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OMS is the interdisciplinary platform for medieval studies across Oxford supported by TORCH. Posts by Henrike Lähnemann and Ashley Castelino
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OPPORTUNITY 📯

Applications are now open for the @ducollections.bsky.social Collections Fellowships and Visiting Fellowships, enabling research across the historic collections of Durham!

Deadline: 3 September 2025

More details at durhamcollections.org.uk
The aim of the Durham Collections Fellowships is to enable and foster research across the three historic collections of Durham — those held by Durham University, Durham Cathedral and Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, all of which have internationally significant collections of books and other materials that deserve to be brought to a wider scholarly and public audience. In addition to libraries this includes archives, collections of visual and material culture, and architectural assets.
July 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!

@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies.

🖊️ Apply by 14 July
Home page of the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project beta website.
July 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film!

Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
June 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Just one week until we celebrate the launch of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays FILM!!

Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.
The 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays Film Launch. Thursday 19 June, 4:30-6pm, Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
June 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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🗓️ Friday 30 May 🗓️

Join us at Lincoln College this Friday for 'Fragments of Lives', a day of discoveries about medieval lives in the muniments of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social , @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and beyond!
Poster for Fragments of Lives. Friday 30 May. Lincoln College, Oakeshott Room. No registration is required. For all enquiries, please email laure.miolo@history.ox.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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@stedmundhall.bsky.social is opening up its Old Library for an exhibition of some medieval items - all welcome!

📆 Thursday 1 May (TOMORROW)
⌚️ 10am - 4pm
Exhibition in the Old Library. The Old Library will be open today (29 April) and Thursday (1 May) from 10am-4pm. The exhibition is inspired by the theme of this year’s St Edmund Hall Community & Giving Week: #GiveItYourHALL and the 1317 Challenge. In the exhibition case will be items marking significant moments in the history of the Hall since our first mention in the rent rolls of Osney Abbey in 1317, including evidence of a bitter academic dispute about the name and origins of the College, the original Library rules and a relic of our patron St Edmund. Also on display will be record-breaking and significant works from the collection including the Library’s oldest book, the most recent addition to the Library and the best-selling work by an Aularian author. All welcome! If you can’t come on either day please contact Library@seh.ox.ac.uk and arrange an appointment.
April 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Somehow Trinity term has already snuck up upon us, but rejoice, for that means the 📯Oxford Medieval Studies Booklet📯 is ready for viewing!

Find it in its full glory along with some other announcements in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/m...
Front page of the University of Oxford's Trinity Term 2025 Medieval Booklet.
April 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Just 3 days to go until the biggest medieval event of the year - the 2025 Oxford Medieval Plays! 📯📯📯

Join us from noon on Saturday 26 April @stedmundhall.bsky.social.

Visit www.seh.ox.ac.uk/mystery-cycle to view more details on timings and to download the full programme.
Cover of the Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays programme, 26 April 2025 at St Edmund Hall Oxford Order of Performance: The Fall of the Angels, Adam and Eve, The Flood, Abraham and Isaac, The Annunciation, The Nativity, The Wedding at Cana, The Crucifixion, The Lamentation, The Harrowing of Hell, The Resurrection, The Martyrdom of the Three Holy Virgins, The Last Judgement
April 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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We're 2 weeks away from the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays but the fun has already begun!

A performance of the 🔥Apocalypse🔥 is now available to stream for History Hit's new documentary The Medieval Apocalypse.

Read more from Shaw Worth at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/10/a...
Still from a performance of the Apocalypse mystery play in a Romanesque crypt, featuring four costumed players representing Jesus, two angels, and a good soul
April 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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The 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays are fast approaching!

As a special preview, join @hlaehnemann.bsky.social and Beyond Shakespeare for a walking tour around the route of the event @stedmundhall.bsky.social...

Listen now at audioboom.com/posts/866279...
Dramatic poster for the Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays 2025, Saturday 26 April at St Edmund Hall, featuring an actress in a golden robe standing in a well.
March 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Join Edward's Boys for a performance of the fascinating 'Enterlude of Godly Queene Hester', a political satire about the demise of Cardinal Wolsey, preceded by free talks on Esther and the purimshpil!

📆 28 March, 18:30-20:15
📌 Research Centre, Christ Church Meadow
Colour lithograph by Arthur A. Dixon titled "The Enemy is this Wicked Haman!" presented as a framed portrait.
March 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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THIS SATURDAY at 2pm, Pusey House is hosting a very special free performance of a medieval mystery play cycle, with a reconstruction of the no longer extant wedding at Cana episode!

See medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/01/15/t... for more details.
Poster for The Epiphanytide Mysteries. A performance of a medieval mystery play cycle with a reconstruction of the no longer extant wedding at Cana episode. Directed by Phillip Quinn and Elliott Clark. 2pm, Saturday 25 January, Pusey House Oxford.
January 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Finally, weekly medievalist coffee mornings continue every Friday 10:30-11:30 at the Weston Library!
Medievalists Coffee Morning! Friday 10:30-11:30. Visiting Scholars Centre in the Weston Library. Access via the Readers Entrance on Museum Road. All medievalists working in Oxford welcome!
January 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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@medievalacademy.bsky.social are offering a Graduate Student Committee Grant for Innovation in Community Building & Professionalization.

The deadline to apply for up to $2,000 is 15 February (but you must be a member of the MAA by 15 January).

More at www.medievalacademy.org/page/GSCGran...
The MAA/GSC Grant will be awarded annually to an individual or graduate student group from one or more universities. The purpose of this grant is to stimulate new and innovative efforts that support preprofessionalization, encourage communication and collaboration across diverse groups of graduate students, and build communities amongst graduate student medievalists. Examples of such projects include: a graduate student conference; an online journal; a lecture or workshop series; a collective excursion to an archive, museum, architectural or archaeological site; performances (of medieval music, medieval drama, etc); or the creation of collaborative digital humanities projects, to name but several possibilities. This grant is therefore intended to support a wide range of activities by investing in the merits of innovative new approaches that simultaneously build professional communities and promote research, publication, and teaching. The deadline to apply for this grant of up to $2,000 is February 15th, but applicants should be advised that you must be a member of the MAA by January 15th to be eligible. Membership information may be found HERE. Interested folks may submit their application materials online HERE, and I'd be happy to address any questions directly via my email address (lel7qsf@virginia.edu) or via the GSC's email address (gsc@themedievalacademy.org). More full screen-readable information is available via the link in the first post.
January 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Further afield is the MLD Biblical Studies Symposium in Romania on 'Investigations into Romanian and European Biblical Traditions'. Paper proposals are due by 15 February.

🗓️ 5-7 June 2025
🗺️ Iași, Romania

More details at mld.uaic.ro/simpozionMLD...
Romanian Association of Philology and Biblical Hermeneutics (AFHBR) and Centre for Biblical and Philological Studies “Monumenta linguae Dacoromanorum” (ICI-DSU, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi) are pleased to invite you to the “Investigations into Romanian and European Biblical Traditions” International Symposium (14th Edition), Iaşi, Romania, 5–7 June 2025. Presentations should be 30 minutes in length (including 5-10 minutes for questions and discussion). After a peer-review process, the selected papers will be published in Reception of the Holy Scriptures: at the crossroads between philology, hermeneutics and translation studies (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Press, Iaşi). Please send paper proposals to: simpozionmld@gmail.com by 15 February 2025. Proposals should include a title, an abstract (150-200 words) and bibliography. Please also mention your institutional affiliation and academic degree. For more screen-readable details, see the booklet via the link in the first post.
January 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Get started with Transkribus in another specialised workshop in Edinburgh.

🗓️ 24 Feb, 12-5pm
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Time: 12:00-17:00, 24 February 2025 Location: Room 2.20, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 1 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9EF Do you work with handwritten documents and need a tool that can perform automatic text recognition? Are you interested in automated methods but do not know where to start, or if they are worth your time? Come join us for this workshop with Joe Nockels (University of Sheffield) to learn more about automatic text recognition, machine vision, and how to use Transkribus. This is a joint event held between the Oxford Text Archive, READ-COOP, and the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture, and Society.
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The School of Advanced Study in London is hosting another (free!) workshop on creating a digital edition using LEAF Commons.

🗓️ 13 Feb, 12-5pm
🗺️ Senate House, London

Register at www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/....
Create a Digital Edition using LEAF Commons. Time: 12:00-17:00, 13 February 2025. Location: MakerSpace, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. This is a joint event held between the School of Advanced Study's Digital Humanities Research Hub and the Oxford Text Archive, the UK repository for literary and linguistic data, based at the University of Oxford. Lunch will be provided. Please do join us! All welcome This event is free to attend, but booking is required. This event is in-person only at Senate House in London. Registration link: https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/create-digital-edition-using-leafcommons. More screen-readable information is accessible via the link in the first post.
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The @ies-sas.bsky.social London Rare Books School is hosting a short course on digital editing.

🗓️ 29 Jan and 31 Jan, 2-4pm
🗺️ Zoom

Register at ies.sas.ac.uk/events/digit...
This short course surveys the traditions and principles of scholarly editing and textual scholarship, complemented with hands-on workshops on the fundamentals of creating digital editions, including a rigorous overview of the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. This short course is part of the London Rare Books School Course Fees: · Standard: £90 · Concession*: £60 (*student/unwaged) This course will delivered via a mix of asynchronous video tutorials and live Zoom sessions on Wednesday and Friday, we will offer basic instruction in encoding text editions in TEI using a standard XML editor. The course is limited to 15 delegates and bookings must be made by the 21st January 2025. Registration link: https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/digital-editing
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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A cfp is open for an interdisciplinary workshop on 'The Sorrowful Virgin. Medieval and Early Modern Devotion'. Proposals of by 24 January.

🗓️ 24 March 2025
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Images of the Sorrowful Virgin, whether in the form of Michelangelo’s Pietà, or Mary at the foot of the Cross on the Isenheim altarpiece are ubiquitous in medieval and early modern culture. Liturgically this was explored through the Stabat Mater, while vernacular writers found in the Marian lament a vehicle through which the Virgin could speak, offering a route for affective engagement with Mary’s suffering. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation inflected the ways in which the Sorrowful Virgin was presented, as devotions such as the Seven Sorrows served as spiritual models for more standardized monastic environments in the post-Tridentine period. Moreover, with colonisation of the New World, Marian devotion took on new emphases. This interdisciplinary workshop will investigate the Sorrowful Virgin in medieval and early modern culture, in which we aim to engage with some of these questions. The workshop will include a hands-on session with material objects and a performance of an early modern lament. We have entitled this workshop ‘The Sorrowful Virgin’ to encompass the many manifestations of this devotion, from the Seven Sorrows to the Mater Dolorosa and welcome broad interpretations of the theme. We are looking for proposals for 20-minute papers on all aspects of this devotion in medieval and early modern culture, and encourage submissions from those in the fields of History, Music, Medieval Languages and Literature, Theology, and Art History. Please send proposals of 250 words along with a short bio to Anna Wilmore and Taro Kobayashi by 24th January 2025. We aim to respond by the 1st February.
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The journal Manuscript and Text Cultures is accepting submissions! See mtc-journal.org/index.php/mt... for more details.
Are you interested in submitting to the journal Manuscript and Text Cultures? Please review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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@queenscollegeox.bsky.social is offering a three-year Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures as part of its Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures! The closing date midday (UK time) 17 February 2025. See www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju... for more.
https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/junior-research-fellowship-in-manuscript-and-text-cultures/
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The Oxford/Groningen 2025 Old Frisian Summer School (OFSS25) will take place in Groningen (Netherlands), 7th-11th July, but you can attend as a taster session a lecture by Johanneke Sytsema on 21 Feb, 2-3pm!

Further info about the summer school at www.rug.nl/education/su...
The Oxford/Groningen 2025 Old Frisian Summer School (OFSS25) will take place in Groningen (Netherlands), 7th-11th July. This will be a fun way to learn Old Frisian in a week, to view original Old Frisian manuscripts and to see the world heritage landscape of old Frisian ‘terps’ or dwelling mounds. The Oxford/Groningen 2025 Old Frisian Summer School (OFSS25) will take place in Groningen (Netherlands), 7th-11th July. This will be a fun way to learn Old Frisian in a week, to view original Old Frisian manuscripts and to see the world heritage landscape of old Frisian ‘terps’ or dwelling mounds.
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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A few opportunities finally, starting with the OMS Small Grants scheme for which applications are now open!

Find out more medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/01/09/o...
The TORCH Oxford Medieval Studies Programme invites applications for small grants to support conferences, workshops, and other forms of collaborative research activity organised by researchers at postgraduate (whether MSt or DPhil) or early-career level from across the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. The scheme has a rolling deadline. Closing date for applications: Friday of Week 4 each term for activities taking place during that or the following term. An additional deadline for summer activities and Michaelmas Term is last Friday of July. Grants are normally in the region of £100–250 and can either be for expenses or for administrative and organisational support such as publicity, filming or zoom hosting. They can also be used to support staging a play for the Medieval Mystery Cycle, e.g. for buying props or material for costumes. Recipients will be required to supply a report after the event for the Oxford Medieval Studies blog and will be invited to present on their award at an OMS event. Applicants will be responsible for all administrative aspects of the activity, including formulating the theme and intellectual rationale, devising the format, and, depending on the type of event, inviting speakers and/or issuing a Call for Papers, organising the schedule, and managing the budget, promotion and advertising. Applications should be submitted to Prof. Lesley Smith using either the word grant application form or fill out the online form. Informal enquiries may also be directed to Lesley. The Oxford Medieval Studies Programme money is administered by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the money will be paid out via their expenses system.
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Medieval Anglo-Jewish Texts and History

🗓️ 20 Feb, 9:30am-5pm
🗺️ Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Institute
Week 5 Thursday, 20 February 2025, from 9:30 am to 5.00 pm. Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG. This group convenes once a term to read together unpublished Hebrew and Latin documents from Medieval England as sources for the history of the Jews before the expulsion of 1290.
January 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Medieval Hebrew Reading Group

🗓️ Thursdays 10-11am
🗺️ Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies / Zoom
This reading group is an opportunity to practise reading directly from images of medieval Hebrew manuscripts in an informal setting. No advance preparation is required and all skill levels are welcome! This year we will look at documents and manuscript excerpts from a broad range of the many genres found in medieval Hebrew texts, including scientific, literary, and legal. We will consider their palaeography, language, and historical context, and learn practical skills for reading unfamiliar handwriting, dealing with damaged texts, and interpreting dates and unusual vocabulary. There will be coffee, tea and cake from 11am in the Common Room of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies for those attending in person. Please note that in Week 5 the Medieval Hebrew Reading Group will join the Medieval AngloJewish Texts and History seminar (please see further information below); this will not be available for online participants. For further information about this reading group or for any other queries, please email Dr Joseph O’Hara at joseph.ohara@ccc.ox.ac.uk. In order to attend this reading group via Zoom, please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xxbFantGTrifTi1mS-4P7g
January 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM