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Byzantine Icon of 'The Raising of Lazarus' (Tempera on panel, 14th/15th century). © Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Arabic Documents of Norman Sicily
The Arabic Documents of Norman Sicily research project focuses on a corpus of documents from Sicily which contain Arabic. They offer a key insight into the history of Norman Sicily and its Muslim population, the development Islamic administration and law, and the linguistic evolution of Arabic and the Sicilian dialect.
IMPAcT: 13th to 16th Century Islamic Intellectual History
IMPAcT focuses on 13th to 16th century Islamic Philosophy and Theology. Its aim is to bridge the gap between the much better studied classical and modern periods of Islamic intellectual history, and to enable scholars to study the intellectual and political history in a holistic manner. It aims to encourage international collaboration throughout Europe, the Middle East and North America.
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
From its beginnings in 1998, the purpose of the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) was to obtain and archive digital images of European sources of medieval polyphonic music, captured directly from the original document. The purposes were (1) conservation and protection against loss, especially of vulnerable fragments, and (2) to enable libraries to supply the best possible quality of images to scholars. The project started as a collaboration between scholars at the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, and is now based in Oxford in collaboration with the University Music Faculty and the Bodleian Library. DIAMM has created an electronic archive of more than 14,000 images, to assure their permanent preservation, and is able to present a significant number of them through this website to facilitate detailed study of this music and its sources.
Voices in Medieval French Narrative
The project brings together literary and linguistics specialists from the UK, France, and Spain to share methodologies in an interdisciplinary interrogation of the idea and manifestations of 'voice' in French literary texts from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. The topic of 'voice' underpins many existing analyses of medieval texts, but is rarely studied as a subject in its own right, and especially not in relation to narrative, as distinct from lyric, works. Funded by a British Academy Small Grant over a period of 20 months, the group will generate a collective book and a website, and aims ultimately to expand into a larger network to develop further its exchanges.
The Alfredian Boethius Project
The Alfredian Boethius Project began in 2002, and its primary aim is to enhance understanding of the Anglo-Saxon adaptation and appropriation of late Roman culture, especially in the circle of King Alfred. The project aims over the next five years to undertake intensive research into the history and background of the Anglo-Saxon interest in Boethius, and particularly the Anglo-Saxon versions of his De Consolatione Philosophiae, or 'On the Consolation of Philosophy'.
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Authors in Anglo-Saxon England is intended to identify all written sources which were incorporated, quoted, translated or adapted anywhere in English or Latin texts which were written in Anglo-Saxon England (i.e. England to 1066), or by Anglo-Saxons in other countries.
A corpus of British medieval library catalogues
The project deals with fundamental evidence for the transmission of culture. Our work provides a guide to British library records from the earliest, a short list from the tenth century, down to the mid sixteenth century. Our definition of ‘medieval’ is therefore wide enough to include many works of Renaissance humanism, and through the whole period libraries had very many copies of Classical and Patristic texts.
Anglo-Norman Royal Acta
Compiling a database in MS-Access of all the known acta of William I, William II, Henry I, and Stephen (including those of queens and regents) and an edition of the writs and charters of Henry I.
The Centre for the Study of the Cantigas de Santa Maria
Created in 2005, the Centre currently hosts two linked research projects: the Cantigas de Santa Maria database and the new Cantigas de Santa Maria critical edition. The database, which is under continual development, is designed to give access to a vast range of information relevant to the processes of collection, composition and compilation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria. It will provide the critical material for a new edition of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, which will be published both in printed and electronic form.
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
Based entirely on original research, the DMLBS is the most comprehensive dictionary of Medieval Latin to have been produced and the first ever to focus on British Medieval Latin.