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Derek Attridge 'The Experience of Poetry' Book Launch Panel Discussion |
This event celebrates the publication of Professor Derek Attridge's work The Experience of Poetry with a book launch panel discussion. |
Derek Attridge, Helen Cooper, Cathy Shrank, Stephen Harrison |
29 May 2019 |
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Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century |
A discussion about the book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century. Part of 'A Book at Lunchtime' series |
Oliver Taplin, Wes Williams, Olga Taxidou, Sarah Whatley |
06 Mar 2019 |
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How to record music on the page |
Professor Henrike Lähnemann discusses how the challenge of recording music on the page was made in the late middle ages by inventing a musical notation system |
Henrike Lähnemann |
18 Oct 2018 |
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Was There History in the Middle Ages? |
Did medieval writers think they were writing history? This talk takes a closer look at the various forms of ‘history’ during this period. Emily A. Winkler is (John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in History). |
Emily A Winkler |
03 Apr 2017 |
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Banned Books: Hus and Luther in the Teddy Hall Library |
This talk focusses on a first edition of the collected works of Jan Hus, from the collection in St Edmund Hall’s Old Library, written in the fifteenth century but first printed in 1558 together with letters of recommendation from Martin Luther. |
Henrike Lähnemann |
03 Apr 2017 |
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Merchants’ Marks in Medieval English Books |
Merchants’ marks were used initially as a tool of commerce, on consignments of goods, in the Middle Ages. In the sixteenth century, however, they became more like a coat of arms for people who didn’t have one – a form of professional identity. |
Thomas Kittel |
03 Apr 2017 |
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Medieval Romance and the Gift of Narrative |
Dr Perkins gives a talk for the 2013 Oxford Alumni Weekend. |
Nicholas Perkins |
14 Oct 2013 |
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Anniversaries, feasts and commemoration in the Middle Ages |
Ritual celebrations were at the heart of life in medieval communities. The passage of time was articulated by the cycle of the seasons, the exigencies of husbandry and of trade, all inextricably bound up with religious holidays and anniversaries. |
Elizabeth Gemmill |
04 Oct 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
The Birth of Romance in England |
Dr Laura Ashe delivers a lecture on the birth of romance in England in the 12th Century, part of a series of lectures to accompany The Romance of the Middle Ages exhibition at the Bodleian Library. |
Laura Ashe |
23 Feb 2012 |
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Creative Commons |
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. |
Peter Millican |
19 Feb 2010 |
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Bryan Ward-Perkins on the Fall of the Roman Empire |
Bryan Ward-Perkins, a leading historian of Late Antiquity at Trinity College, Oxford, discusses the transitional period between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages. |
Bryan Ward-Perkins, Oliver Lewis |
13 Sep 2008 |
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Bryan Ward-Perkins on the Fall of the Roman Empire |
Bryan Ward-Perkins, a leading historian of Late Antiquity at Trinity College, Oxford, discusses the transitional period between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages. |
Bryan Ward-Perkins, Oliver Lewis |
13 Sep 2008 |
