Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2024: Scripts & Signs

MONDAY, APRIL 8

9:30-10:00 Registration (in-person)

10:00-11:30 Session 1: Divine Affectivity

• Marlene Schilling, 'Connected through Script - Personifications of time as a distinct form of devotion across Northern German Convents'
• Lucy Dallas, 'Together in Love: Carthusian Marginalia in the Book of Margery Kempe'
• Wilhelm Lungar, 'Communicating Identity on Scandinavian Monastic Seals in the Middle Ages'

11:30-12:00 Break with refreshments

12:00-13:30 Session 2: Scribes & Song

• Peter Fraundorfer, 'Did somebody write a Latin-Greek Sammelbund for the monastic school of Reichenau Abbey?'
• Thomas Phillips, '1000 Years Later: Reconstructing Fragments of the Anglo-Saxon Office of St. Alban'
• Ellen Hausner, 'A Threefold Bursting Sun: the symbolic vocabulary of the Ripley Scroll'

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Session 3: Visual Signs

• Elena Lichmanova, 'Mirror Writing and the Art of Self-Reflection'
• Furqon Muhammad Faiz, Tori Nuariza Sutanto, 'Early Islamic Seals on Sumatra's West Coast: Inscriptions and Cultural Significance'
• Ilari Aalto, 'Tracing Brickmakers' Marks in Late Medieval Finland'

16:00-16:30 Break with refreshments

16:30-17:30 Keynote Address 1: Professor Sophie Page

17:30 Drinks Reception

18:30/19:00 Conference Dinner (optional)

TUESDAY, APRIL 9

10:00-11:30 Session 4: Objects & Collections

• Megan Gorlitz, 'Old English Riddles and Anglo-Saxon Reading Practices'
• Marc Lawson, 'Wielding the Word: The Symbolism of Book Satchels in Early Irish Christianity'
• Charlotte Wood, 'Signals of Death: Comb placement in cremations'

11:30-12:00 Break with refreshments

12:00-13:30 Session 5: Palaeography

• Sebastian Dows-Miller, 'Signs in (Manu)scripts: Towards a New Study of Scribal Abbreviation'
• Max Hello, 'Ornamenting and Writing: An aesthetic approach to Merovingian book writing (7th-8th centuries)'
• Corinne Clark, 'A Wild Dragon Appears: Difficult Significations in the Life of St. Margaret'

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Session 6: Codicology

• Elliot Vale, 'Missing the Point: Punctuating Prose/Poetry in CCCC 201'
• Jemima Bennet, 'Fragments in Fifteenth-Century Oxford Bookbinding'
• Rhiannon Warren, ''Þad er nu eydilagt’? AM 241 b I fol as a Case Study of Árni Magnússon’s Collection and Manipulation of Icelandic Latin Liturgical Manuscripts

16:00-16:30 Break with refreshments

16:30-17:30 Keynote Address 2: Dr Hannah Ryley

17:30 OMGC 2025 Theme Selection + Closing Remarks