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Andrei Crișan on Cambridge, CCC MS 201 at Conference in Bergamo

The Old English Apollonius of Tyre — preserved uniquely in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS201 — has increasingly been recognized as a text of remarkable cultural and literary significance. A fragmentary late antique romance, reshaped within the monastic context of pre-Conquest England, it bridges the realms of narrative entertainment, Christian moral instruction, and ideological reflections…

Adrian Papahagi lectures in Rome

On 23-27 March, CODEX director, Adrian Papahagi, taught a codicology course in Rome. The course is a part of the European Diploma of Mediaeval Studies (DEEM) programme, offered since 1991 by the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales (FIDEM), of which CODEX is a member. The theoretical part of the course was taught at the…

Adrian Papahagi on the Nowell Codex at the Sorbonne

Prof. Adrian Papahagi, director of CODEX, gave a paper on The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle and Beowulf, the two most representative texts of the Nowell Codex (the second part of London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius MS A. xv, s. X/XI) at a conference entitled Beowulf and Circulations. The conference, organised by the Centre d’Études…

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