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Information session: MSt in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford 

Are you interested in the study of Modern Languages on an advanced degree level? Would you like to be part of a large research community spanning seven languages, with research interests ranging from Medieval Studies all the way to Contemporary Literature Studies? Would you like to spend 9 months at one of the oldest universities …

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Introduction to Special Collections at the Taylorian

Welcome to the Taylor Institution Library!  The Taylor Institution is the University of Oxford’s library for  ...

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Introducing the Method Option “Palaeography, History of the Book and Digital Humanities”

The combined workshops and seminars for the Palaeography, History of the Book and Digital Humanities provide  ...

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Adapting the Nibelungenlied: Carl Otto Czeschka, Fritz Lang, and Ulrike Draesner

by Christopher Summers In 1908, a children’s book version of the Nibelungenlied in a retelling by Franz Keim  ...

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E A Lowe Lectures in Palaeography 2023

Manuscripts of Character: Codex, Ethos, and Authority in Byzantium and Beyond Professor Niels Gaul will  ...

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Caring for Collections at St Edmund Hall’s Old Library

Last week, we had the opportunity to have our session on ‘Caring for Collections’ and ‘Library Management’ at the  ...

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Latin Palaeography, or How to Write a Book  

By Charlotte Copeman Having spent the last five weeks building up our knowledge of manuscripts from paper, to ink,  ...

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Structures of the Manuscript, or What Makes a Book

By Ksenia Dugaeva In our ‘Structures of the manuscript book’ seminar last week, we continued our foray into  ...

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Violent Victorian Medievalism

Taylor Institution Library, 21 Nov-2 Dec 22 and online medievalism, n. the reception, interpretation or recreation  ...

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Parchment, Paper, Pigments & Ink

By Thomas Godfrey Understanding materiality can teach us a lot about a manuscript. Seeing as we will be looking at  ...

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“worten · ald mit werken” – Reminiscing about manuscripts, group projects and Covid 

A short report about my first time meeting Bodleian Library MS. Germ. e. 5 by Marlene Schilling To be honest,  ...

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Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures Michaelmas 2022 Term Card

the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) at The Queen’s College (Oxford) is hosting the termly “Work in  ...

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Dynamic Books and the Power of Good Data

By Kate McKee A blog post from 2019 by a former History of the Book student documents the findings of Professor  ...

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Video Update: Lena Zlock interviews Richard Ovenden about Burning the Books

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