Michaelmas Term 2024 | Fridays 5 pm (unless otherwise stated) 

Organisers: Irina Boeru, Fergus Bovill, Ana Dias, Charly Driscoll, Antonia Delle Fratte, Elena Lichmanova, Mathilde Mioche, Celeste Pan, Klara Zhao For all queries: elena.lichmanova@merton.ox.ac.uk 

To subscribe to our mailing list, participate in library visits, propose a presentation of your research for work in progress meetings, or submit any queries, please write to: elena.lichmanova@merton.ox.ac.uk 

Week 1, 18 October 2024, 3pm, Weston Library

Andrew Honey (Bodleian Library), Cataloguing Medieval Bookbindings at the Bodleian: Manuscripts from Reading Abbey as a Case Study

Limited places, please write to the email below by 16/10/2024 

Week 3, 1 November 2024, Hawkins Room, Merton College

If you would like to present your work in progress and receive our feedback, please write to the email below by 28/10/2024

Week 4, 8 November 2024, Online

Reading Group: Audience and the Senses 

• K. Rudy, ‘Introduction’, Touching Parchment (vol.2, 2024) 
• E. Duffy, Ch.1, ‘A Book for Lay People’, Marking the Hours (2008)

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Week 5, 15 November 2024: The New College Archives Visit (Muniment Tower) 

Introduction to the collection with Michael Stansfield

Limited places, please write to the email below by 8/11/2024

Week 7, 29 November 2024, Mure Room, Merton College

Eleanor Jackson (British Library), Medieval Women in Their Own Words: Curating the British Library Exhibition 

Week 9, 14 December 2024, Saturday noon

Bonus: Casual trip to see the ‘Medieval Women in Their Own Words’ exhibition at the British Library together

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