OxByzList: Hilary Week 6 Oxford Listings, 18-24 January
Oxford University Byzantine Society
- First, the deadline for the OUBS WIP Seminar, 'In Tesserae' has been extended to Friday, January 23rd. Send in a 'mini-abstract' of under 100 words on anything you are working on for a 5-10 minute presentation. It might be a source that you've just discovered and you're attempting to apply, a theory or methodology that you're trying to make fit, a draft of a conference abstract or presentation, a section of an essay or thesis, or anything else that you would like to think through with your peers.
- Secondly, if you would like to come on the OUBS trip to Sicily (!), please formally reserve your place by midnight on Wednesday, January 21st. The trip deposit is £90, which covers accommodation costs for the entire duration of the trip, as well as the transportation costs for private hires. You can reserve by completing the form here, and you must fill out the form to reserve a place.
Monday
19/01/2026, 17:00 - Wharton Room, All Souls College, OX1 4AL; for Teams access join group “Medieval History Research Seminar” (team code rmppucs)
Medieval History Seminar - John Sabapathy (UCL): ‘Humanism and Bestiality in the Land of Cockagne’
Tuesday
20/01/2026, 14:00 - New Seminar Room, St John’s College, St Giles, OX1 3JP
Europe in the Middle Ages - Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell (Oxford): ‘Beyond the Mediterranean by land and sea: Two medieval cases in a (very) broad context’
20/01/2026, 16:30 - Online via Microsoft Teams. The link can be obtained by emailing Ugo Mondini (ugo.m...@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk) by the day before each session
JFF Project Euripides Byzantinus: Euripides and the Middle Ages - Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley): ‘The nature of Palaeologan annotations on Euripides: Moschopulus, Thomas, and Triclinius’
Wednesday
21/01/2026, 17:00 - Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, OX1 3LU
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar - John Mulhall (Purdue): ‘The Republic of Translators: Translating from Greek and Arabic into Latin in the Twelfth-Century Mediterranean’
Thursday
22/01/2026, 13:15 - Online, for registration please contact maren....@student.uni-tuebingen.de
Tübingen Byzantine and Near Eastern Seminar - Giulia Rossetto (Vienna): ‘Unveiling the Patchwork Palimpsest: The Codex Sinaiticus Arabicus as a Treasure Trove of Languages and Texts’
22/01/2026, 16:00 - Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, OX1 AJF
Late Roman Seminar - Raymond Ngoh (Keble): ‘Examining the Praetorian Prefects and Prefecture through the Eyes of Zosimus’
22/01/2026, 17:15 - KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, OX1 2LJ
Khalili Research - Yusuf Tayara (Wolfson College): Timekeeping between art and science: integrated approaches to the history of Mamluk astronomy
Friday
23/01/2026, 09:30 - Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, OX1 3LU
Byzantine Text Seminar - Dr Bazzani: The seminar sessions will focus on the text of the Miracles of St Artemios.
To sign up and receive the work materials, email marina....@classics.ox.ac.uk
23/01/2026, 12:00 - Visiting Scholars Centre, Weston Library, Broad Street, OX1 3BG
Lectures on the History of the Bible: From Manuscripts to Print - The Hebrew Bible
This course offers an illustrated introduction to the transmission and history of one of the world’s most influential texts: the Bible. Beginning with the Hebrew Bible and the earliest biblical papyri and manuscripts, it traces the development of biblical texts over more than two millennia, from the premodern Mediterranean world to the first printed editions of the Late Middle Ages. Drawing on some of the Bodleian Library’s most remarkable biblical treasures, the lectures provide direct insight into how the copying, translation, and circulation of the Bible shaped the history of the book and, more broadly, human culture. Particular emphasis is placed on first-hand engagement with manuscripts in different languages, scripts, layouts, and visual traditions.
No prior knowledge of biblical languages is required. By the end of the course, participants will have gained a basic familiarity with biblical manuscripts across multiple traditions and will be able to identify key scripts, layouts, and illustrative features, as well as appreciate their cultural and historical significance.
Places are limited. To register interest and secure a place, please contact the lecturer at peter...@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
23/01/2026, 16:00 - Seminar Room, History of Art, Schwarzmann Centre, Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG
Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain and Europe - Databases: A Skills Workshop
Would you like to learn how to use unfamiliar databases? How can we use them to learn about, say, a place like Cerne Abbas (Dorset), its archaeology, history and art, the people who worked there and the written legacy they've left? This is the second of our skills workshops. It's a chance to learn
more about the kinds of databases many of us use frequently but which aren't always easy to navigate if you're not familiar with them. Bring your questions, queries and expertise!
Examples we could discuss include: Portable Antiquities Scheme (Gittos), Historic Environment Record (Gittos), Dictionary/ Corpus of Old English (Appleton), FONTES (Appleton), PASE (Alphey), Electronic Sawyer (O'Brien), Online Dictionary of the Irish Language (O'Brien), DMLBS (McKeon), ECHOE (Appleton), Library of Latin Texts (McKeon), Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (Gittos), English Placenames Portal (Alphey)
Drinks in the Jericho afterwards.
If there are any events you would like to share with the OUBS, please get into contact with us.
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Nidanu O'Shea
DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Secretary, Oxford University Byzantine Society
http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com