Society Events

Over the past century, the Society has catalysed medieval research through hundreds of events, directly held or sponsored, bringing together many thousands of medievalists. Below you may browse the super-abundance of topics explored. The highlights of the Society's modern calendar are the Day Conference, the Annual Lecture and the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference.

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Maurice Keen Medieval History: Angevin England through Medieval Eyes Balliol College -
Peter Dronke Imagery of Dance in Early Medieval Europe Balliol College -
Reinhard Strohm Late Medieval Song University College -
Ian Michael Private Book-Collecting in Spain from St Isidore (570-636) to the Marquis of Santillana (1398-1458) Magdalen College -
David Rees Language and National Identity in the British Isles 1100-1400 University College -
Michael Lapidge Byrhtferth and his Books Magdalen College -
Dennis Green On Recognising and Failing to Recognise Signals to Irony and Fiction in Court Literature Summer Common Room, Magdalen College -
Linda M. Paterson Editing Medieval Lyric Poetry: Marcabru's D'aisso lau Dieu St. John's College -
C. David Benson Images and Audience: Piers Plowman and Wallpainting Lady Margaret Hall -
Patrick Boyde Blossoming Garden & Circling Melody: a reading of Paradiso XXIII Lady Margaret Hall -
Alexander Murray Excommunication and Conscience in the Middle Ages Lady Margaret Hall -
Jill Mann The Owl and the Nightingale Lady Margaret Hall -
Alan Deyermond The Individual Voice in Medieval Spanish Prose St. Hilda's College -
Tony Hunt Anglo-Norman Medicine St. Hilda's College -
Stephen White Justice and Judgement at the Court of King Arthur: The Trial of Guinevere St. Hilda's College -
Alastair Minnis Towards a History of Medieval Theory and Criticism Lady Margaret Hall -
G.R. Evans Literal and Metaphorical in the Bible Lady Margaret Hall -
Damasus Trapp Thomas More and the Visual Arts Lady Margaret Hall -
Leslie Seiffert God's Amnesty: Hartmann's Gregorius and the Vie du Pape Saint Gregoire Lady Margaret Hall -
Peter Dronke The Writings of Marguerite Porete
Douglas Gray Tribute to Professor Jack Bennett
Henry Mayr-Harting The Bamberg MSS of c.1000AD and the God of the World
Dominica Legge William Marshall and Arthur of Britanny: A Detective Story Merton College -
Janet Coleman Fourteenth-century Theology. Piers Plowman and some Radical Franciscans Merton College -
R.W.V. Elliott By Hylle and by Vale in the Gawain Country Merton College -
Robert B. Patterson The Countesses of Gloucester and the status of women in Norman and Angevin England Merton College -
Giles Constable Petrarch and Monasticism Merton College -
T.B.W. Reid The Right to Emend Merton College -
Colin Hardie Allegory in the Divina Commedia: the Epistle to Cangrande St. Peter's College -
F.P. Pickering Medieval Patterns of History Merton College -
David Luscombe The pseudo-Denys in the West Merton College -
K. Ugawa Peasant Holding and Inheritance Custom in Medieval England: A Comparative Study Merton College -
Beatrice White Medieval English Literature: Heads and Tales Merton College -
Rachel Bromwich Dafydd ap Gwilym: a Welsh Contemporary of Chaucer Balliol College -
J.E. Cross The Conception of the old English Phoenix Balliol College -
E. Talbot Donaldson Approaches to Chaucer Balliol College - ALGM66
J.J.G. Alexander Anglo-Saxon Illumination and the Continent in the 11th Century Taylorian Institute - ALGM65
Marie Thérèse d'Alverny Dante and Wisdom Magdalen College -
E.F. Jacob A Mediaeval Bishop of Norwich: Dr Thomas Brouns Magdalen College - ALGM63
James J. Murphy Rhetoric in Fourteenth Century Oxford New Room, Magdalen College -
Alfred Ewert The Twelfth Century Renaissance in French Literature New Room, Magdalen College -
K.B. McFarlane The Lollard Knights New Common Room, Merton College -
Eugène Vinaver Tradition and Design in Twelfth-century French Romance Upper Bursary, Merton College -
Nora Chadwick The Earliest Records of the British Heroic Age Upper Bursary, Merton College -