You are cordially invited to the exhibition on medieval scribes and their colophons. The exhibition is accompanied by the publication of the Czech collective monograph Za posledním řádkem: Kolofony ve středověkých rukopisech z českých zemí. When? 26 May – 5 July 2026, Tue–Fri, 10:00–16:00 Where? Gallery Klementinum, National Library (Národní knihovna), Mariánské náměstí 5, Prague […]
You are warmly invited to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series, to be held on Wednesday, 22 April 2026, at 5:30 pm at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. The lecture will be delivered by Alastair Minnis (Yale University) and is entitled: Latin to Vernacular: Late-Medieval Translations of the Commentary Tradition.
You are warmly invited to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series, to be held on Wednesday, 8 April 2026, at 5:30 pm at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. The lecture will be delivered by Eyal Poleg (Queen Mary University of London) and is entitled: Hidden in Plain Sight – New Technologies in […]
You are warmly invited to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series, to be held on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, at 5:30 pm at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. The lecture will be delivered by Jeremy Smith (University of Glasgow) and is entitled: Forging the Middle Ages: The Making and Remaking of Medieval […]
You are warmly invited to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series, to be held on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, at 5:30 pm at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. The lecture will be delivered by Elena Pierazzo (Université de Tours) and is entitled: Manuscript Culture in the Age of Print.
You are warmly invited to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series, to be held on Wednesday, 25 February 2026, at 5:30 pm at the Center for Medieval Studies in Prague. The lecture will be delivered by Cristina Dondi (University of Oxford) and is entitled: Tracking the Distribution, Use, and Survival of Early European Printed […]
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 […]
You are warmly invited to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series, to be held on Wednesday, 22 April 2026, at 5:30 pm at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. The lecture will be delivered by Alastair Minnis (Yale University) and is entitled: Latin to Vernacular: Late-Medieval Translations of the Commentary Tradition.
You are warmly invited to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series, to be held on Wednesday, 8 April 2026, at 5:30 pm at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. The lecture will be delivered by Eyal Poleg (Queen Mary University of London) and is entitled: Hidden in Plain Sight – New Technologies in […]
You are warmly invited to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series, to be held on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, at 5:30 pm at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. The lecture will be delivered by Jeremy Smith (University of Glasgow) and is entitled: Forging the Middle Ages: The Making and Remaking of Medieval […]
You are warmly invited to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series, to be held on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, at 5:30 pm at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. The lecture will be delivered by Elena Pierazzo (Université de Tours) and is entitled: Manuscript Culture in the Age of Print.
You are warmly invited to a lecture in the Medieval Matters series, to be held on Wednesday, 25 February 2026, at 5:30 pm at the Center for Medieval Studies in Prague. The lecture will be delivered by Cristina Dondi (University of Oxford) and is entitled: Tracking the Distribution, Use, and Survival of Early European Printed […]
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.
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. […]
