Ordinary Encounters with Medieval Manuscripts: Practical Books of Pastoral Care – Parker Library Exhibition, Corpus Christi College

Timothy Glover has curated an exhibition of medieval manuscripts and early modern books at the Parker Library. This exhibition explores the practical kinds of books priests used to educate ordinary people, including manuscripts that teach through diagrams, flowcharts, unusual page layouts, and pictures. Tours take place on Tuesday afternoons in July (see here for availability), and […]

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Dr May Hawas publishes ‘Teaching Politically: Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy’, Fordham University Press, July 2025

Co-edited with Professor Bruce Robbins, Teaching Politically (Fordham University Press) brings together a global group of academics, activists, public intellectuals, poets, and novelists to examine the way politics manifest pedagogically, and how a commitment to educating manifests politically, in and beyond the classroom. At the heart of the discussion is how political and professional paradigms […]

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2025 Derek Brewer Prize Awarded to François·e Charmaille

The journal Arthurian Literature awards the Derek Brewer Prize for a scholarly paper on an Arthurian topic. This year’s prize has been awarded to Dr François·e Charmaille for their essay “Transgender Grammar in the Tale of Grisandole.” The essay will be published in the 2026 issue of Arthurian Literature.

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Dr John Colley’s ‘The Coniuracion of Lucius Sergius Catelina: An Early Tudor Translation of Sallust’s “Bellum Catilinae”’ (Early English Text Society/Oxford University Press) scheduled for publication in June 2025

The book is a critical edition of the first ever translation of a Roman history into English, from a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library, and is printed here for the first time. Link to further information about the book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-coniuracion-of-lucius-sergius-catelina-9780198976387?cc=gb&lang=en& Link to further information about the Early English Text Society: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~eets/membership.html  

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