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Palaeography Seminar: Medieval manuscripts master classes Hilary Term 2022, Mondays, 2:15 pmRegistration required: https://forms.office.com/r/F6NjbWuhpTYOU MUST BE REGISTERED 24 HOURS BEFORE THE SEMINAR TO RECEIVE A LINK TO ATTEND ONLINEIn-person seminars, if offered, will meet in the Lecture Theare, Weston Library. 17 Jan (week 1) No seminar31 Jan. (week 3) Matthew Cheung Salisbury, ‘A late medieval English noted breviary (MS. …
In collaboration with Digital Scholarship@Oxford (DiSc) and the Digital Hub at Jesus College, the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory (OCTET) is organising a brief introduction to Digital Scholarly Editing on 2 November 2022 (5pm – 6pm) at Jesus College’s Ship Street Centre (University of Oxford). The speakers are Emma Huber and Joshua Schäuble. …
On 29 October 2021, there will be a festive in-person launch of the ‘Passional Christi und Antichristi’, edited by Edmund Wareham. In June, there was already a launch of the online edition, 500 years and three weeks after the first edition of the pamphlet came out in Wittenberg. The paper version, part of the Taylor …
by Henrike Lähnemann On 4 August 2021, Mark Butler, an Oxford medical researcher working in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine , entered the Sobell House Charity Shop on Little Clarendon Street where a batch of framed leaves, prints and other miscellaneous donations had been placed at the back of the shop. Recently, while talking about my teaching of …
From the Bodleian Events Team: Thank you for booking to attend our digital event, Singing Together, Apart: drama and medieval chant on 14 June 2021. The recording of the event is available here. Please complete our short feedback form, if you have not already done so. Your comments will help us improve future events and …
As a follow-up of the Digital Edition Launches during Trinity Term 2021, Medium Aevum, Dark Archives, OCTET, and Oxford Medieval Studies are offering a work contract for a Graduate Student to archive the material since a vital part of any digital scholarship today is maximising the scope for its long-term preservation and accessibility to other …
Some remarks on the reception of the Antithesis figurata vitae Christi et Antichristi and the Passional Christi und Antichristi. Revised version of the address given by Ulrich Bubenheimer during the launch of the new edition An effective method for researching the reception of a 16th-century edition is the so-called Exemplarforschung, i.e. recording as many surviving …
Wanted: Oxford Graduates for ‘History of the Book and Digital Humanities’ UNIQ+ graduate internship project Emma Huber and Henrike Lähnemann are looking for two Oxford graduate students to work from Monday 5 July to Friday 13 August for overall 35 hours each at the tutorial rate of £27.76 per hour (£31.30 per hour including holiday …
Oxford Bibliographical Society, Publication beyond printing. 27th May 2021, 5.15 pm. In a series of ‘lightening talks’, eight Leverhulme Doctoral Students will present their research: Aoife Ni Chroidheain, Natascha Domeisen, Edward Jones, Daria Kondakova, Micah MacKay, Rosemary Maxton, Katie Noble and Daniel Wojahn This event will be held virtually, by ZOOM. To attend please contact …
On 10 May 2021, the 500th anniversary of the death of Sebastian Brant, the show-and-tell session brought together a multilingual array of his European bestseller, the Ship of Fools, live from the Bodleian Library, the British Library and the Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. Copies presented: Sebastian Brant: Narrenschiff. Basel: Johann Bergmann von Olpe, 12.II.1499.4° (GW 5047) Copy …