We're so back! Oxford manuscript readers are welcome to join us this Friday for our next Oxford Medieval Studies Medieval MSS Support Group at the Weston Library after Coffee Morning, check out the blog for info to get in touch and come along! 📜🎉 medieval.ox.ac.uk/2024/07/15/med…

10 rules for Oxford by Philip Mo, not just for future interns! Special mentions Taylor Institution Library (Taylorian) Bodleian Libraries @stedmundhall Read it in full on Oxford History of the Book blog: historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/10-rules-for-a… #books #ıcecream #packingtips

This is the earliest surviving printed advert in English publishing history. Printed by William Caxton in 1477, it advertises his edition of the Sarum Pye, a priest’s book of saint's days. Customers are directed to his shop, the Red Pale in the Almonry, Westminster. Arch. G e.37

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be joining Lady Margaret Hall as a Career Development Fellow in Medieval English from next month. Very much looking forward to working with such brilliant colleagues and meeting all the students!

"In the middle of the journey of my life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost..." Dante Bodleian Libraries #ThursdayFeeling #ThursdayThoughts

Dr Mary Boyle on Oxford Medieval Studies #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZGewvh23M/

Thx Ashley Castelino for this fun byproduct of plotting a new promotional video for Oxford Medieval Studies! (Props for the film from the #OxfordMysteries tack in my office) #wingsonshoulders

Tickets now on sale for #CheltLitFest BEOWULF: POEM AND HERO! I'm so excited to be in conversation with my Faculty of English colleague Heather O'Donoghue Heather O'Donoghue about her new book! Mon Oct 7th at 4pm. Tickets here cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/beowulf…

There were many international animal days last month, so here's a collection of animals from one of four surviving C14th copies of Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ's Kitāb Kalīlah wa-Dimnah. The book is an Arabic translation of Sanskrit moral-filled fables whose heroes are animals. MS Pococke 400

Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music this term (online via Zoom) by Andrew Wathey and Anna Zayaruznaya, Lucia Marchi, and Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert. More details and sign up here: music.ox.ac.uk/all-souls-semi…

Just gone online: Join me for Book at Lunchtime: The Life of Nuns ⁦TORCH Oxford⁩ #nuntastic torch.ox.ac.uk/event/book-at-…

Thank you again to wonderful editors Hannah Armstrong and Dr Rebecca Menmuir! You can read my article “Medievalist Forgery? Editions, Adaptations, and Translations of Kudrun in the Nineteenth Century” for free at rdcu.be/dFflW

Welcome back 📯!

Now online: documentation of the splendid 3rd instalment of The World of Iffley in the 12th Century. Traveling w/ Teresa Witcome to Toledo & making music w/ Ian Pittaway St Mary's Iffley Oxford Medieval Studies medieval.ox.ac.uk/2024/08/06/12t…

Registration for BOOKS ACROSS BORDERS (both online and in-person attendance) closes at 5:00pm today. 📨Email [email protected] to secure your place.

St John's College was founded in 1555, but what came before that? William Whyte, Fellow in History and Keeper of Historic Buildings, tells all. To discover more about St John's and the history of the College, join us for #OxfordOpenDoors this weekend. All are very welcome!

For those of you who can find a copy, I am reliably informed that there is a short piece about Carla Rossi (who is now calling herself Carla Rossi Adumim; see carlarossi.info) in this week's Private Eye magazine. I'll try to post an image of it in due course ...

Did you write your doctoral thesis on #manuscripts or other written artefacts? Then take part in the competition for the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2024! The winner will receive 5,000€ and a research fellowship at the CSMC. csmc.uni-hamburg.de/news/2024-09-1…

This has happened :)

We have a list of every Anglo-Saxon whose name we know: it's an astonishing achievement & research tool. It took 10 years & is now available again: pase.ac.uk Reeves, moneyers, pilgrims; anchorites, assassins, archpriests; sisters, sons & seventeenth-grandfathers...