Seminar Series Trinity Term 2023
The Smiling Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts
Arumugam Building, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
Thursdays 17:15, Weeks 2, 4, 6 & 8
‘Brother, he said, the pages painted by the brush of Franco Bolognese smile more brightly’
Dante, Purgatorio, XI 82-84
Seminars will take place in the Arumugam Building, St Catherine’s College, and are usually followed by a drinks reception. Prior booking not required.
Series organisers: Gervase Rosser , Elena Lichmanova (Merton)
Thursday 4 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
17:15 - Visual Exegesis and its Deployment in Insular Illumination
Michelle Brown (University of London)
Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
17:15 - Blood Piety and Anti-Judaism in an Early Fourteenth-century Illuminated Prayer Book from Liège
Sara Lipton (Stony Brook University)
For more information, https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/3e4694e9-409f-4a80-aed3-e8b8185cff67