E. A. Lowe Lectures
The Triennial E. A. Lowe Lectures are an ongoing series of lectures held at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, in memory of the noted palaeographer E. A. Lowe who was an Honorary Fellow of the College from 1954 until his death in 1969. They are delivered by prominent palaeographers, with each scholar giving a trio of lectures on a topic within the field. Oxford University Press sometimes publishes revised versions of the lectures. Lecturers have included N. G. Wilson, A. C. de la Mare, Anthony Grafton, and Michael Lapidge.
Lectures
- 2023 — Niels Gaul: Manuscripts of Character: Codex, Ethos, and Authority in Byzantium and Beyond
- * Lecture 1 : “Codex” – explored the phenomenon of Byzantine literati curating their own writings in codex format and possible ancient and patristic models; with glances at similar practices in other medieval manuscript cultures
- * Lecture 2 : “Ethos” – examined the ways in which such codices were thought to display the author's character, and what the concept entailed in this context
- * Lecture 3 : “Authority” – related expressions of authorial ethos to matters of mise-en-page, with particular attention to marginal spaces
- 2020 — Judith Schlanger: The Hebrew-Latin Manuscripts of the Library of Corpus Christi College
- * Lecture 1 : “Two nations in their mother's womb” – Hebrew-Latin manuscripts, their materiality and their purpose
- * Lecture 2 : “Take the garment of a Jew” – bilingual manuscripts, their glosses and their Jewish background
- * Lecture 3 : From “superscriptio Lincolniensis” to Prior Gregory – the difficult question of manuscripts’ provenance
- 2017 — Rodney Thomson: The Fox and the Bees: the First Century of the Library of Corpus Christi College
- * Lecture 1 : The Founder as Shaping Force: Richard Fox and his Books
- * Lecture 2 : The First President as Fox's Instrument: John Claymond’s Donations
- * Lecture 3 : The Library They Produced
- 2014 — Erik Kwakkel: The Birth of Gothic Script
- * Lecture 1 : The Evolution from Caroline Minuscule to Gothic Textualis
- * Lecture 2 : Regional Variety
- * Lecture 3 : Adopting a New Script
- 2011 — David Ganz: Latin Manuscript Books Prior to the Ninth Century: Ways of Using Codices Latini Antiquiores
- * Lecture 1 : Evaluating the Evidence
- * Lecture 2 : Scribes and their Patrons
- * Lecture 3 : Half-Uncial Scripts
- 2008 — Susan Rankin: Impressed on the Memory: Musical Sounds and Notations in the Ninth Century
- * Lecture 1 : Case Study One: The Abbey of St Gall
- * Lecture 2 : Case Study Two: The Cathedral of Laon
- * Lecture 3 : Musical Notation as a Carolingian Phenomenon
- 2005 — Virginia Brown: Beneventan Script and the Culture of Medieval Southern Italy
- * Lecture 1 : E.A. Lowe and the Making of The Beneventan Script
- * Lecture 2 : In the Shadow of Montecassino: Beneventan Writing Centres in the Abruzzi
- * Lecture 3 : Across the Adriatic: Beneventan Scriptoria in Dalmatia
- 2002 — Michael Lapidge: The Anglo-Saxon Library
- * Lecture 1 : Vanished Libraries
- * Lecture 2 : Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries: The Evidence of Manuscripts
- * Lecture 3 : Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries: The Evidence of Citations
- 1999 — Michael Reeve: Manuscripts and Method: The Transmission of Vegetius
- * Lecture 1 : A Proposal about Modestus
- * Lecture 2 : A Man on a Horse
- * Lecture 3 : R.
- 1996 — Anthony Grafton: Ancient History in Early Modern Europe
- * Lecture 1 : The Reading and Teaching of the Ancient Historians
- * Lecture 2 : The Antiquarians and the Reconstruction of Ancient Societies
- * Lecture 3 : The Rediscovery of Barbarian Texts and Civilisations