Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - The Leofric Missal: what can a historian learn from a liturgical book?
  Helen Gittos

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Teaching and healing at St Frideswide’s priory in 12th-century Oxford
  Andrew Dunning

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Why collect hundreds of songs without any musical notation? The case of MS. Douce 308
  Elizabeth Eva Leach (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Scientific identification of pigments in medieval manuscripts: how, when, and why to do it
  Richard Gameson, Andrew Beeby

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Hoccleve's Community of Practice: Clerks, Scripts, and London Literature
  Professor Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Richard Methley’s “new Manner of Writing – to the Moment”: Narrative Time and Mystical Theology in Late Fifteenth-Century England
  Laura Saetveit Miles (Bergen)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - On Killdeer and Codicology: The Provenance of the Corpus Troilus
  Kathleen Kennedy (Bristol)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Ideas on Language and Biblical Heritage in Early Medieval Insular Thought
  Ciaran Arthur (NUI Galway)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - A New Setting for the Pearl Poet
  Sarah McNamer (Georgetown)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - ‘The Manuscripts of Alcuin’s Carmina’ and ‘Drawing the Reader’s Attention: Dryhthelm’s Vision of the Otherworld and the Archangel St Michael in CCCC, MS 41’
  Colleen Curran, Patricia O Connor
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - MS Junius 11: A Poetic Manuscript
  Carl Kears (King’s College, London)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - ‘Psalms and Psychogeography in the Old English Solomon and Saturn’ and ‘Science and Literature – a Marriage of Ideas: “The Sun in the South” Revisited’
  Rachel Burns, Anthony Harris (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - ‘Flickers of past practice: The poetic lexicon of cremation in Old English’ & ‘The composition of Old English hagiographic verse: the Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium) as micro-library’
  Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin (Lincoln College), Tom Revell (Balliol College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - CANCELLED ‘Beowulf and the hunt’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Francis Leneghan (St Cross College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - ‘“Sounding different” in medieval Wales according to its poets’ & ‘Song and space: movement, navigation, and the fifteenth-century English carol’
  Llewelyn Hopwood (Corpus Christi College), Micah Mackay (Balliol College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - ‘Collecting and annotating Old Norse texts: on the library of Thormodus Torfæus’
  Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (Linacre College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - The true portrait of Christ: origins and afterlife of a medieval forgery’
  Michael Kuczynski (Tulane University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - ‘Light metaphysics and contingent poetics in Chaucer’s House of Fame’ & ‘The mythology of trauma in Chaucer’s Anelida and Arcite’
  Peter Buchanan (Lady Margaret Hall), Pamela Kask (Mansfield College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - ‘This word in Latyn: late-medieval religious macaronic lyric’
  Jane Griffiths (Wadham College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - ‘Dragons in Old English’
  Paul Acker (St Louis University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - ‘“And bi þe bodi he him hent, | And al to peces here torent”: violent fragmentation and productive uncertainty in The Seven Sages of Rome’
  Hannah Bower (University of Cambridge)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - ‘Polemicising doubt in late medieval England: adaptations of Latin casuistry in Wyclif, Dives and Pauper and Margery Kempe’
  Emily Corran (UCL)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - ‘“If you will listen patiently”: conversion, conversation and cosmopolitanism in Old Icelandic sagas of Apostles’
  Carl Phelpstead (University of Cardiff)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - ‘“In pious hearts, a tree must grafted be”: Mechthild of Hackeborn’s The Boke of Holy Grace and The Desert of Religion’
  Anne Mouron (Regent’s Park)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - ‘On the work of the late Anne Hudson (1938-2021)’
  Helen Barr, Cosima Gillhammer, Vincent Gillespie, Elizabeth Solopova, Annie Sutherland
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - ‘Preaching to the choir: a sceptical look at English Carthusian transmission of vernacular spiritual writings’
  Vincent Gillespie
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Doing Justice: Who Read Middle English Romance and Why Does it Matter?
  Nicola McDonald ((York))
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - 'The Wanderer and the Legacy of Pathetic Fallacy'
  Harriet Soper (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - "Skelton and the Commonweal: Greek History in Quattrocento England’ , and ‘K-I-S-S-I-N-G: Erotic Obscenity and “Young Readers” of the Merchant’s Tale, 1930–2008
  Lucy Fleming (New College), John Colley (Jesus College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Astor Visiting Lecturer / Medieval Studies Lecture: ‘Do we mean lyric or song?
  Prof. Ardis Butterfield
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Reading the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda
  Brittany Schorn (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 15 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Before Attenborough: Early Medieval Natural History, Animal Diversity and “Edutainment”
  Megan Cavell (Birmingham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Syrian Silks: The Fabrics of English Identity
  Eleanor Myerson (Cambridge)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Synchronic histories of Older Scots Literature: the rewards and challenges of reconstruction
  Rhiannon Purdie (St Andrews)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Humour and Horror in Ælfric ́s Passion of St Vincent’ (Chair: Rachel Burns)
  Niamh Kehoe (University of Düsseldorf)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Imagining Margery and Julian: a reading and Q and A’
  Victoria MacKenzie
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Gifts and Books’
  Prof. Nicholas Perkins (St Hugh's College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Hidden Things: A Biblical Context for the Exeter Book Riddles’
  Dr Rachel A. Burns (Hertford College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Christ’s Burial on the Late Medieval Stage’ / ‘“Hevenysh Revoluciouns”: The Complaint of Mars in motion’
  Sigrid Koerner (Jesus College), Shelley Williams (Jesus College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: Urban Humanism and Chaucer’s House of Fame’
  Prof. Helen Fulton (University of Bristol)
  Medieval English Research Seminar