Michaelmas Term 2025 | 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: oxfordmedievalmss@gmail.com

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, 2 May 2025: Merton College Library Visit

Previous experience of handling medieval manuscripts is desirable. Limited places, write to the email above by 30/04/2025

Week 3, 16 May 2025, 2pm

Sara Charles, School of Advanced Studies, University of LondonGold in Medieval Illumination: Practiced-based Workshop

All materials are provided. £10 fee. In association with Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Faculty of HistoryLimited places, write to the email below by 10/05/2025

Week 4, 23 May 2025, Online

Reading Group: Connoisseurship

• Sonja Drimmer, Connoisseurship, Art History, and the Paleographical Impasse in Middle English Studies (2022)  
• Jonathan Alexander, Art History, Literary History, and the Study of Medieval Manuscripts (1997)
• Sydney Cockerell, The Gorleston Psalter (1907)

Write to the email above to join          

Week 5, 30 May 2025, Merton College, Hawkins Room 

Work-in-Progress Session

• Irene Van Eldere | Leiden University : Designing Devotion: Characteristics of Early Middle Dutch Books of Hours
• Elvira Miceli | Wolfson College, Oxford : Kingship and the Question of Iconography in the Liber ad honorem Augusti: Bern, Burgerbiliothek, Cod. 120 II

Week 6, 6 June 2025, 3pm, Venue TBC

Connoisseurship and Medieval Manuscripts: A Roundtable

Michael Michael (University of Glasgow) | Emily Guerry (St Peter’s College, Oxford) | Peter Kidd (Independent Researcher)