Another lecture in the series of meetings on Geoffrey Chaucer organised by the Bodleian Library will take place on Wednesday, 24 April 2024 at 14:00 GMT (15:00 CET). During the talk entitled “Exhibiting Chaucer”, Marion Turner (JRR Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall) will discuss the current exhibition Chaucer Here and Now. Registration for the meeting is still open: Bodleian Library events.
Following the online webinar Chaucer Here and Now (March 14), the Bodleian Library will present medieval manuscripts from its collection during an online lecture ‘The hooly blisful martir for to seke’. Manuscripts with Chaucer’s pilgrims. The meeting will take place on Monday 25 March 2024 at 4.30–5.30pm (GMT). The archivists, Dr Alison Ray (St Peter’s College) and Dr Andrew Dunning (Bodleian Library), “will explore the new iconography that developed after Thomas Becket’s murder, the impact of his death on Oxford’s religious houses and how Canterbury became a significant pilgrimage destination”. Booking information is available at the Bodleian Library events.
A webinar on the themes of Chaucer Here and Now will take place on Thursday 14 March 2024 at 5pm–6pm GMT (6pm-7pm CET) via Zoom. Professor Marion Turner will talk about manuscripts and printed books from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first and discuss some of the ways in which readers of Chaucer have responded to and reimagined Chaucer’s works. The webinar will feature some of the Bodleian’s treasures shown under the visualiser. This event takes place online via Zoom. Tickets are free, and booking is required via Bodleian Library events.
On Monday 28 November 2022, 18:00-19:00 (CET) Christopher de Hamel will introduce his new book and talk about people who spent their lives with medieval manuscripts from the eleventh century to the twentieth. “In this talk we will meet the patrons and illuminators, but also the antiquaries and collectors, the librarians, the dealers, the scholars and a rabbi and even a forger, all brought together by their passion for the books of the Middle Ages.” (from: Bodleian Library). This event is free and available to attend in person at the Weston Library or online via Zoom. For registration and further […]