We cordially invite you to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series on Wednesday, December 10, at 5:30 p.m. at the Centre for Medieval Studies: Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (Galway University project). Three speakers will present on specific topics: Eva-Lotte Gebhardt (University of Vienna): Before the Press Was Only Print: Manuscript NewspapersAlena […]
You are invited to our methodological seminar on 10th and 11th December in Prague:
We cordially invite you to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series on Wednesday, November 12, at 5:30 p.m. at the Centre for Medieval Studies. Jürg Glauser (University of Zurich) will speak on the topic “The Simultaneity of Media: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Late Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe.”
Join us for the next lecture in the Medieval Matters series! Dávid Falvay and Ditta Szemere (ELTE Budapest):Female Scribes in Umbria and in Hungary around 1500: A Comparative Research 🗓 Wednesday, 15 October, 17:30📍 Centre for Medieval Studies, Praha, Jilská 1💻 Online access: Join via Microsoft Teams – Medieval Matters! You can find the detailed […]
The first week in September 2025, we hosted an international summer school dedicated to papyrology in Prague in collaboration with the National Library of the Czech Republic.
Medieval Scribes: Progress Presentation I successfully took place on 20 June 2025 at the Academic Conference Centre in Prague. This one-day workshop was part of the research project Innovation and Inertia: The End of Medieval Scribes, which explores why scribes continued their work long after the invention of print — and what that reveals about […]
You are cordially invited to Medieval Scribes: Progress Presentation I. This event is part of the research project Innovation and Inertia: The End of Medieval Scribes, which explores why scribes continued their work long after the advent of print, and what this tells us about human resistance to change in times of transformation. 🗓 20 […]
We would like to invite you to a lecture by Katharina H. Wendl’s from Freie Universität Berlin on how Medieval texts on Torah scrolls making inform contemporary Jewish scribal practice. Date and time: 2 April, 17:30 Place: Center for Medieval Studies (Praha 1, Jilská 1)
The packed programme on the East Coast of the United States included a series of lectures, roundtables, and workshops that strengthened and opened new opportunities for mutual cooperation. The faculty was represented by Prof Lucie Doležalová and Dr Karel Pacovský from the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies at CU FA, Martin Roček, a PhD student of Latin […]
THEEND project members will lead a workshop on inertia and entropy in the context of medieval manuscripts. The workshop will take place on October 7, 2025 in Kutná Hora.
We cordially invite you to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series on Wednesday, December 10, at 5:30 p.m. at the Centre for Medieval Studies: Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (Galway University project). Three speakers will present on specific topics: Eva-Lotte Gebhardt (University of Vienna): Before the Press Was Only Print: Manuscript NewspapersAlena […]
You are invited to our methodological seminar on 10th and 11th December in Prague:
We cordially invite you to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series on Wednesday, November 12, at 5:30 p.m. at the Centre for Medieval Studies. Jürg Glauser (University of Zurich) will speak on the topic “The Simultaneity of Media: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Late Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe.”
Join us for the next lecture in the Medieval Matters series! Dávid Falvay and Ditta Szemere (ELTE Budapest):Female Scribes in Umbria and in Hungary around 1500: A Comparative Research 🗓 Wednesday, 15 October, 17:30📍 Centre for Medieval Studies, Praha, Jilská 1💻 Online access: Join via Microsoft Teams – Medieval Matters! You can find the detailed […]
The first week in September 2025, we hosted an international summer school dedicated to papyrology in Prague in collaboration with the National Library of the Czech Republic.
Medieval Scribes: Progress Presentation I successfully took place on 20 June 2025 at the Academic Conference Centre in Prague. This one-day workshop was part of the research project Innovation and Inertia: The End of Medieval Scribes, which explores why scribes continued their work long after the invention of print — and what that reveals about […]
You are cordially invited to Medieval Scribes: Progress Presentation I. This event is part of the research project Innovation and Inertia: The End of Medieval Scribes, which explores why scribes continued their work long after the advent of print, and what this tells us about human resistance to change in times of transformation. 🗓 20 […]
We would like to invite you to a lecture by Katharina H. Wendl’s from Freie Universität Berlin on how Medieval texts on Torah scrolls making inform contemporary Jewish scribal practice. Date and time: 2 April, 17:30 Place: Center for Medieval Studies (Praha 1, Jilská 1)
We are happy to invite you to a lecture pronounced by Alena Minko: „Connecting medieval recipes: frumenty and its transformation“ Date and time: November 27, 16:00–17:30 Place: Center for Medieval Studies (Praha 1, Jilská 1)
Thanks to the strategic partnership of the University of St Andrews and Charles University, we are happy to welcome two colleagues – Margaret Connolly and Michael Brown. Their lectures are scheduled as follows: There will be also an opportunity to hear two more lectures, by Helen Leslie Jacobsen (from University of Bergen) and Fiona Somerset […]
The first week in September 2025, we hosted an international summer school dedicated to papyrology in Prague in collaboration with the National Library of the Czech Republic.
We would like to invite you to a lecture by Katharina H. Wendl’s from Freie Universität Berlin on how Medieval texts on Torah scrolls making inform contemporary Jewish scribal practice. Date and time: 2 April, 17:30 Place: Center for Medieval Studies (Praha 1, Jilská 1)
ANTIDOTE 2025 is a two-stage training course on the digital processing of medieval texts, funded by the ERASMUS+ program. The course includes basic training in Austria (March 3–7, 2025) and advanced training in Iceland (June 23–27, 2025), focusing on working with XML, OCR, data analysis, and visualization. The course is worth 5 ECTS and is […]
Thanks to the strategic partnership of the University of St Andrews and Charles University, we are happy to welcome two colleagues – Margaret Connolly and Michael Brown. Their lectures are scheduled as follows: There will be also an opportunity to hear two more lectures, by Helen Leslie Jacobsen (from University of Bergen) and Fiona Somerset […]
Thirteen medievalists from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, participated in an international conference held from June 19–23, 2023, in cooperation between Charles University and the University of Bergen as part of the Bilateral Initiatives project of the EEA and Norway Grants. The conference focused on the use of modern technologies and digital tools in […]
The oldest university in Scotland welcomed 10 students and 8 lecturers from the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University to a workshop titled „Medieval Explorations,“ which took place from May 23–25, 2023. The event brought together medievalists from various fields to share their research, experiences, and inspire each other for future projects. […]
