Oxford is home not just to lost causes and dreaming spires but to the largest concentration of medieval manuscripts within any European university. This course will give you privileged access …
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century philologists have often claimed that early scholars could only generalize about the manuscripts they used, since they did not know the history of scripts and had no …
Over the past 20 years, the number of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that have been digitized has expanded dramatically. What opportunities does this widespread digitization make possible? In this class, …
The study of medieval manuscript fragments has developed into its own specialization in recent years, incorporating paleography, codicology, liturgiology, musicology, textual studies, art history, bibliography, provenance, and digital humanities, among …
Length: 10 hours Format: Online This course is for students who have not yet had the opportunity to study Islamicate manuscripts. It is an introductory course and will take a …
This seminar focuses on the Book of Hours—the medieval “bestseller”—popular for three hundred years, from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth century. The course will consider both the textual and pictorial contents …
