Event Calendar
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Lecture
Charlie Rozier (UEA): Depicting Historical time in Anglo-Norman Manuscripts
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThis talk will attempt to answer a single, fundamental question: how does a medieval scribe draw time? Specifically, it aims to consider how decisions regarding the placement of historical text […]
Andrew Foster (University of Kent & Lincoln College, Oxford): ‘The Restoration and Revival of Chichester Cathedral Library, 1670-1735’
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonFor the redoubtable Dr Mary Hobbs, the return of Bishop Henry King’s Library marked the rebirth of Chichester Cathedral Library post 1671, yet close analysis of The Old Catalogue before 1735 reveals […]
Helen Smith (University of York): Voices in Ink: Early Modern Women and Print
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonProfessor Helen Smith’s book, Grossly Material Things, and edited collection, Renaissance Paratexts, have shaped debates about the presence of women as actors and agents in the literary marketplace, highlighting women’s […]
Julia King: Remember the Scrybeler: Syon Abbey’s Books at Lambeth Palace Library
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonSyon Abbey was England’s first and only Birgittine abbey, founded by Henry V in 1415. By the time of the Dissolution, it had become one of the richest monastic houses […]
Curator’s Forum: Julia King (Lambeth Palace Library) and Eleanor Jackson (British Library)
Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Road, LondonThe lead curators on the exhibitions ‘Her Booke’: Early Modern Women and their Books (Lambeth Palace Library) and ‘Medieval Women: in their Own Words’ will come together for a Q&A […]
