This event consists of two chaired sessions, each with two academics speaking on an aspect of Welsh manuscripts, print and performance.

 

11AM - 12:30PM GMT: Morning session chaired by Professor David Willis (Chair of Celtic, University of Oxford)

Saving History: Sir John Prise’s Manuscripts at Jesus College

Dr Andrew Dunning (Supernumerary Fellow in Book History, Jesus College, and R.W. Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, Bodleian Library)

Andrew Dunning is the Supernumerary Fellow in Book History at Jesus College, and R.W. Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library. His research interests include the examination of manuscript evidence for collaboration between textual communities in medieval Europe, as viewed through book production, performance, and ownership, and the digital editing and reconstruction of primary sources.

 

'An abiding monument ... for the British': the Bible in Welsh

Dr Alexandra Gajda (John Walsh Fellow and Associate Professor of History, Jesus College)

Alexandra Gajda is the John Walsh Fellow and Associate Professor of History at Jesus College. Her work focuses on the political, religious and intellectual life of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, with her current research centred on the relationship between the religious and constitutional history of the Reformation period. Alexandra is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

 

2:00 - 3:30PM GMT: Afternoon session chaired by Professor Dirk Van Hulle (Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History, University of Oxford)


King Arthur Tudor: Adapting and Co-Opting Geoffrey of Monmouth in Wales and England

Jenyth Evans (2015, Classics)

Jenyth Evans is currently studying for her DPhil in English at St Edmund Hall, having completed her BA and MSt at Jesus College. Her research looks at pseudo-histories in Medieval Ireland and Wales, and how their cultural authority was adapted, co-opted, and transformed into the Early Modern period. Her focus is specifically on Geoffrey of Monmouth's De Gestis Britonum ('On the Deeds of the Britons') and the Irish Lebor Gabála Érenn ('The Book of the Takings of Ireland'). She is supervised by Dr Mark Williams.

 

Performing Geoffrey's King Arthur for Queen Elizabeth I

Felicity Brown (2018, English)

Felicity Brown is in the third year of her DPhil in English at Jesus College. Her research is on the adaptation and reception of Arthurian romance in Early Modern drama, and she is supervised by Professor Laura Ashe and Professor Paulina Kewes.

Date: Saturday 27 March 2021

Time: 11AM - 12:30PM and 2:00 - 3:30PM GMT

Location: Zoom. Joining instructions will be sent to registered attendees following the registration deadline on Thursday 25 March.

Tickets: Available for students, staff, alumni and friends of Jesus College; free of charge.

If multiple alumni are watching from the same location, only one place needs to be reserved.

Registration has now closed, please contact the Events team on events@jesus.ox.ac.uk to enquire if any places remain.