An audience equipped with Austrian wine listens as Henrike Lähnemann begins the festivities around the opening of the exhibition “German in the World” at the Taylor Institution #AGS2025

Thx to Emma Sarcol from PCER (Public&Community Engagement w/Research) for featuring #OxfordMysteries @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social in the latest newsletter! www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi... Pic Noah's Flood performed w/ St Giles choir dir by Siân Grønlie @stannescollege.bsky.social

#nuntastic exhibition in Kloster Mariensee: three photographers exhibit their take on modern monastic life in the huge Baroque attic rooms of the convent. www.haz.de/lokales/umla...

Listen to behind-the-scenes impressions from our marvellous Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025, with thx to 'Beyond Shakespeare' for capturing the excitement and buzz of the day! audioboom.com/posts/874257...

Watch out for this book by Charles Webster which presents the sum of his extensive research into early modern intellectual networks across Europe as seen through the correspondence of Samuel Hartlib www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116.... Published by @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Happy birthday, @fromtga.bsky.social, celebrated by @spiegel.de as 'Winner of the Day' www.spiegel.de/geschichte/d...

Apply by 14 July to work with Andrew Dunning to make the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain project online accessible again - 6-month postdoc position @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social. Pls advertise, @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/medieval-lib...

Great postdoc position at the ‘Österreichischer Bibelübersetzer’ project in Augsburg, until end of 2027 www.bbaw.de/stellenangeb...

The full playlist for the #OxfordMysteries is now online in its full glory - many thanks to Ben Arthur's team who did a magnificent job & to Ashley Castelino @oxmedstud.bsky.social for editing metadata and subtitles! A highlight of the @stedmundhall.bsky.social calendar! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Today (20 June) at the Taylorian: Freebie book event! Come and grab a book pre-loved by some of the Russian and German lecturers

Today 1.30-3pm in the Main Hall of the Taylor Institution Library

Join us online from 16:45 TOMORROW (19 June) for the premiere of the 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle Film! Watch it live and comment along at youtu.be/R-bYdS8pLUY?...

Wadham College Oxford is seeking to appoint to a one-year part-time (three-hour) Stipendiary Lectureship in German, starting 1 September 2025. Apply by 1 July. Further details: www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/s...

Excitement rising! Just got from Ben Arthur the prefinal view of the whole @oxmedstud.bsky.social Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle ahead of the launch on Thursday medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/01/f...

Tickets are now available for Bach at the Salon: Toccatas 2 at St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford on Saturday 14th June 2025 at 2:30PM www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-bach-...

Free to use from Friday 13 June to the end of the month: the great Cambridge Dictionary of Hymnology (I had fun writing the article on Leisen) hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk

An initiative true to Nigel Palmer's legacy - donate for a travel fund to support graduate students doing archival work mediumaevum.org.uk/donate/palme... @mediumaevum.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social @bkhistoxford.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

Congrats to @nikokontovas.bsky.social Andrew Dunning, Péter Tóth & the other colleagues @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social for a superbly curated exhibition!

My first co-curated exhibit opens this evening @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social! TREASURED is a treasures exhibition that questions the very notion. It's also the first at the #Bodleian with around 50% non-Western material. Those in #Oxford can visit starting tomorrow, 6 June. And it's free!

Brilliant teaser for the film documentation of the Oxford Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025 by the talented film team around Ben Arthur, now available on @oxmedstud.bsky.social Thx @torchoxford.bsky.social & @stedmundhall.bsky.social for support! youtu.be/CCQJzg4ldd8

For @oxfordgerman.bsky.social !

In addition to the established essay competition, we have introduced a Discovery Section designed especially for those with no prior knowledge of German, making the competition more accessible than ever.

We are delighted to announce the launch of this year’s 'A German Classic', our annual essay competition for sixth-form students run by the Oxford German Network. This year, we invite students to engage with Rainer Maria Rilke's New Poems (Neue Gedichte). www.ogn.ox.ac.uk/files/2025_r...

I am giving free tours of Iffley Church today 2.30-4pm; there will be a few chocolate Ladybirds hiding in the churchyard in case children (or adults…) need an additional incentive beyond Norman architecture! St Mary the Virgin, OX4 4EG iffleychurch.org.uk

Tomorrow (Saturday): Recital 1.30pm in the Teddy Hall chapel. Do come - a fun programme, over in 30 mins! @stedmundhall.bsky.social www.seh.ox.ac.uk/events/music...

Here a recording of my introductory talk, 'Bach at Home', on the importance of family for the formation of Johann Sebastian Bach's music youtu.be/MiDTLkiiJkM

Yesterday's Toccata concert with Anhad Arora was so much fun! Tickets are now available for Bach at the Salon: Toccatas 2 at St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/oxf...

For some fun, listen to the 'Liederspiel' podcasts Anhad Arora and I did as lockdown project in 2020 liederspieloxford.medium.com

Tmrw, Sat 23 May 2025, 2.30pm! First concert in the 'Bach Toccatas' series w/ Anhad Arora. I'll be talking about the social, literary, & religious context for Bach's works. Talk one: Bach at Home www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-bach-...

📯 Netzwerke der Nonnen are a material object AND open access available! www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/netzwer...

#Totentanz #dansemacabre with Mai-Britt Wiechmann whose doctoral dissertation on Lübeck incunables included the #MiddleLowGerman inscription now on the East side of my house! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdrmMLEL/

Fab presentation this morning at the Weston Library Coffee Morning (Bodleian) on the difficult task to deciee which book are "true" duplicates and might be sold… youtu.be/0XyjfYH12GY

Birthday double whammy: yesterday, the first physical copies of the 'Netzwerke der Nonnen' dropped - appropriately Kloster Lüne was the first to get their hands on them; and the special issue #middleages of @spiegel.de GESCHICHTE was published archive.is/202505161352...

ha, danke - hatte ich noch gar nicht gesehen, dass das erschienen ist! bin gespannt, was ich da gesagt habe… @oxfordgerman.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social

Blogpost by Marisa Irawan about the workshop on 'Female Enlightenment' on 7/8 May 2025 @stedmundhall.bsky.social & @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social www.ziegler-edition.de/post/ziegler...

Only discovered today the full page article in the Cherwell edition of 1st week cherwell.org/2025/05/05/m... 📯 @oxmedstud.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social

Enjoyable lecture for the 150-year anniversary of the Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, including singing in Low German lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v...

Thx for coverage to the Oxford Mail! Title image featuring @oxfordgerman.bsky.social 2nd year Wilfred Lamont & DPhil student Timothy Powell @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2512116...

Actually the reading starts with drinks at 6pm! I managed to confuse myself further by also putting in the dress rehearsal time into the medieval calendar. So come after your 5pm commitments and enjoy a drink in the Old Library before heading down to the Crypt

The charming ridiculousness of Oxford/ @oxmedstud.bsky.social: there are five (!) events on Friday 5pm which I all would like to attend! medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/m... (full disclosure: I am organising one @stedmundhall.bsky.social, so am partly responsible for the #embarrassmentOfRiches)

#OxfordMysteries - glad that our Early New High German play worked on stage! @oxfordgerman.bsky.social @stedmundhall.bsky.social

Sabbatical cover for Joanna Neilly: one-year lectureship St Peter’s College, @ox.ac.uk, in association with Hertford College. Apply by Wednesday 21 May www.spc.ox.ac.uk/about/vacanc...

Term has officially sprung at Oxford! This Saturday, come along to the Medieval Mystery Plays at @stedmundhall.bsky.social - here are some details on the Crucifixion, performed by @lincoln.ox.ac.uk students.

Listen to Henk de Berg on Zale Mednick's podcast "Preconceived" shows.acast.com/preconceived...

Hoping for weather like this for the #OxfordMysteries! Rehearsal shot from Hans Sachs‘ Adam & Eve play @stedmundhall.bsky.social @oxmedstud.bsky.social @oxfordgerman.bsky.social

And here are the intrepid Crucifixioners at rehearsal today, with @hlaehnemann.bsky.social! @oxmedstud.bsky.social

For @richove.bsky.social @liber-ray.bsky.social - very much looking forward to the full set of lectures starting with 'Bibliodomesticity: Who served Victorian books?' Tuesday 29 April 2025, 5.15–6.15pm

The latest addition to the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social coffee morning playlist is the brilliant @ashleycastelino.bsky.social talking about dogs in medieval manuscripts! Check it out on the @oxmedstud.bsky.social youtube channel youtu.be/kiGFH9LTrGI

A post for up to two years as 'Lektor*in' (stipendiary lecturer in German language) @stjohnsox.bsky.social @queenscollegeox.bsky.social - contact Barry Murnane for more info; for the attention of @ags-gbi.bsky.social www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

Just released: the HistoryHit Apocalypse episode with @goingmedieval.bsky.social, @liber-ray.bsky.social, @lauraashe.bsky.social & a motley crew from @oxmedstud.bsky.social performing an extract from the Towneley Last Judgement play @stedmundhall.bsky.social. Here the outtake: youtu.be/RTM3Cys9E0I