Mummers with beasts' heads
Marginal illustration by Jehan de Grise and assistants. Flanders, 1344. MS Bodl. 264, fol. 181
The Divinity School, Bodleian Library.
Elaborate fan vaulting built in the perpendicular style, 1427–83.
Anatomical illustration showing the veins
Medical miscellany, late 13th century. MS. Ashmole 399, fol. 18r.
The Divinity School, Bodleian Library.
Elaborate fan vaulting built in the perpendicular style, 1427–83.
The Divinity School, Bodleian Library.
Elaborate fan vaulting built in the perpendicular style, 1427–83.
The Divinity School, Bodleian Library.
Elaborate fan vaulting built in the perpendicular style, 1427–83.
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Hilary Term 2010
Week 4
"-isms": Doctrines and Traditions in Early Modern Thought
Noel Malcolm, 'Despotism'
Wed 5pm, Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Drama in Performance
David Wiles, 'Milton And The Idea Of A Republican Theatre'
Wednesday 5.15pm, Summer Common Room, Magdalen
The Reading of Hebrew and Jewish Texts
Scott Mandelbrote, 'Jews, Christians, and the significance of the Septuagint from Azariah de' Rossi to Richard Simon'
Thursday 2.30pm, Exeter College
Carlyle Lectures: The Transformation of the Republican Idea in the Italian Renaissance
James Hankins, 'The Post-Monarchical Moment'
Thursday 5pm, Examination Schools
Seminar in medieval and renaissance music
Renata Pieragostini , 'Outsiders' Incursions into Music in Late Medieval Italy'
Thursday 5pm, Wharton Room, All Souls College
History of the Book, 1450–1830
Nathalie Ferrand, 'Reading books with eyes wide open: illustrated novels in the Enlightenment'
Friday 2.15pm, Wharton Room, All Souls College
Key Words in French Culture
Kate Tunstall, 'The European "Enlightenment"'
Friday 5.15pm, Maison Française d'Oxford
Week 5
Besterman Centre of the Enlightenment
Dr Mark Philp & Dr David O'Shaughnessy, 'The Godwin Project'
Monday 5pm, Voltaire Foundation
Early Modern Literature Seminar
Kathy Eden, 'The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy'
Tuesday 5pm, Breakfast Room, Merton College
Medieval Church and Culture seminar: Passing On
Roberta Gilchrist, 'Ancient things in medieval graves: heirlooms or occult objects?'
Tuesday 5.15pm, Garrard Room, Harris Manchester College
Diderot on Radio 3
Last week BBC Radio 3 broadcast a series of essays on the eighteenth-century philosopher and writer, Denis Diderot, with extensive contributions from Kate Tunstall (Worcester College) and Caroline Warman (Jesus College). The programmes can be heard for the next few days on the BBC iPlayer.Upcoming Conferences
Calls for Papers
'Teutonic Philosophy': Jacob Boehme (1575–1624) in context