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.

Detail from depiction of the Garden of Eden in De Proprietatibus Rerum (Paris, 1414). Image courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Event
Learning to Read the Hard Way (Peter of Celle: "On Afflication and Reading")	Balliol College	22 February, 2003
Medieval History: Angevin England through Medieval Eyes	Balliol College	24 February, 2001
Imagery of Dance in Early Medieval Europe	Balliol College	4 March, 2000
Late Medieval Song	University College	6 March, 1999
Private Book-Collecting in Spain from St Isidore (570-636) to the Marquis of Santillana (1398-1458)	Magdalen College	28 February, 1998
Language and National Identity in the British Isles 1100-1400	University College	22 February, 1997
Byrhtferth and his Books	Magdalen College	24 February, 1996
On Recognising and Failing to Recognise Signals to Irony and Fiction in Court Literature	Summer Common Room, Magdalen College	25 February, 1995
Editing Medieval Lyric Poetry: Marcabru's D'aisso lau Dieu	St. John's College	26 February, 1994
Images and Audience: Piers Plowman and Wallpainting	Lady Margaret Hall	6 March, 1993
Blossoming Garden & Circling Melody: a reading of Paradiso XXIII	Lady Margaret Hall	19 February, 1992
Excommunication and Conscience in the Middle Ages	Lady Margaret Hall	16 February, 1991
The Owl and the Nightingale	Lady Margaret Hall	24 February, 1990
The Individual Voice in Medieval Spanish Prose	St. Hilda's College	11 March, 1989
Anglo-Norman Medicine	St. Hilda's College	5 March, 1988
Justice and Judgement at the Court of King Arthur: The Trial of Guinevere	St. Hilda's College	14 March, 1987
Towards a History of Medieval Theory and Criticism	Lady Margaret Hall	15 March, 1986
Literal and Metaphorical in the Bible	Lady Margaret Hall	9 March, 1985
Thomas More and the Visual Arts	Lady Margaret Hall	3 March, 1984
God's Amnesty: Hartmann's Gregorius and the Vie du Pape Saint Gregoire	Lady Margaret Hall	5 March, 1983
The Writings of Marguerite Porete		13 March, 1982
Tribute to Professor Jack Bennett		14 March, 1981
The Bamberg MSS of c.1000AD and the God of the World		15 March, 1980
William Marshall and Arthur of Britanny: A Detective Story	Merton College	17 March, 1979
Fourteenth-century Theology. Piers Plowman and some Radical Franciscans	Merton College	11 March, 1978
By Hylle and by Vale in the Gawain Country	Merton College	12 March, 1977
The Countesses of Gloucester and the status of women in Norman and Angevin England	Merton College	13 March, 1976
Petrarch and Monasticism	Merton College	15 March, 1975
The Right to Emend	Merton College	16 March, 1974
Allegory in the Divina Commedia: the Epistle to Cangrande	St. Peter's College	17 March, 1973
Medieval Patterns of History	Merton College	11 March, 1972
The pseudo-Denys in the West	Merton College	13 March, 1971
Peasant Holding and Inheritance Custom in Medieval England: A Comparative Study	Merton College	14 March, 1970
Medieval English Literature: Heads and Tales	Merton College	15 March, 1969
Dafydd ap Gwilym: a Welsh Contemporary of Chaucer	Balliol College	16 March, 1968
The Conception of the old English Phoenix	Balliol College	18 March, 1967
Approaches to Chaucer	Balliol College	19 March, 1966
Anglo-Saxon Illumination and the Continent in the 11th Century	Taylorian Institute	13 March, 1965
Dante and Wisdom	Magdalen College	21 March, 1964
A Mediaeval Bishop of Norwich: Dr Thomas Brouns	Magdalen College	16 March, 1963
Rhetoric in Fourteenth Century Oxford	New Room, Magdalen College	17 March, 1962
The Twelfth Century Renaissance in French Literature	New Room, Magdalen College	11 March, 1961
The Lollard Knights	New Common Room, Merton College	12 March, 1960
Tradition and Design in Twelfth-century French Romance	Upper Bursary, Merton College	7 March, 1959
The Earliest Records of the British Heroic Age	Upper Bursary, Merton College	8 March, 1958
Pfaff at 50: New Devotions and Religious Change in Late Medieval England. Celebrating 50 years of Richard Pfaff's New Liturgical Feasts	University of Nottingham

The Dream of the Rood' and Eighth-Century Northumbria	Mansfield College

Gerald's Hard Country: Representations of Landscape and Enclosure in the Itinerarium Kambriae	Cardiff University