Lyell Lectures

Jun 01 2023 59 mins 122

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The Lyell readership in bibliography at Oxford University is endowed by a bequest from James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871-1948), a solicitor, book collector and bibliographer. Each year since 1952, a distinguished scholar has been elected to deliver the lectures, usually six in number, on any topic of bibliography, broadly conceived. J.P.R. Lyell lived in Oxford and (on his retirement) in Abingdon from 1927 until the end of his life. Even as a young man he was interested in collecting early printed books, and he made a study of early book illustration in Spain. In the 1930s he began collecting medieval manuscripts, eventually accumulating some 250 of these, of which one hundred were bequeathed to the Bodleian Library. A further series of some 65 manuscripts, mostly post-medieval, were bought by the Library from his executors. The first Lyell lectures, for the academic year 1952-3, were delivered by Neil R. Ker, university reader in palaeography and fellow of Magdalen College.

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Shaping legacies

Jun 01 2023 55 mins

Lecture 5 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series A recent focus on practices and working methods in the history of science and of scholarship has revealed a gap between the representation that scholars worked alone, and the reality that their work was frequently carried out with the help of others. This lecture series will focus on the role of amanuenses (literary assistants) in scholarl

Complicating attributions

Jun 01 2023 48 mins

Lecture 4 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series A recent focus on practices and working methods in the history of science and of scholarship has revealed a gap between the representation that scholars worked alone, and the reality that their work was frequently carried out with the help of others. This lecture series will focus on the role of amanuenses (literary assistants) in scholarl

Mechanical and intellectual

Jun 01 2023 55 mins

Lecture 3 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series A recent focus on practices and working methods in the history of science and of scholarship has revealed a gap between the representation that scholars worked alone, and the reality that their work was frequently carried out with the help of others. This lecture series will focus on the role of amanuenses (literary assistants) in scholarl

Invisible and visible

Jun 01 2023 51 mins

Lecture 2 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series A recent focus on practices and working methods in the history of science and of scholarship has revealed a gap between the representation that scholars worked alone, and the reality that their work was frequently carried out with the help of others. This lecture series will focus on the role of amanuenses (literary assistants) in scholarl

Amanuenses in the longue durée

Jun 01 2023 55 mins

Lecture 1 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series A recent focus on practices and working methods in the history of science and of scholarship has revealed a gap between the representation that scholars worked alone, and the reality that their work was frequently carried out with the help of others. This lecture series will focus on the role of amanuenses (literary assistants) in scholarl

Assimilation or change? Normans at Winchester

May 24 2022 55 mins

The fifth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge) From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900–1150

From Neumes in campo aperto to Neumes on Lines (at Christchurch, Canterbury)

May 16 2022 51 mins

The forth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge) From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900–1150

St Augustine’s and Christchurch, 950–1091

May 16 2022 48 mins

The third lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge) From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900–1150

‘L’ecriture Anglaise Dans Sa Perfection’

May 09 2022 80 mins

Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris delivers the 5th lecture in this years Lyell Lecture series

A Community of Scribes at Worcester

May 09 2022 45 mins

The second lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2022 series delivered by Professor Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge) From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900–1150