The first lecture in the Dorothy Whitelock Lecture Series will take place on 4 December 2024 at 5pm at the English Faculty (St Cross Building).
Professor Gale Owen-Crocker will speak on ‘Social History and False Friends: From Anglo-Saxon Wills to the Bayeux Tapestry via Material Culture’
The event is free to attend but registration is required. Book your ticket via Eventbrite. For those unable to attend in person, a live stream will be available. To view the live stream, please make sure to secure your ‘ticket’ via the Eventbrite page, and then please contact Francis Leneghan for further details.
The lectures in this series honour Prof. Dorothy Whitelock’s remarkable contributions to medieval studies and to improving the status of female scholars at Oxford and beyond.
Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982) was a brilliant interdisciplinary scholar whose pioneering work combined literary, philological, historical and archaeological study. Her editions of Anglo-Saxon Wills (1930), The Peterborough Manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1954), Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (1939) and the monumental English Historical Documents: Volume 1 c. 500–1042 (1955) remain standard reference works. These books, together with her monographs The Beginnings of English Society (1941) and The Audience of ‘Beowulf’ (1951), and dozens of further publications, had a transformative effect on the study of early medieval English culture.
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For further details please contact francis.leneghan@ell.ox.ac.uk