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Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition

Join us for the third MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Ahmed El Shamsy about his new book, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition.

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: The Social Life of Books: A History of Reading Together at Home

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

What’s beneath the words: a paper journey

Presented in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book.

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Pieces of Gold: Piecing together a mutilated Timurid masterpiece

Shiva Mihan, Harvard Art Museums and Bahari Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries, gives a talk on her work in Persian arts.

Why should we read translated texts?

This episode explores what we lose or gain when we read a translated book. Are we missing something by reading the English translation and not the original language version? And what can the translation process tell us about how languages work?

Secrets from Missing Manuscripts

Oxford’s libraries house many beautiful books copied by hand before the arrival of print. What, though, about the many more books from the past which have not survived?

Sensing the Sacred: The Materiality and Aurality of Religious Texts

Laetitia Pilgrim, a final year history student at Queen's, gives a talk to accompany her exhibition at The Queen's college.

Literary Matter in Early Modern England

Dianne Mitchell and Katherine Hunt speak about their exhibition that showcases the material lives of literary texts from the collections of the Queen’s College Library.

Decay and closure of libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (6)

Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the sixth and final lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy.

Growth, competition, stability, loss, renewal - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (5)

Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fifth lecture inthe 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy.

Turnover in libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (4)

Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fourth lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy

Library books and personal books - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (3)

Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the third lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy.

English medieval library catalogues - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (2)

Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the second lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy.

Medieval libraries of Great Britain - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (1)

Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the first of the 2019 Lyell lecture series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy.

Trailer: Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian

A film of a class for 'Publication Beyond Print', the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. Filmed at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, by Natascha Domeisen.

15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database

Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019.

Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books

A lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, by Bodleian Printer in Residence, 2018, Emily Martin.

Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne

Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019.

Reading Beyond the Code

A Book at Lunchtime Seminar with Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan (Worcester College, Oxford), Professor Robyn Carston (Linguistics, UCL). Chaired by Professor Philip Bullock (TORCH Director).

The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Books for the common man'

David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the fourth Lyell lecture on 3rd May 2018.

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