Professor John Barton
The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion
Date: Monday, 28 March
Time: 2pm (GMT)
Location: Bodleian – Divinity School
Description (from website):
Bible expert Professor John Barton introduces a new collection of writings from Christian, Jewish and secular scholars on the Old Testament.
The writings discuss major themes in the Bible including human nature, covenant, creation, ethics, ritual and purity, sacred space, and monotheism. They cover every major genre of book in the Old Testament and set them in their historical and cultural context.
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Professor Peter Davidson
The Lighted Window: Evening Walks Remembered
Date: Tuesday, 29 March
Time: 6pm (GMT)
Location: Weston Lecture Theatre
Description (from website):
Cultural historian Peter Davidson looks at the theme of the lighted window in literature, art and place, and says it has inspired an extraordinary variety of moods and ideas from the romantic period to the modern day.
Davidson’s cultural journey takes him from early romantic painting to modern fiction and from the low countries to Japan. It includes lighted windows in the works of among others Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold, Proust, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle, Kenneth Grahame, James Whistler, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Linden Frederick and Samuel Palmer. Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, and desire are some of the themes Davidson finds evoked by the motif of the lighted window in literature and art.
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Professor Jane Stevenson
The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino
Date: Friday, 1 April
Time: 4pm (GMT)
Location: Oxford Martin School, Seminar Room
Description (from website):
Researcher Professor Jane Stevenson tells the story of Federico da Montefeltro, the man who created the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino.
Urbino is a hilltop town on the eastern side of Italy’s Apennines. Stevenson explains how it grew into the shining capital of a 15th-century duchy. The one-eyed mercenary soldier Federico da Montefeltro was lord of Urbino between 1444 and 1482. Stevenson explains how he assembled a court regarded by many as representing a high point of Renaissance culture and how he built a fine palace overlooking the city. She looks at patronage, politics and humanism in 15th-century Italy, the demanding lifestyle of a mercenary captain, and the prominent political and cultural roles played by their wives.
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