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Lyell Lectures
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Mechanical and intellectual

Lecture 3 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series
Lyell Lectures
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Invisible and visible

Lecture 2 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series
'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference

'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 2: 'Making a Place', 'Between' and 'Getting Lost'

Talks from Caroline Tully, Elizabeth Garner, Gwendolyne Knight and more on the themes of 'Making a Place', 'Between' and 'Getting Lost'.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Meet the pigments: the art and science of early English decoration

Discover how cutting-edge scientific techniques are transforming our understanding of medieval manuscripts, and how book production began to recover under King Alfred and his successors
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

MS Ashmole 1504

Dating from around 1520 and probably conceived as a pattern book, this manuscript is best described as a 'herbal and bestiary' and contains images of flora and fauna together with stylised, floriated ornaments and coloured alphabets.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Meet the Manuscripts: Correcting Christmas Carols

In the 3rd talk in our Meet the Manuscripts series, you will learn how singers lived with change in their favourite songs, and hear carols of the Middle Ages both familiar and new.
Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series
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Talk 1: Textiles in Libraries: glimpses from the Bodleian

The first talk in the Textiles in Libraries: Context and Conservation series brings together three colleagues from across the Bodleian Library to explore the wide variety and sometimes surprising uses of textiles found in our collections.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Meet the Manuscripts: Uncomfortable English Manuscripts

In this lecture, we look at some beautiful, austere, and distinctively uncomfortable manuscripts and learn how the Middle Ages shaped the way we read today both in print and on screen.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop for Candlemas

Building on the repertoire from our previous workshop, we will add further pieces for Candlemas where everybody is invited to join in by singing the communal response
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Meet the Manuscripts: judging a book by its cover

The covers can tell us as much about a book as its contents. This workshop explores the secrets which bookbindings reveal about the uses and histories of medieval manuscripts.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop – Song of Simeon

In this online choir workshop you will learn to sing along with a simple voice part from the Candlemas Nunc Dimittis and see the 15th-century manuscript from the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen where the music is preserved in the Bodleian Libraries
Digging for Meaning: Research from the Oxford School of Archaeology

Cycling to Archaeology!

From Thames-side ruins and forgotten stone circles to Ridgeway hillforts and Roman villas, Oxfordshire is abundant in archaeological riches.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: Chaucer: A European Life

TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Chaucer: A European Life by Professor Marion Turner. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held fortnightly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Plans and elevation: the development of architectural drawings

Dr Karl Kinsella introduces a 12th-century manuscript which explores the mystical visions of the prophet Ezekiel and contains some of the earliest architectural drawings in existence.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Decay and closure of libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (6)

Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the sixth and final lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Turnover in libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (4)

Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fourth lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy
Medieval German Studies

Trailer: Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian

A film of a class for 'Publication Beyond Print', the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. Filmed at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, by Natascha Domeisen.
Designing English: Graphics on the medieval page

If it be played

In the play The Burial of Christ, Joseph, Mary Magdalen and three other women cry out when they see Jesus on the Cross. MS. e Musaeo 160, fol. 141r. Copied c. 1518–1520. Read by Helen Appleton, Angela O'Brien, Daniel Sawyer, Wing Tan Lai.
Designing English: Graphics on the medieval page

First entereth Wisdom

In the play Wisdom, the devil tempts three godly people into sins – lust and other ‘French fashions’. MS. Digby 133, fol. 158r. Copied in the late 1400s. Read by Arka Chakraborty, Matthew Day, Ben Sims, Daniel Sawyer.
History of Art: Undergraduate Course Lectures
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Core Course: Architects or Artisans? The Builders of the Medieval Cathedrals

This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students.

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