• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Oren Margolis (University of Oxford) , Natalia Nowakowska (University of Oxford) , Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford) , John Watts (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Wednesdays at 5 pm

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Toward a History of Obliteration in the Age of Paper
  John Gagné (University of Sydney)

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Divine Impressions: Aldus Manutius and Catherine of Siena
  Oren Margolis (Somerville College)

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Economic Dimension of Early Printing: Book Prices in Venice (1484-88), from the Zornale of Francesco de Madiis
  Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College)

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Manuscript/Print Age in Jewish Book History: The Different Audiences of the Illustrated Passover Haggadah
  Katrin Kogman Appel (University of Münster / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Painting on Parchment
  Stella Panayotova (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book Cultures: Forensic Science and Textual Hermeneutics
  Stephen Milner (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Coats of Arms in Books and Beyond: The Objectivation of Heraldry and Its Materiality
  Torsten Hiltmann (University of Münster)

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Final discussion and display of early books
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Universal Ordinary: meditations on a text by Maitland
  David D’Avray (UCL)

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Adapting to a Changing Political Environment: the Benedictine Monasteries in England and the Low Countries in the Later Middle Ages
  Jérôme Verdoot (VUB)

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Good Old Law in England and Sicily
  Pippa Byrne (Oxford)

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Art, objects and ideas in the records of the medieval Court of Chivalry’
  Julian Luxford (St Andrews)

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Structures, Networks, and ‘Europeanness’: A Comparison of Late Medieval English and Irish Towns'
  ***This meeting will take place in the Morelli Room***
  Eliza Hartrich (Sheffield)

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Late Medieval ‘Artillery Revolution’ in Comparative Perspective. Technology, Military Organisation, and Statebuilding in England and Elsewhere (c.1400 - c. 1500).
  Michael Depreter (VUB)

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Soldier in Later Medieval England: ‘hadde he ridden, no man ferre’
  ***This meeting will take place in the Rainolds Room***
  Adrian Bell (Reading)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Discussion
  Various Speakers