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News from the medievalists in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford.

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Join us for today's Medieval English Research Seminar! 🗣️Enucleator venio, non pugnator": the uneven authority of pseudohistories in Gerald of Wales (Jenyth Evans, Oxford) 📅 Tues 12th Nov, 12pm 🏫English Faculty, Lecture Theatre 2
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14 Oct 2024
...a Middle English Reading Group... 📅 Fridays ⌚️ 3-4pm 📍 Beckington Room @LincolnOutreach @MedEngOxon @engfac @RebeccaMenmuir
Poster for the Middle English Reading Group. More screen-readable information can be accessed in the Medieval Booklet at https://users.ox.ac.uk/~fmml2152/medieval/MedievalBooklet-MT2024.pdf

ALT Poster for the Middle English Reading Group. More screen-readable information can be accessed in the Medieval Booklet at https://users.ox.ac.uk/~fmml2152/medieval/MedievalBooklet-MT2024.pdf

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We're back with the 📜Medieval English Research Seminar📜 for Michaelmas Term! 🗣️Ascetic Theory and the Impaired Christ: Peter Damian, Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich (Amy Appleford, Boston) 📅 Tues 15th Oct, 12pm 🏫 English Faculty, LT2 talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/…
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Primers Volume 7 is out, featuring the sequence, "Grendel's Mother Bites Back" by @lauravarnam! ninearchespress.com/publicat… You can see a sample poem and discussion with Laura here: ninearchespress.blogspot.com… @NineArchesPress

Primers Volume Seven | Nine Arches Press

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13 May 2024
On our blog this week, @DE_Sawyer (@engfac @MedEngOxon) writes about his brand new book, out this month with Oxford University Press, on Reading Middle English Verse. medieval.ox.ac.uk/2024/05/12…
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Dr Laura Varnam@lauravarnam
13 May 2024
Looking forward to talking about my Beowulf poetry project with @irinibus at the University of Bonn at the end of the week! @MedEngOxon
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Today we welcome @TimothyLGlover to our lunchtime research seminar! 📜Medieval English Research Seminar, TT 2024 🗣️Compilatory Form and Authorship in Richard Rolle and in Late-Medieval Religious Literature (Tim Glover, Cambridge) 📅 May 14th ⏰12.15 pm 🏫English Faculty, LT2
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Prof Francis Leneghan of the @engfac will share his current research on Old English prose translations of the Bible on May 30th at the University of Bergen (@BergenUib). This work is part of his Leverhulme-funded project, Origins of Old English Prose. uib.no/en/rg/litrel/170447/t…

Translating the Word

Come learn about the rich variety of Old English religious prose

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The Ten-Minute Book Club will be at the Vice-Chancellor’s awards showcase next week! The project features book club toolkits on Hoccleve, Henryson, Exeter Riddles, medieval lyric and Chaucer, with introductions written by medievalists across the Faculty: english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-…

Ten-Minute Book Club

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Today, from two of our doctoral students! 📜 Medieval English Research Seminar, TT 2024 🗣️Implicit and Explicit Critiques of Visual Culture in the Cloud-Corpus (Fred Morgan); Rewriting Heorot in American Fiction (Simon Heller) 📅 Tues 30 Apr ⏰ 12.15 pm 🏫English Faculty, LT2
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Dr Laura Varnam@lauravarnam
18 Apr 2024
Such a pleasure to be in conversation with artist Daisy Harcourt at her Women & Word exhibition at the Townhouse in Spitalfields this eve. Lovely audience and so nice to see some of my former students! 💞 (And yes, that’s Daisy’s portrait of me in the background!)
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A new term brings an exciting new Medieval Research Seminar lineup: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/… Join us at 12.15 on Tuesdays (Weeks 1-6) in St Cross Building, LT2.
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Call for papers for three ECR workshops on Old English prose in Oxford, February, May and October 2025. Apply by 1st July 2024!
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4 Mar 2024
On our blog today, Dr Laura Varnam @lauravarnam writes about her collection of poems for the women of Beowulf. Read the fantastic post (and poems!) at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2024/03/04… @MedEngOxon @engfac

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Daniel Sawyer@DE_Sawyer
19 Jan 2024
Summer ‘24 UNIQ research internships open to UK undergrads from under-represented / disadvantaged backgrounds: ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate…. 7 wks, free accom, £3K stipend. One of these involves editing Middle English lyrics from MS, with me.
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Our Old English scholars have been busy! A little🧵 of what they got up to in 2023... (1/13) @engfac @OxMedStud
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Daniel Thomas published an article in Anglo-Saxon England, 'A Close Fitt: Reading "Beowulf" Fitt II with the Andreas-poet'. Access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… (12/13)

A close fitt: reading Beowulf fitt II with the Andreas-poet | Anglo-Saxon England | Cambridge Core

A close fitt: reading Beowulf fitt II with the Andreas-poet - Volume 48

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What an amazing year! Did we miss anything? If so, send it our way so that we can share. We're excited to see what our colleagues and students get up to in 2024. (13/13)
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