Lyell Lectures

Lyell Lectures

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  • Some generalizations about the shape and geographical spread of Latin textual traditions
    Episode 4 of the Lyell lectures 2024 delivered by Professor Stephen Oakley. In this series of lectures, Professor Stephen Oakley, Kennedy Professor of Latin and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, examines the transmission of Latin texts. These five lectures will explore how works of different kinds–the military histories written by Julius Caesar, the poetry of Catullus, and the teachings of early Christians–were passed down over time. A special focus is on the media revolution from hand-written to printed books.
    56 min
  • What happens when incunables replace manuscripts?
    Episode 4 of the Lyell lectures 2024 delivered by Professor Stephen Oakley. In this series of lectures, Professor Stephen Oakley, Kennedy Professor of Latin and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, examines the transmission of Latin texts. These five lectures will explore how works of different kinds–the military histories written by Julius Caesar, the poetry of Catullus, and the teachings of early Christians–were passed down over time. A special focus is on the media revolution from hand-written to printed books.
    1 hr
  • Cross-fertilization and the limits of the genealogical method: the case of Catullus
    Episode 3 of the Lyell lectures 2024 delivered by Professor Stephen Oakley. In this series of lectures, Professor Stephen Oakley, Kennedy Professor of Latin and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, examines the transmission of Latin texts. These five lectures will explore how works of different kinds–the military histories written by Julius Caesar, the poetry of Catullus, and the teachings of early Christians–were passed down over time. A special focus is on the media revolution from hand-written to printed books.
    57 min
  • The transmission of the Corpus Cyprianum and Pontius’ Life of Cyprian
    Episode 2 of the Lyell lectures 2024 delivered by Professor Stephen Oakley. In this series of lectures, Professor Stephen Oakley, Kennedy Professor of Latin and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, examines the transmission of Latin texts. These five lectures will explore how works of different kinds–the military histories written by Julius Caesar, the poetry of Catullus, and the teachings of early Christians–were passed down over time. A special focus is on the media revolution from hand-written to printed books.
    57 min
  • The transmission of Julius Caesar’s Civil War
    Episode 1 of the Lyell lectures 2024 delivered by Professor Stephen Oakley. In this series of lectures, Professor Stephen Oakley, Kennedy Professor of Latin and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, examines the transmission of Latin texts. These five lectures will explore how works of different kinds–the military histories written by Julius Caesar, the poetry of Catullus, and the teachings of early Christians–were passed down over time. A special focus is on the media revolution from hand-written to printed books.
    1 hr 4 min
  • Shaping legacies
    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 scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts.
    Professor Ann M. Blair will focus on case studies including Erasmus, Martin Bucer, Adrien Turnèbe, and Petrus Ramus, among others to explore this recent research.
    56 min
  • Complicating attributions
    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 scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts.
    Professor Ann M. Blair will focus on case studies including Erasmus, Martin Bucer, Adrien Turnèbe, and Petrus Ramus, among others to explore this recent research.
    49 min
  • Mechanical and intellectual
    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 scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts.
    Professor Ann M. Blair will focus on case studies including Erasmus, Martin Bucer, Adrien Turnèbe, and Petrus Ramus, among others to explore this recent research.
    56 min
  • Invisible and visible
    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 scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts.
    Professor Ann M. Blair will focus on case studies including Erasmus, Martin Bucer, Adrien Turnèbe, and Petrus Ramus, among others to explore this recent research.
    52 min
  • Amanuenses in the longue durée
    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 scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts.
    Professor Ann M. Blair will focus on case studies including Erasmus, Martin Bucer, Adrien Turnèbe, and Petrus Ramus, among others to explore this recent research.
    56 min

About Lyell Lectures

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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.

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