Dr Rosa Vidal Doval has been awarded a one-year Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to study the development of purity of blood.
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Research Projects
Professor Geraldine Hazbun was awarded a one year Leverhulme Fellowship for her project exploring the representation of risk in epic literature of medieval Spain.
Prof. Henrike Lähnemann has received a three-year ProNiedersachsen grant in conjunction with the Klosterkammer Niedersachsen and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung to continue editing the letter books of Northern German nuns together with the historian Prof.
Centres and Collaborations
Oxford Medieval Studies is one of the largest forums in the world for interdisciplinary research on the Middle Ages, bringing together over 200 academics and a large body of graduate students. The period of a thousand years from c.500 to c.
Past Projects
Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts studies the medieval transmission of learning from the ecclesiastical and academic elites to the wider readership that could be reached through the vernacular.
Books printed between 1450 (the year of Gutenberg’s invention of modern printing) and 1500 (conventional cut-off date in scholarship) are known as incunabula.
The Centre for the Study of the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Oxford University was created in 2005. It currently hosts two linked research projects: the Cantigas de Santa Maria database and the new Cantigas de Santa Maria critical edition.
This companion volume offers an introduction to European Portuguese literature for university-level readers.
This project proposes for the first time to use the traded objects themselves, 15th-century books which still survive in their thousands, as essential and unquestionable evidence of the booktrade, to substantially complement current research on the booktr
The project brings together literary and linguistics specialists from the UK, France, and Spain to share methodologies in an interdisciplinary interrogation of the idea and manifestations of 'voice' in French literary texts from the twelfth to fifteenth c