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Lyell Lectures
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Shaping legacies

Lecture 5 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Meet the Manuscripts: the Renaissance reform of the book

Dr Martin Holford and Dr David Rundle explore how the Italian Renaissance led to major changes in how manuscripts were made, written and decorated in England.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: Born to Write

A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on ‘Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France’ by Professor Neil Kenny.
History of the Book 2017-2019

Scottish and British Authors Published Abroad 1470-1700

Jane Stevenson, Senior research Fellow, Campion Hall, Oxford, gives a talk fo the History of the Book seminar series on 1st February 2019.
History of the Book 2017-2019

Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne

Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Remembering the Jagiellonians

A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Natalia Nowakowska, Somerville College, University of Oxford, Professor Julia Mannherz (Oriel, Oxford) Professor Hannah Skoda (St John’s, Oxford) Chaired by Professor Katherine Lebow (Christ Church, Oxford).
Voltaire Foundation

Methusela and the unity of mankind: late Renaissance and early Enlightenment conceptions of time

Martin van Gelderen delivers a talk for the Besterman Lecture 2018
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

15cBOOKTRADE: The visualization of the circulation of books over time and space and image-searching tool: how we got there

Cristina Dondi and Matilde Malaspina of the 15C BOOKTRADE project, give a talk for the 2017 DHOXSS.
History of the Book 2017-2019

Law: Printing the Corpus iuris civilis in the Sixteenth Century

Professor Rodolfo Savelli, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Università di Genova, gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 10th March 2017.
History of the Book 2017-2019

Theology: The Gutenberg Bible in the Context of Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Bibles

Dr Paul Needham, Scheide Library, Princeton University Library gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 3rd March 2017.
History of the Book 2017-2019

Manuscript Studies: Greek Script and Type in the Fifteenth century. Demetrius Damilas between Milan and Florence

Nigel Wilson, fellow of Lincoln College, reads a lecture written by Dr David Speranzi, Firenze, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento. Dr Speranzi was unable to attend the recording of this lecture so Nigel Wilson read in his absence.
History of the Book 2017-2019

Economics: The Price of Books in Early Modern Europe: An Economic Perspective

Dr Jeremiah Dittmar, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, gives a talk on 10th February 2017.
History of the Book 2017-2019

Classics: Incunabular Stemmatics,

Professor Stephen Oakley, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 3rd February 2017.
St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2015: Teddy Talks

Shakespeare's Animals

Why animals are everywhere in Shakespeare's language.
General Philosophy

2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1

Part 2.1. A brief recap on the first lecture describing how Aristotle's view of the universe, dominant throughout the middle ages in Europe, came to be gradually phased out by a modern, mechanistic view of the universe.
General Philosophy

1.2 The Background of Early Modern Philosophy

Part 1.2. Gives a very brief history of philosophy from the 'birth of philosophy' in Ancient Greece through the rise of Christianity in Europe in the Middle Ages through to the Renaissance, the Reformation and the birth of the Modern Period.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

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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