University of Oxford Archive
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Student Violence at the University of Oxford
Posted on May 9, 2013 | No CommentsMy first foray of KZOO 2013 couldn't have been off to a better start with, “I just don’t want to die without a few scars”: Medieval Fight Clubs, Masculine Identity, and Public (Dis)order. There were only two papers in this session and both were riveting. I felt like I couldn't type fast enough to get it all in! The first paper was given by Professor Andrew Larsen of Marquette University. Professor Larsen published a book on high and late medieval student violence and the Saint Scholastica's Day Riot at Oxford university. -
Reality and Truth in Thomas of York: Study and Text
Posted on March 10, 2013 | No CommentsThe investigation is conducted through a study of opposites into which being is divided. These opposites are principally the one and the many, potency and act, truth and falsity. -
Oxford Tolkien Spring School launched
Posted on January 25, 2013 | No CommentsOrganised by Oxford University's Faculty of English Language and Literature where Tolkien taught for most of his career, the spring school is aimed at those who have read some of Tolkien’s fiction and wish to learn more. -
The Oxford Calculators
Posted on January 7, 2013 | No CommentsOxford’s medieval philosophers deserve greater recognition, says Mark Thakkar -
Medieval Nunnery excavated in Oxford
Posted on November 15, 2012 | No CommentsHundreds of volunteers worked with archaeologists from the University of Oxford to excavate the site of a medieval nunnery, and have even uncovered a small group of prehistoric worked flints, including a beautiful Bronze Age arrowhead which is about 4000 years old. -
University of Oxford and Vatican to digitize 1.5 million pages of historical texts
Posted on April 12, 2012 | No CommentsA collaboration between the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana at the Vatican will bring historical texts dating back to the Middle Ages into the digital era. -
Bodleian Libraries Cairo Genizah collection now available online
Posted on March 5, 2012 | No CommentsFrom the store room to the web: Bodleian launches website featuring its 25,000 Cairo Genizah fragments -
A Question of Fish: Graduates and their Monasteries in the Middle Ages
Posted on December 7, 2011 | No CommentsI would like to contend that the impact of monk graduates upon the shape of medieval monasticism was for most communities very much smaller than historians have tended to suggest. -
Medieval Student Violence
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsThroughout the middle ages university towns such as Oxford, Paris and Bologna were incredibly dangerous places to live. -
New App features Bodleian Treasures
Posted on November 8, 2011 | No CommentsThe Bodleian Libraries have launched a mobile app featuring a selection of the rarest, most important and most evocative objects from the Bodleian collections. -
Treasures of the Bodleian exhibition opens today
Posted on September 30, 2011 | No CommentsThe Bodleian Libraries’ autumn exhibition ‘Treasures of the Bodleian’ opens to the public today (Friday 30 September). The exhibition will feature a selection of the Bodleian’s rarest, most important and... -
Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah now available online
Posted on September 21, 2011 | No CommentsOxford University’s Bodleian Libraries have digitized and made available online part of the first comprehensive code of Jewish Law, Mishneh Torah (http://maimonides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Written between 1170 and 1180 by the rabbinic...
