Registration is free but compulsory; please email cosima.gillhammer@lmh.ox.ac.uk by the 15 September and mention any dietary requirements.
Organisers: Tristan Franklinos and Cosima Gillhammer
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Arrivals from 1415.
14:45–15:30 Tristan Franklinos (Oxford)
Exegesis in Abelard’s hymns for the Feast of the Ascension.
15:30–16:00 Tea & Coffee
16:00–16:45 Marie Zöckler (Munich)
Ave mundi creator – Nature, its creator, and the fusion of scholastic philosophy and scriptural exegesis in Latin hymns.
1645–1730 Juan Montejo (Munich)
The Flores Psalmorum of Gregory of Montesacro: exegesis through abbreviatio.
17:30 Reception
Friday, 26 September 2025
Tea & Coffee from 10:30.
11:00–11:45 Cillian O’Hogan (Toronto)
Martyrs as exegetes in Prudentius’ Peristephanon.
11:45–12:30 Katie Painter (Oxford)
Nature and scripture in the Liber Kathemerinon: Prudentius on the kaleidoscope of creation.
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:45 Danuta Shanzer (Vienna)
Voices and sources: revisiting Hilary, Hymn 2.
14:45–15:30 Simon Whedbee (Loyola)
Hymnus est laus Dei cum cantico: Teaching with and about hymns in the cathedral schools of twelfth-century Paris.
15:30–16:00 Tea & Coffee
16:00–16:45 Nicholas Richardson (Oxford)
mellifluis nostras musis qui impleuerat aures: Scripture and sweet music in the hymns of St Paulinus of Aquileia.
16:45–17:30 Christoph Uiting (Zurich)
Festa Christi – Notker’s sequence on Epiphany in a late medieval commentary.
This event is generously supported by the Faculty of Classics Board, the Craven Committee, the Institute of Classical Studies, and Oxford Medieval Studies (sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities [TORCH]).
