Below you will find an archive of papers and lectures from the following past events:
- Seminar Series, Hilary Term 2023
- Second OMCN conference, 29 September 2022 (view the archived schedule here)
- Reading of Psalm 32 from the Wycliffite Bible
- Lecture Series, Trinity Term 2022
- Inaugural OMCN conference, 9 October 2021 (view the archived schedule here)
Seminar Series, Hilary Term 2023
Second Conference, 29 September 2022
Keynote: Prof. Michael Kuczynski (Tulane): Editing Vernacular Commentary Texts: Special Considerations
Slides available here
Panel I
Your Life”: Hellenistic Jewish Sages’ Commentary on the Life of Solomon
Joshua Gregory Caminiti (Oxford): The association of Punic and Hebrew in
North African exegesis and ecclesial identity
Jiachun XU (University of Amsterdam): Scriptural Constraints and Philosophical Solutions: Different Understandings of Time in Augustine’s Commentaries on Genesis (Slides available here)
Panel II
Anna Wilmore (Oxford): “Que ceste loy ne s’entendoit pas d’elle”: Marian lyric as commentary on Esther
Eugenia Vorobeva (Jesus College, Oxford): Intertextuality and Suffering in Andreas saga postola I (Slides available here)
Panel III
Andrew Kraebel (Trinity University): Richard Rolle’s Glosses on the Lessons of the Dead: Exegesis and Devotion (Slides available here)
Alexandra Barnes (Linacre College, Oxford): Authority in the Margins: The Glossed Catechetical Tracts of MS Bodley 938 and Wycliffite Exegetical Thought (Slides available here)
Panel IV
Hannah Schühle-Lewis (University of Kent): ‘Into the cumpeny of feythful men’: Galatians, Authority and The Middle English Declaracion on the Bible (Slides available here)
Reading of Psalm 32 from the Wycliffite Bible
Read in original Middle English pronunciation by Audrey Southgate (Merton College, Oxford)
Video recorded live by Samuel Max at a public engagement event with Laurelin Voices at St Mary the Virgin, 9 April 2022
Lecture Series 2022
Slides available here
Slides available here
Slides available here
Inaugural Workshop 2021
Our inaugural workshop took place at Christ Church on Saturday, 9 October 2021. You can also view the workshop programme and the original CfP (archived version).
Keynotes
Alastair Minnis (Yale University): ‘Miraclis Pleyinge’ and scholastic literary theory in vulgari
Andrew Kraebel (Trinity University, San Antonio, TX): Ideas of Lyric and Dramatic Voice in Medieval Commentary
Slides available here
Panels
Zachary Guiliano (St Edmund Hall, Oxford): The patristic sources of Gospel commentaries in the Middle Ages
Rachel Cresswell (Blackfriars, Oxford): Scripture as signa in the writings of Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)
Timothy Glover (Exeter, Oxford): Biblical Exegesis and the Voice of Richard Rolle
Malena Ratzke (University of Hamburg): Typological interpretation of the Bible in image and text: The tradition of the Biblia pauperum
Eliza Hoyer-Millar (Oxford): Marie de France’s lai Le Fresne: A lesson in Hugh of St Victor’s exegesis ad litteram
Elizabeth Solopova (Christ Church, Oxford): Translation as commentary? Literal and expository in the Wycliffite Bible
Bond West (Lincoln, Oxford): Stjórn I and the Historical Reading of Scripture