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The Latin Hymn as Scriptural Exegesis – from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Thursday 25th - Friday 26th September 2025
Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU

Registration is free but compulsory; please email cosima.gillhammer[at]lmh.ox.ac.uk by the 15 September and mention any dietary requirements.

Organisers: Tristan Franklinos and Cosima Gillhammer

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Arrivals from 1330.

1400–1445         Simon Whedbee (Loyola)
Hymnus est laus Dei cum cantico: Teaching with and about hymns in the cathedral schools of twelfth-century Paris.

1445–1530         Tristan Franklinos (Oxford)
Exegesis in Abelard’s hymns for the Feast of the Ascension.

1530–1600         Tea & Coffee

1600–1645         Marie Zöckler (LMU Munich)
Ave mundi creator – Nature, its creator, and the fusion of scholastic philosophy and scriptural exegesis in Latin hymns.

1645–1730         Juan Montejo (LMU Munich)
The Flores Psalmorum of Gregory of Montesacro: exegesis through abbreviatio.

1730                 Reception


Friday, 26 September 2025

1015–1100         Cillian O’Hogan (Toronto)
Martyrs as exegetes in Prudentius’ Peristephanon.

1100–1145         Katie Painter (Oxford)
Nature and scripture in the Liber Kathemerinon: Prudentius on the kaleidoscope of creation.

1145–1230         Joshua Caminiti (Oxford)
Singing alone: the private hymns of Marius Victorinus.

1230–1400         Lunch

1400–1445         Danuta Shanzer (Vienna)
Voices and sources: revisiting Hilary, Hymn 2.

1445–1530         Cosima Clara Gillhammer (Oxford)
Lux vera gentis Anglice: Latin hymns in Anglo-Saxon England

1530–1600         Tea & Coffee

1600–1645         Nicholas Richardson (Oxford)
mellifluis nostras musis qui impleuerat aures: Scripture and sweet music in the hymns of St Paulinus of Aquileia.

1645–1730         Christoph Uiting (Zurich)
Festa Christi – Notker’s sequence on Epiphany in a late medieval commentary.

This event is generously supported by the Faculty of Classics Board, the Craven Committee, the Institute of Classical Studies, and Oxford Medieval Studies (sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities [TORCH]).

Source : University of Oxford