Medieval Matters: Week 7 TT2021

7 June 2021
Caroline Batten
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Dear all,

Week 7 has arrived and brought the summer weather with it! Some of our usual seminars have now concluded for the term, but others continue, and you should have no trouble filling up your schedule with events.

First, a quick announcement: on 28 June at 5 pm, the International Center of Medieval Art is holding an online event on ‘The Guelph Treasure: Historic Significance and Legal Implications’, with speakers Holger A. Klein and Leila A. Amineddoleh. The event will be announced here and questions should be addressed to doralynn.pines@gmail.com.

Þær is blis mycel, / dream on heofonum, þær is dryhtnes folc / geseted to symle, þær is singal blis. — The Dream of the Rood poet, long thought to be describing heaven, actually describing Oxford seminars

MONDAY 7 JUNE

  • The Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar meets at 12:30 pm on Zoom. Please register in advance by contacting james.cogbill@worc.ox.ac.uk. This week’s speaker is Constanța Burlacu (Merton), ‘Monastic Presence and Book Circulation in the Lands North of the Danube (15th-16th Centuries)’.
  • The Medieval Latin Reading Group meets 1-2 pm on Teams. Submit your email address here to receive notices.
  • At 4 pm we have the Germanic Reading Group on Zoom, which will explore alliterative verse in a different Germanic language each week; this week, Nelson Goering will lead a session on Old Saxon. To be added to the list, contact howard.jones@sbs.ox.ac.uk.
  • The Medieval History Seminar meets at 5 pm on Teams. This week’s panel is Jonathan Wild, Will Kinsella, and Dragana  Van De Moortel-Ilić, speaking on ‘Visual and Verbal Narratives in the Eastern Roman Empire, 500-1400’.
  • Forgotten Christianties meets at 5 pm on Zoom. This week’s speakers are Valentina Grasso (Cambridge), ‘Christianities in the Sixth-Century Red Sea: Kālēb of Aksūm and Abraha of Ḥimyar’ and Jesse Siragan Arlen (UCLA), ‘The Making of a Monastic Academy: Intellectual and Ascetic-Mystical Education at the Monastery of Narek’. Register here.
  • Old Norse Reading Group continues its journey through Hervarar saga at 5:30 pm on Teams. Email bond.west@lincoln.ox.ac.uk to be added to the mailing list.
  • The ICI Berlin Decentring Dante Series continues at 6 pm, celebrating the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Dante, this week with speaker Gary Cestaro (De Paul University), ‘Dante’s Queer Fathers’. Find more information and register here.

TUESDAY 8 JUNE

  • The Medieval Book Club meets at 3:30 pm on Google Meet. Contact oxfordmedievalbookclub@gmail.com to receive notices.
  • The Early Slavonic Seminar meets at 5 pm on Zoom. Register here. This week’s speaker is Dušan Zupka (Comenius University in Bratislava), ‘Rulers and Rulership between Ideal and Reality (East Central Europe, 10th-13th c.)’.
  • Also at 5 pm on Teams we have the Medieval French Research Seminar. This week’s speaker is Matthew Thomson (Oxford), ‘Courtly Loving in Arras and Paris: Refrain Quotation and Textual Communities in Thirteenth-Century Motets and Romans’. To be added to the mailing list, contact sarah.bridge@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk.

WEDNESDAY 9 JUNE

  • Digital Editions Live returns from 3-5 pm on Teams (join the meeting here). This week’s speakers, on illuminated French manuscripts, are Carrie Heusinkveld, ‘Reconsidering the Metamorphoses by Clément Marot (MS. Douce 117)’ and Javaria Abbasi, ‘Pedrode Medina’s Librode cosmographia (1538), (MS.Canon. Ital. 243)’.
  • The Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar meets at 5 pm on Google Meet (link here). This week’s speaker is Karen Hamada (Tokyo/Oxford), ‘Who Wants a Union? Rethinking the Negotiations Between the Armenians and the Byzantines for an Ecclesiastical Union in the 12th Century’.

THURSDAY 10 JUNE

  • The Early Text Cultures Astronomy and Astrology Seminar meets at 3 pm on Zoom. Fill out this Google form to receive the link. This week’s speakers are Razieh Mousavi (Max Planck, Berlin) and Eleonora Andriani (Observatoire de Paris, CNRS), on ‘Medieval Perspectives: Al-Farghānī and Michael Scot’.
  • GLARE (Greek, Latin, and Reception) Reading Group meets at 4 pm on Teams. Email john.colley@jesus.ox.ac.uk or jenyth.evans@seh.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list. This week’s reading will be Sophocles, Antigone, 21-77, 857-82.
  • The Old English Reading Group meets at 5:30 pm on Teams, continuing with Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica. Contact eugenia.vorobeva@jesus.ox.ac.uk for details.

FRIDAY 28 MAY

Go get yourself some singal seminar blis!