Oxford Medieval Studies
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OMS is the interdisciplinary platform for medieval studies across Oxford supported by TORCH. Posts by Henrike Lähnemann and Ashley Castelino
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You've read our booklet and watched our TikToks, but have you ever wondered what Oxford Medieval Studies is actually meant to be?
We've put together a short promotional video to explain exactly who we are and why you should join us! Watch it now at youtu.be/Jy1M4pP5cAc?...
We've put together a short promotional video to explain exactly who we are and why you should join us! Watch it now at youtu.be/Jy1M4pP5cAc?...
Listen to behind-the-scenes impressions from our marvellous Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025, with thx to 'Beyond Shakespeare' for capturing the excitement and buzz of the day! audioboom.com/posts/874257...
Oxford Mystery Cycle 2025 (Behind the Scenes)
Behind the Scenes
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July 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Listen to behind-the-scenes impressions from our marvellous Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025, with thx to 'Beyond Shakespeare' for capturing the excitement and buzz of the day! audioboom.com/posts/874257...
OPPORTUNITY 📯
Applications are now open for the @ducollections.bsky.social Collections Fellowships and Visiting Fellowships, enabling research across the historic collections of Durham!
Deadline: 3 September 2025
More details at durhamcollections.org.uk
Applications are now open for the @ducollections.bsky.social Collections Fellowships and Visiting Fellowships, enabling research across the historic collections of Durham!
Deadline: 3 September 2025
More details at durhamcollections.org.uk
July 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
OPPORTUNITY 📯
Applications are now open for the @ducollections.bsky.social Collections Fellowships and Visiting Fellowships, enabling research across the historic collections of Durham!
Deadline: 3 September 2025
More details at durhamcollections.org.uk
Applications are now open for the @ducollections.bsky.social Collections Fellowships and Visiting Fellowships, enabling research across the historic collections of Durham!
Deadline: 3 September 2025
More details at durhamcollections.org.uk
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies.
🖊️ Apply by 14 July
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies.
🖊️ Apply by 14 July
July 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies.
🖊️ Apply by 14 July
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are advertising a full-time 6-month postdoc position to work with Andrew Dunning on redeveloping the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project as a sustainable, open-access digital resource for manuscript studies.
🖊️ Apply by 14 July
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📅 Join the public lecture by prof Henrike Lähnemann @ox.ac.uk, titled "Early modern code-switching between Latin & the vernacular: a Low German religious community investigated." 10 July, 4:30-5:30 PM, Van der Leeuw hall, Academy Building. @rug.nl @oxmedstud.bsky.social More info 👉 lnkd.in/eQDev2ih
June 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📅 Join the public lecture by prof Henrike Lähnemann @ox.ac.uk, titled "Early modern code-switching between Latin & the vernacular: a Low German religious community investigated." 10 July, 4:30-5:30 PM, Van der Leeuw hall, Academy Building. @rug.nl @oxmedstud.bsky.social More info 👉 lnkd.in/eQDev2ih
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Just one week until we celebrate the launch of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays FILM!!
Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.
Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.
June 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Just one week until we celebrate the launch of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays FILM!!
Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.
Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.
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Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film!
Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
June 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film!
Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
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It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It's out! On Thursday, there was a book launch for this transformative study of how the Domesday Book was made. Astonishing that it has been possible to learn so much about something so apparently well-understood. @oxmedstud.bsky.social
Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film!
Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
June 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film!
Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...
Just one week until we celebrate the launch of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays FILM!!
Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.
Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.
June 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Just one week until we celebrate the launch of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays FILM!!
Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.
Join us for drinks and nibbles and share your thoughts about the future of this grand Oxford tradition.
It's Week 7! Just two more weeks to go, which means two more weeks of fantastic medieval lectures, seminars, reading groups, and more, all viewable now in the latest Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/09/m...
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June 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It's Week 7! Just two more weeks to go, which means two more weeks of fantastic medieval lectures, seminars, reading groups, and more, all viewable now in the latest Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/09/m...
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📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays!
🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm
📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm
📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
Film Launch Medieval Mystery Plays 2025 – Oxford Medieval Studies
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June 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays!
🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm
📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm
📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays!
🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm
📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm
📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
Film Launch Medieval Mystery Plays 2025 – Oxford Medieval Studies
medieval.ox.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
📯 Exciting news! To celebrate the end of the year and the success of this year's Medieval Mystery Plays, we have planned a very special FILM LAUNCH for the plays!
🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm
📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
🗓️ Thursday 19 June, 4.30-6pm
📌 Farmington Institute, Harris Manchester College
medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...
It's Week 6! Just 3 more weeks until the end of the academic year but we're nowhere near done yet - find out what's in store this week in the latest Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/02/medieval-matters-tt25-week-6
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June 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It's Week 6! Just 3 more weeks until the end of the academic year but we're nowhere near done yet - find out what's in store this week in the latest Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/02/medieval-matters-tt25-week-6
🗓️ Friday 30 May 🗓️
Join us at Lincoln College this Friday for 'Fragments of Lives', a day of discoveries about medieval lives in the muniments of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social , @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and beyond!
Join us at Lincoln College this Friday for 'Fragments of Lives', a day of discoveries about medieval lives in the muniments of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social , @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and beyond!
May 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🗓️ Friday 30 May 🗓️
Join us at Lincoln College this Friday for 'Fragments of Lives', a day of discoveries about medieval lives in the muniments of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social , @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and beyond!
Join us at Lincoln College this Friday for 'Fragments of Lives', a day of discoveries about medieval lives in the muniments of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social , @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and beyond!
Somehow, it's already Week 5 and we're half way through the term 🙀! See how our medieval community is marking this midpoint with this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/26/m...
Medieval matters TT25, Week 5 – Oxford Medieval Studies
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May 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Somehow, it's already Week 5 and we're half way through the term 🙀! See how our medieval community is marking this midpoint with this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/26/m...
It's Week 4! Take your mind of exams and essays with one of our many fantastic medieval events, all in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/19/m...
Medieval Matters TT25, Week 4 – Oxford Medieval Studies
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May 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It's Week 4! Take your mind of exams and essays with one of our many fantastic medieval events, all in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/19/m...
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Only discovered today the full page article in the Cherwell edition of 1st week cherwell.org/2025/05/05/m... 📯 @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social
Review: Medieval Mystery Play Cycle – 'Comedy, choirs and inflatable hammers' - Cherwell
Against the backdrop of St Edmund Hall’s medieval architecture, these short plays offered a tantalising window into medieval theatre.
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May 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Only discovered today the full page article in the Cherwell edition of 1st week cherwell.org/2025/05/05/m... 📯 @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social
It's Week 3! Check out the latest events in the world of medieval studies in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/12/m...
And do consider applying for this social media role - deadline this Friday!
And do consider applying for this social media role - deadline this Friday!
Medieval Matters TT25, Week 3 – Oxford Medieval Studies
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May 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It's Week 3! Check out the latest events in the world of medieval studies in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/12/m...
And do consider applying for this social media role - deadline this Friday!
And do consider applying for this social media role - deadline this Friday!
It's Week 2 of Trinity! From French palaeography to the science of the stars, check out what's going on in Oxford this week in the latest instalment of Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/05/m...
Medieval Matter TT25, Week 2 – Oxford Medieval Studies
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May 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It's Week 2 of Trinity! From French palaeography to the science of the stars, check out what's going on in Oxford this week in the latest instalment of Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/05/05/m...
@stedmundhall.bsky.social is opening up its Old Library for an exhibition of some medieval items - all welcome!
📆 Thursday 1 May (TOMORROW)
⌚️ 10am - 4pm
📆 Thursday 1 May (TOMORROW)
⌚️ 10am - 4pm
April 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
@stedmundhall.bsky.social is opening up its Old Library for an exhibition of some medieval items - all welcome!
📆 Thursday 1 May (TOMORROW)
⌚️ 10am - 4pm
📆 Thursday 1 May (TOMORROW)
⌚️ 10am - 4pm
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Friday 2 May, 5pm, @regentsox.bsky.social and on zoom I'll be talking after the AGM of the Henry Bradshaw Society @oxmedstud.bsky.social. #medievalsky
April 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Friday 2 May, 5pm, @regentsox.bsky.social and on zoom I'll be talking after the AGM of the Henry Bradshaw Society @oxmedstud.bsky.social. #medievalsky
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📯OPPORTUNITY: Oxford Medieval Studies Social Media Officer📯
As I prepare to depart soon, we're looking for someone to take over the social media reins. If you're interested in this role, have a look at my retrospective at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/21/o... and do consider applying!
As I prepare to depart soon, we're looking for someone to take over the social media reins. If you're interested in this role, have a look at my retrospective at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/21/o... and do consider applying!
Oxford Medieval Social Media: A Retrospective – Oxford Medieval Studies
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April 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
📯OPPORTUNITY: Oxford Medieval Studies Social Media Officer📯
As I prepare to depart soon, we're looking for someone to take over the social media reins. If you're interested in this role, have a look at my retrospective at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/21/o... and do consider applying!
As I prepare to depart soon, we're looking for someone to take over the social media reins. If you're interested in this role, have a look at my retrospective at medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/21/o... and do consider applying!
Somehow Trinity term has already snuck up upon us, but rejoice, for that means the 📯Oxford Medieval Studies Booklet📯 is ready for viewing!
Find it in its full glory along with some other announcements in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/m...
Find it in its full glory along with some other announcements in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/m...
April 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Somehow Trinity term has already snuck up upon us, but rejoice, for that means the 📯Oxford Medieval Studies Booklet📯 is ready for viewing!
Find it in its full glory along with some other announcements in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/m...
Find it in its full glory along with some other announcements in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/m...
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Having fun at the Medieval Mystery plays at Teddy Hall, especially Hans Sachs' "Adam & Eve". @hlaehnemann.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Having fun at the Medieval Mystery plays at Teddy Hall, especially Hans Sachs' "Adam & Eve". @hlaehnemann.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social
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An amazing day for the 2025
@oxmedstud.bsky.social Medieval Mystery Plays! Our very own @lincoln.ox.ac.uk students gave a fantastic performance in a Middle English comedy of the Crucifixion 🎭📯🎉
@oxmedstud.bsky.social Medieval Mystery Plays! Our very own @lincoln.ox.ac.uk students gave a fantastic performance in a Middle English comedy of the Crucifixion 🎭📯🎉
April 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
An amazing day for the 2025
@oxmedstud.bsky.social Medieval Mystery Plays! Our very own @lincoln.ox.ac.uk students gave a fantastic performance in a Middle English comedy of the Crucifixion 🎭📯🎉
@oxmedstud.bsky.social Medieval Mystery Plays! Our very own @lincoln.ox.ac.uk students gave a fantastic performance in a Middle English comedy of the Crucifixion 🎭📯🎉