesday 21 February 2017

• 17:00 - Donatello’s Fingers: the Sense of Touch
  Jim Harris (Ashmolean Museum)

Tuesday 28 February 2017

• 17:00 - Discussion Session: pulling together threads from the term
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 25 April 2017

• 17:00 - Presentation of ERC-Funded Project Authority and Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought, c. 1220-1245
  Lydia Schumacher (King’s College London/All Souls)

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 17:00 - The Challenge(s) of Writing a Course Book in Latin for Medieval Historians
  Ida Toth (Wolfson College, Oxford), Andastos Omissi (Oriel College, Oxford)

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 17:00 - Sir Launfal on the Internet: A Case for Digital Editions / Luxury, Cultural Capital, and the (Re)Birth of Romance between Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire
  Julia Josfeld (Hertford College, Oxford), Mary Maschio (Queen's College, Oxford)

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 17:00 - Medieval Tenement Plots in Oxford and Southampton: Owners and Occupiers, Winners and Losers / ‘Udendo la ‘ngordigia’: Commercial attitudes in Boccacio and in Milanese Merchant Quaderni
  June Effemey (SEH), Henry Tann (St John's College)

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 17:00 - ‘may / By matrymoyne pees and unite / Been had’: Female Non-Conformity in Late Medieval Marriage / Chaucer, Boethius and Jean de Meung
  Jennifer Hohmann (Worcester College, Oxford), Audrey Southgate (Merton College, Oxford)

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 17:00 - Piers Plowman and Scholastic Theology / Vernacular Hagiography
  Conor McKee (LMH), Lauren Urbont (St Hilda's College, Oxford)

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 17:00 - The Carmina Burana and Papal-Imperial Conflict
  Alexander Peplow (Merton College)

Tuesday 10 October 2017

• 17:00 - A Thirteenth-Century Syrian History of Medicine
  Emilie Savage-Smith (St Cross)

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 17:00 - Seeing Muhammed in the Bible: on the lookout – in Isaiah 21:6-7 and elsewhere
  Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 17:00 - The Education of a Princeps (and a Parvus): Avicenna's (d. 1037) account of his formative years compared to that of John of Salisbury (d. 1180)
  Alasdair Watson (Bodleian Library)

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 17:00 - The Magic Square
  Farouk Yahya (Ashmolean Museum)

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 17:00 - A Quranic Manuscript from Medieval Morocco
  Umberto Bongianino (Wolfson)

Tuesday 14 November 2017

• 17:00 - A Medieval Persian Local History on Conversion
  Arezou Azad (Birmingham)

Tuesday 21 November 2017

• 17:00 - Doing Emotions in Medieval Arabic
  Julia Bray (St John’s)

Tuesday 16 January 2018

• 17:00 - How things matter: making relics meaningful
  Julia Smith (All Souls)

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 17:00 - Cloaks of sanctity: dress in the medieval fraternities
  Gervase Rosser (St Catherine’s)

Tuesday 30 January 2018

• 17:00 - Merovingian frontiers: the Scheldt-Lower Meuse area in the 7th-8th c.
  Irene Bavuso (IHR)

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 17:00 - The book of Margery Kempe: feelings, exemplarity, and purpose
  Laura Varnam (Univ)

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 17:00 - The first iconoclasm in Islam and the edict of Yazid II (AD 723)
  Christian Sahner (St Cross)

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 17:00 - Ibn Fadlan, historicity and the value of knowledge in the Abbasid Caliphate
  Peter Frankopan (Worcester)

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 17:00 - Special Event: Some objects from the Museum of the History of Science
  *This object handling session will take place at the Museum of the History of Science. If you would like to attend please email anna.boelesrowland@merton.ox.ac.uk by Friday 9th of February. Numbers are limited and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
  Silke Ackermann (MHS)

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 17:00 - The invisible culture of Anglo-Saxon ritual
  John Blair (Queen’s)

Tuesday 24 April 2018

• 17:00 - 'Problematizing Pilgrimage in Twelfth-Century England and Beyond'
  Anne Bailey

Tuesday 1 May 2018

• 17:00 - 'The Very Special Dead in Twelver Shi’i Islam’
  Fuchsia Hart

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 17:00 - Humiliation and Honour in the Nibelungen Tradition & ‘Die Mörin’ and ‘Die Heidin’: the representation of female pagans in fifteenth-century German Orient-literature for noble women
  Josefina Troncoso (St John’s), Natascha Domeisen (Wolfson)

Tuesday 15 May 2018

• 17:00 - Did Otfrid know Hilduin? Pseudo-Denys in Eastern Frankish monasteries & Dialogue and the Boundaries of Performance in Early
  Adam-Luca Walaszczynski (SEH), Benjamin Weinstock (St Hilda’s)

Tuesday 22 May 2018

• 17:00 - A Lollard Preacher and the Eucharist: De oblacione iugis sacrificii & Categorization of Religious 'Others' under Innocent III
  Eduardo Benitez-Inglott y Ballesteros (St Catherine’s), Kai Dowding (Balliol)

Tuesday 29 May 2018

• 17:00 - Anglo-Norman French in fourteenth-century England: the works of Nicole Bozon in MS Bodley 425 & The Changing Face of Aelfric’s Grammar: orthographic changes and scribal error in the Aelfric fragment of MS Barlow 35
  Sarah Bridge (St Cross), Lily Armstrong (Worcester)

Tuesday 5 June 2018

• 17:00 - How to be a Successful Abbot: peacemaking as a virtue of monastic leadership
  Claire Macht (Kellogg)

Tuesday 9 October 2018

• 17:00 - Trustworthy Men? Law and Priestly Power in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
  Conrad Leyser (Worcester)

Tuesday 16 October 2018

• 17:00 - The Art of Delegation: Empowerment and Medieval Hospitals in a World of Hidden Rules
  Carol Fry (St Cross)

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 17:00 - Medieval Histories of the Anthropocene
  Amanda Power (St Catherine’s)

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 17:00 - The Authority and the Power of the Queen in Arsacid Armenia
  David Zakarian (Oriental Institute/Pembroke)

Tuesday 6 November 2018

• 17:00 - Cardinals’ palaces in Schismatic Avignon (1378-1403). When buildings are weapons
  Christophe Masson (ERC-Project Music and Late Medieval European Court Cultures)

Tuesday 13 November 2018

• 17:00 - Ademar of Chabannes, Amalarius of Metz, and the Shaping of Carolingian Authority in Eleventh-Century Aquitaine
  Graeme Ward (Jesus)

Tuesday 20 November 2018

• 17:00 - Do we need to study identity in an age of global history? Some evidence from thirteenth-century Byzantium
  Catherine Holmes (University College)

Tuesday 15 January 2019

• 17:00 - The Beth Alpha Floor and the Archaeology of the Synagogue in Palestine
  Jas Elsner (Corpus)

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 17:00 - In the Clothes of Men: Women’s Mobility and the Book of Ruth
  Ben Williams (Oriental Institute)

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 17:00 - Allegory and the Formation of Genealogy: between Pauline and Rabbinic literature
  Yael Fisch (Oriel)

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 17:00 - Burchard of Worms, Jews and Food
  Bernard Gowers (Keble/Middlebury)

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 17:00 - Reading Hebrew Psalms in 13th-Century England: glosses and dictionary in MS Longleat House 21
  Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 17:00 - The Statute of Jewry of 1275: some problems
  Paul Brand (All Souls)

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 17:00 - Jewish Martyrdom in the First Crusade
  Anna Sapir Abulafia

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 17:15 - Civil Peace in the Political Thought of Some Early Fourteenth-Century Italian Dominicans
  Charles Briggs (University of Vermont)

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 17:15 - The Archaeology of Mendicancy in Medieval Oxford: the Blackfriars and Greyfriars and their Legacy
  George Lambrick (Department of Continuing Education)

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 17:15 - A Marriage of Convenience, Doomed from the Start? The Dominicans and the University of Oxford
  Cornelia Linde (German Historical Institute)

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 17:15 - Beginning mendicant medicine: English Franciscan views of healing, c. 1250
  Peter Jones (King's College Cambridge)

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 17:15 - Precepts, Counsels, and Caritas: Nicholas Trevet and the Rule of St Augustine
  Amy Ebrey (St John’s)

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 17:15 - Reading and Reform among Cistercian, Benedictine, and Dominican nuns in the Late Middle Ages
  Henrike Laehnemann (SEH)

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 17:15 - Word and Sacrament: the De Brailes Bible Missal (Bodleian Library, MS Lat. bib. e. 7) and the Dominican Liturgy
  Innocent Smith, O.P. (University of Regensburg)

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 17:15 - Pagans, Pilgrims and the Past: doing Church History with the detectorists
  Mark Philpott (St Stephen’s House & Keble College)

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 17:15 - Who Went to Church in Medieval England?
  Nicholas Orme (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 17:15 - How to chastize a Comes Africae: Augustine and Boniface
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 17:15 - Offshore thinking: thirteenth century English visitors to Rome
  Julian Gardner (Warwick)

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 17:15 - Uniformity and Diversity—the Franciscan Order under Bonaventure
  Jens Röhrkasten (Birmingham)

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 17:15 - The Platonic world soul as vita generalis in the ninth-century reception of Augustine’s De musica
  Nicholas Ball (Clare College, Cambridge)

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 17:15 - Geometrical Education and Twelfth-Century Architecture
  Karl Kinsella (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 17:15 - Collecting Frideswide’s miracles at Oxford in the early 1180s: Bodleian Library, MS. Digby 177
  Andrew Dunning (Bodleian Library)

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 17:15 - The virtues of secrecy and sexual knowledge in a late medieval English dream vision
  Alice Raw (St John's)

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 17:15 - Martyred Princesses? Sanctity and monastic reform in 10thc. English nunneries
  Sumner Braund (Bodleian Library)

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 17:15 - The Brothers of Syon Abbey: patterns of vocation from the Syon Martiloge and other records c. 1415-1539
  Virginia Bainbridge (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 17:15 - Fragments of a feminist history of the late medieval clergy
  Ian Forrest (Oriel)

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 17:15 - The moral economy of burying your dead: some early medieval attitudes towards burial and memorializing
  Roy Flechner (UCD)

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 17:15 - Open or Closed? Late Medieval Monasteries and their Visitations
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Benjamin Thompson (Somerville)

Tuesday 30 November 2021

• 17:15 - Isidore of Seville, the Carolingians, and the idea of the laity
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  David Addison (All Souls)

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 17:15 - The World of the Old English Martyrology: Carthage and the case of St Perpetua’s sword
  Luisa Ostacchini (Exeter)

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 17:15 - The Many Griefs of Merlin
  Emily Winkler (St Edmund Hall)

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 17:15 - Making Germans Sicilian in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  Philippa Byrne (Somerville)

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 17:15 - Christine de Pizan and Saint Christine: the power of women's speech
  Chimene Bateman (LMH)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 17:15 - Situating the Visionary: the politics of Mechthild of Magdeburg and Henry Suso
  Alice Spiers (St Anne's)

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 17:15 - "Eius filia incepit sugere mammillam dicte eius matris" (Life of St Nicholas of Tolentino): breast-feeding mothers in the later Middle Ages
  Hannah Skoda (St John’s)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 17:15 - Our Mother the University: maternal roles and the medieval university
  Elena Rossi (Magdalen)

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• 17:15 - Connecting the Dots: heresy, inquisitors and invisible women
  Delfi Nieto-Isabel (Queen Mary University of London)

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 17:15 - Royal Displays of Power in the Welsh Castles of Edward I
  Claire Holthaus (Christ Church College, Oxford)

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 17:15 - MCC Social
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 17:15 - Manuscript Showcase at the Weston Library
  N/A

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 17:15 - Marmoutier (Tours), a late Roman and early medieval monastery in the Loire valley (4th-11th centuries)
  Elisabeth Lorans (Univ. de Tours and All Souls)

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 17:15 - Working and Reworking the Astrolabe: astronomy and astrology as material culture
  Stephen Johnston (History of Science Museum)

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 17:15 - "Binding, if remarkable": approaches to cataloguing medieval bookbindings at the Bodleian Library
  Andrew Honey (Bodleian Library Conservation)

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 17:30 - A session at the printing press at the Bodleian Library
  Please note this seminar is on Wednesday at 17:30 at the Bodleian Library
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 17:15 - Combs and Inhumations: the presence of combs in burials c. 700-1000
  Charlotte Wood (University College, Oxford)

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 17:15 - Medieval Misogyny: horned women and unhorned men
  Eleanor Birch (Pembroke College, Oxford)

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 17:15 - Crying Rich Folks' Lauds: the social status of heralds in the late Middle Ages
  Emma-Catherine Wilson (Hertford College, Oxford)

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 17:15 - Scribes and Scripts: the curious case of early medieval relic labels
  Ana Dias (History Faculty, Oxford)

Monday 29 January 2024

• 15:30 - Exploring astronomical instruments and manuscripts
  Please note this event is on Monday, 15:30-16:30 at the Weston Library
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 17:15 - Women of the Conversion Period: a biomolecular investigation of mobility
  Helena Hamerow (Institute of Archaeology, Oxford)

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 16:30 - Bodleian Conservation Studio Visit
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 17:15 - The Body of St Benedict and the History of Monasticism
  James Miller (University College, Oxford)

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 17:15 - Pigment Identification: how, when, where, and why
  Richard Gameson (Durham University), Andy Beeby (Durham University)

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 17:15 - Oxford Medieval Studies Termly Lecture - Healthy Crusading in the Age of Frederick II: the puzzle of Adam of Cremona
  Peregrine Horden (All Souls College, Oxford)