The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar

Centre for the Reception History of the Bible

The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar
Michaelmas Term 2017

Week 2: Tools of Persuasion: The Illustrations of Luther’s
(16 Oct) Bible of 1534 as Propaganda
Dr Ann Jeffers
(Heythrop College, London)

Week 4: Biblical Art in Oxford series
(30 Oct) Biblical Manuscripts from Medieval Europe in the Bodleian Library *
Dr Martin Kauffmann
(Head of Early and Rare Collections and Tolkien Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, Bodleian Library)

  • This seminar will take place at the Weston Library and has limited spaces.
    Booking is essential. To reserve a place email christine.joynes@trinity.ox.ac.uk

Week 6: Reversing the Roles in Late Medieval and Early Modern
(13 Nov) Christian Thought: Jews, Christians, and the ‘Literal’ Sense of Scripture
Prof. Jon Whitman
(Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Week 8: Kipling and the Bible
(27 Nov)
Prof. John Batchelor
(Newcastle University)

Mondays: 5pm
The Danson Room, Trinity College
Convenor: Dr Christine Joynes
(christine.joynes@trinity.ox.ac.uk)

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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