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Value of Humanities Lecture 6: For it's own sake |
Sixth and final lecture First lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses the philosophical idea of intrinsic value, or the humanities as valuable for its own sake |
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Helen Small |
13 May 2013 |
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Value of Humanities Lecture 5: Democracy Needs Us: The Gadfly Argument for the Humanities |
Fifth lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses the idea that a flourishing democracy needs the Humanities |
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Helen Small |
13 May 2013 |
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Value of Humanities Lecture 4: Socrates Dissatisfied: The Humanities' Contribution to Happiness |
Fourth lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses the Humanities' contribution to happiness |
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Helen Small |
13 May 2013 |
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Value of Humanities Lecture 3: Use and Usefulness |
First lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses the ideas of use and usefulness in the context of the value of the humanities |
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Helen Small |
13 May 2013 |
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Value of Humanities Lecture 2: Distinction from other Disciplines |
Second lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses how the humanities is distinct from other academic disciplines |
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Helen Small |
13 May 2013 |
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Value of Humanities Lecture 1: Overview and Political Contextualization |
First lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses the broad political and social context in which to place these lectures. |
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Helen Small |
13 May 2013 |
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The novel in early eighteenth century England: Defoe and Haywood |
This tutorial with second year students in English at Mansfield College, Oxford University, explores early attempts to define and categorise the 'new' genre of the novel. |
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Ros Ballaster, Rebecca Loxton, Abigail Rose, Rachel Brook |
10 Apr 2013 |
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"Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture |
Historian Stella Tillyard delivers the fourth Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing and Portraiture. The talk is introduced by College President Hermione Lee. |
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Stella Tillyard |
18 Feb 2013 |
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W.B. Yeats and the Ghost Club |
Dr Tara Stubbs uses exciting new research findings to discuss the close links between Yeats's attendances at the Ghost Club during the 1910s-1920s, his (sometimes amusing) spiritualist experiments, and his poetic works. |
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Tara Stubbs |
19 Dec 2012 |
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W.B. Yeats and the Ghost Club |
Dr Tara Stubbs uses exciting new research findings to discuss the close links between Yeats's attendances at the Ghost Club during the 1910s-1920s, his (sometimes amusing) spiritualist experiments, and his poetic works. |
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Tara Stubbs |
19 Dec 2012 |
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Shakespeare's Fools |
Professor of English, Katherine Duncan-Jones, discusses the real life characters and contemporaries of Shakespeare that inspired, shaped, and on occasion performed the various roles of the 'fool' in much of his work. |
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Katherine Duncan-Jones |
11 Dec 2012 |
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The Merchant of Venice |
This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships are shaped by models of financial transaction, using the casket scenes as a central example. |
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Emma Smith |
20 Nov 2012 |
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Taming of the Shrew |
Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the question of whether Katherine is tamed at the end of the play. |
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Emma Smith |
09 Nov 2012 |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream |
This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to uncover a play less concerned with marriage and more with sexual desire. |
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Emma Smith |
05 Nov 2012 |
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Language and History |
Prof. Simon Horobin examines how the English language has changed over time, addressing such vexed questions as whether Jane Austen could spell, the fate of the apostrophe and whether people who 'literally' explode with anger are corrupting the language. |
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Simon Horobin |
30 Oct 2012 |
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Much Ado About Nothing |
Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John, drawing on gender and performance criticism to think about male bonding, the genre of comedy, and the impulses of modern performance. |
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Emma Smith |
30 Oct 2012 |
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Hamlet |
The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play's nostalgia, drawing on biographical criticism and the religious and political history of early modern England. |
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Emma Smith |
23 Oct 2012 |
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As You Like It |
Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's dramatic structure and its ambiguous use of pastoral, drawing on performance history, genre theory, and eco-critical approaches. |
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Emma Smith |
23 Oct 2012 |
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Hard words, best words words in use, writing the inventory of english |
English, as its vocabulary confirms, is constantly on the move - both words and meaning act as witnesses to time and change, revealing the diverse pathways of contact and conflict with other nations, as well as changes in culture and identity. |
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Lynda Muggletstone |
09 Oct 2012 |
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Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"? |
Dr Catherine Brown gives the fourth and final lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. With a philosophical discussion on what Comparative Literature is and how we can study 'literature in comparison' |
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Catherine Brown |
21 May 2012 |
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Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting |
Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including the differing ways writers plot their work; from multi-plotted works like Ulysses (Joyce) to double plotted works like Daniel Deronda (George Eliot) |
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Catherine Brown |
21 May 2012 |
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Literature and Form 2: Chapters |
Dr Catherine Brown gives the second lecture in the Literature and Form series, looking at the ways in which writers break up their stories into chapters, parts and volumes |
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Catherine Brown |
21 May 2012 |
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Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators |
Dr Catherine Brown gives the first lecture in the Literature and Form series. Including Commentary on Nabokov's Lolita and Ian McEwan's Atonement |
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Catherine Brown |
21 May 2012 |
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John Milton |
Dr Anna Beer shares a few short extracts of Milton's poem Lycidas and discusses what they show about Milton's very special qualities as a writer. |
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Anna Beer |
15 Mar 2012 |
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John Milton |
Dr Anna Beer shares a few short extracts of Milton's poem Lycidas and discusses what they show about Milton's very special qualities as a writer. |
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Anna Beer |
15 Mar 2012 |
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Why Dickens? |
Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst talks of Dickens' life and influences and why these have made his works so popular. |
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
02 Mar 2012 |
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King Lear |
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives pleasure. |
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Emma Smith |
22 Feb 2012 |
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King John |
At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at the ways history and legitimacy are complicated in this plotline. |
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Emma Smith |
10 Feb 2012 |
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series shows some of its self-conscious artistry and contemporary popularity. |
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Emma Smith |
01 Feb 2012 |
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Richard III |
In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the inevitability of the ending of Richard III: does the play endorse Richmond's final victory? |
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Emma Smith |
25 Jan 2012 |
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The Comedy of Errors |
Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical exploits of Comedy of Errors, drawing out the play's serious concerns with identity and selfhood. |
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Emma Smith |
23 Jan 2012 |
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History of English Pronunciation |
Do we really know what Chaucer's poetry sounded like? Professor Simon Horobin introduces evidence that gives us an insight into the history of English pronunciation and explores what it tells us about how and why changes in language take place. |
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Simon Horobin |
30 Nov 2011 |
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Henry IV part 1 |
Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John Falstaff and investigates his role in Henry IV part 1. Lecture 11 in the Approaching Shakespeare series. |
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Emma Smith |
16 Nov 2011 |
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The Tempest |
That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The Tempest: this tenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture asks whether that is a useful reading of the play. |
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Emma Smith |
14 Nov 2011 |
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Antony and Cleopatra |
What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The ninth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series tries to find out. |
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Emma Smith |
10 Nov 2011 |
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Shakespeare and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) |
Professor Charlotte Brewer introduces the methodology behind the creation of the OED and how current activity to update the Dictionary may reveal new evidence about Shakespeare's impact on the English Language. |
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Charlotte Brewer |
08 Nov 2011 |
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English and Gender |
Professor Deborah Cameron explores some of the key theories surrounding the use of language by women and men. Are we really so different? |
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Deborah Cameron |
21 Oct 2011 |
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Introduction to the MSt in English Language |
Professor Deborah Cameron introduces the new Master's course in English Language offered by the University of Oxford. |
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Deborah Cameron |
21 Oct 2011 |
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Twelfth Night |
The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio - and uses his presence to open up questions of sexuality, desire and the nature of romantic comedy. |
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Emma Smith |
20 Oct 2011 |
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Titus Andronicus |
Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on Titus Andronicus deals with violence, rhetoric, and the nature of dramatic sensationalism. |
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Emma Smith |
19 Oct 2011 |
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Tolkien's Languages |
These lectures cover an introduction to J R R Tolkien's career, show how medieval literature influenced his fiction, and consider the wider scheme Tolkien worked on linking his mythology to historical and other mythical events. |
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Elizabeth Solopova |
21 Mar 2011 |
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Tolkien and Medieval Literature |
These lectures cover an introduction to J R R Tolkien's career, show how medieval literature influenced his fiction, and consider the wider scheme Tolkien worked on linking his mythology to historical and other mythical events. |
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Elizabeth Solopova |
21 Mar 2011 |
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J R R Tolkien 'Beyond the Shoreless Sea' |
These lectures cover an introduction to J R R Tolkien's career, show how medieval literature influenced his fiction, and consider the wider scheme Tolkien worked on linking his mythology to historical and other mythical events. |
0:51:31 |
Stuart Lee |
21 Mar 2011 |
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J R R Tolkien: Medievalist and Mythmaker |
These lectures cover an introduction to J R R Tolkien's career, show how medieval literature influenced his fiction, and consider the wider scheme Tolkien worked on linking his mythology to historical and other mythical events. |
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Stuart Lee |
21 Mar 2011 |
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The Winter's Tale |
How we can make sense of a play that veers from tragedy to comedy and stretches credulity in its conclusion? That's the topic for this fifth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on The Winter's Tale. |
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Emma Smith |
09 Nov 2010 |
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Macbeth |
In this fourth Approaching Shakespeare lecture the question is one of agency: who or what makes happen the things that happen in Macbeth? |
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Emma Smith |
02 Nov 2010 |
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Measure for Measure |
The third Approaching Shakespeare lecture, on Measure for Measure, focuses on the vexed question of this uncomic comedy's genre. |
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Emma Smith |
26 Oct 2010 |
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Henry V |
The second lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at King Henry V, and asks whether his presentation in the play is entirely positive. |
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Emma Smith |
20 Oct 2010 |
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The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost... and regained |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Emma Smith reveals how Oxford University mobilised Alumni support to bring Shakespeare's First Folio back to the Bodleian library over 200 years after it was lost. |
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Emma Smith |
19 Oct 2010 |
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The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster |
In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy articulates perennial questions about female autonomy and class distinction. |
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Emma Smith |
24 Nov 2009 |
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The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker |
Based on a contemporary scandal of a woman who dressed in male clothing, this play of topsy-turvy genders has fun with some very modern ideas about sexuality, identity and whether we are what we wear. |
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Emma Smith |
13 Nov 2009 |
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The Revenger's Tragedy: Thomas Middleton |
A blackly camp tragedy - Hamlet without the narcissism - set in a court corrupted by lust and self-interest, this play is both fascinated and repelled by its own depravity. |
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Emma Smith |
06 Nov 2009 |
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The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker |
Like a Busby Berkeley depression-era musical, Dekker's comedy is a feel-good antidote to a context of shortages, political malaise and general pessimism, but real life in the shape of war, class antagonism and civic tensions, always threatens to intrude. |
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Emma Smith |
06 Nov 2009 |
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Arden of Faversham: Anon |
A true crime story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife and her lover, this play is concerned with the politics of the household, with gender roles within marriage, and presents a black comedy of botched murder attempts rather like The Ladykillers. |
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Emma Smith |
05 Nov 2009 |
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The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd |
Popular tragedy in which Hieronimo pursues aristocratic murderers of his son Horatio and takes revenge. It speaks, like Hollywood Westerns, to questions about private revenge versus public justice, and to the vexed religious questions of its age. |
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Emma Smith |
05 Nov 2009 |
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First year English Tutorial: Old English Riddles |
A tutorial given by Lucinda Rumsey, Mansfield College, Oxford University, to some first year degree students about Old English Riddles. |
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Lucinda Rumsey |
12 Sep 2008 |
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Old English in Context Lecture 4 - Manuscripts |
Fourth and final lecture by Dr S D Lee, University of Oxford, on Old English in Context. 7/2/08. |
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Stuart Lee |
08 Feb 2008 |
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Old English in Context Lecture 3 - Religion and Magic |
Lecture 3 in a series on placing Old English in Context, Religion and magic. Delivered by Dr S D Lee, Faculty of English, University of Oxford - 31/1/08. |
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Stuart Lee |
31 Jan 2008 |
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Old English in Context Lecture 2 - Society |
Lecture delivered by Dr Stuart D Lee, 24/1/08, English Faculty, University of Oxford on Anglo-Saxon society in relation to the literature. |
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Stuart Lee |
24 Jan 2008 |
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Old English in Context Lecture 1 - Historical texts |
Lecture by Dr S. D. Lee, Faculty of English, Oxford University - placing Old English literature in its historical and social context. |
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Stuart Lee |
17 Jan 2008 |
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Anglo-Saxon Tour - British Museum |
Audio only Tour of the Anglo-Saxon exhibits on display at the British Museum by Dr S. D. Lee, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, 27th April 2007. |
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Stuart Lee |
26 Apr 2007 |
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Beowulf reading, ll. 26-52 |
Reading from Beowulf ll. 26-52 by Stuart D Lee, University of Oxford. Recorded March 2007. |
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Stuart Lee |
29 Mar 2007 |
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reading |
Reading from an entry in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Stuart D Lee, University of Oxford. Recorded March 2007. |
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Stuart Lee |
28 Mar 2007 |
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Old English Tour - British Library |
Audio Only Tour of the Old English Manuscripts on display at the British Library by Dr S. D. Lee, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, 21st March 2007. |
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Stuart Lee |
21 Mar 2007 |