Online Lecture
‘The hooly blisful martir for to seke’: Manuscripts with Chaucer’s pilgrims
Dr. Allison Ray and Dr. Andrew Dunning
Monday 25 March 2024, 4.30–5.30pm GMT/12:30-1:30PM ET
Free, booking required.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales tell the story of pilgrims 'from every shires ende / Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende’. Experience these journeys, both real and imagined, through discussion and sharing of medieval manuscripts from the Bodleian collection live under the visualiser.
Dr Alison Ray, archivist at St Peter’s College, and Dr Andrew Dunning, RW Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, will explore the new iconography that developed after Thomas Becket’s murder, the impact of his death on Oxford’s religious houses and how Canterbury became a significant pilgrimage destination.
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