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Reformation Colouring Book
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Find out more »Early Modern German Culture Seminar
Open to University Card Holders only. Colin Matthews Room, History Faculty Christiane Andersson (Bucknell) ‘Censorship of Art in the Reformation in Germany’
Find out more »Ad nos: Liszt, Meyerbeer, and the quest for New Jerusalem
Exeter College Chapel William Whitehead: Organ Andrew Allen: Lecture
Find out more »Early Modern German Culture Seminar
Craig Harline (Brigham Young) ‘A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation’, followed by a presentation of Reformation pamphlets held by the Taylor Library As part of the ongoing debate about the unfolding of the German Reformation 500 years ago, Craig Harline (Brigham Young University) gave a talk about the challenges to write history for a popular audience at the Early Modern German Culture seminar at…
Find out more »Early Modern German Culture Seminar
Open to University Card Holders only. Gerry Martin Room, History Faculty Kerstin Weiand (Marburg) ‘Hessen-Kassel and the Peace of Westphalia (title tbc)’
Find out more »Early Modern German Culture Seminar
Open to University card holders only. Somerville College, Park Building, room 5 Sarah-Maria Schober (Basel and Oxford) ‘Disgusting Objects in Early Modernity’
Find out more »Oxford Bach Soloists perform…
The Oxford Bach Soloists plan a complete recording of the four Reformation Cantatas on the Sunday ‘Laetare’ (4th in Lent) with congregational participation. Reserve the date!”
Find out more »Sermon von Ablass und Gnade – Book Launch!
Book the date! The next in the series of Treasures of the Taylorian: Reformation Pamphlets, the Sermon von Ablass und Gnade, will be launched on April 19th 2018 in Room 2 of the Taylor Institution. From 4pm printing, refreshments and exhibition of Taylorian pamphlets. From 5pm the event proper will start, with papers on the Sermon, its theology and the process of translating it, followed by a relay reading of the sermon itself, with accompanying English translation. Digitised versions of…
Find out more »Letting Go of the Letters: The Impact of Luther’s Bible Translation in Germany and Beyond
Title page of the last authorized edition of the full Bible in Luther's translation (Wittenberg 1545) Alongside our inaugural conference "Found in Translation: Interpreting, Reworking, and Reinventing Texts" on 19th October, Greene's Institute will be hosting our first public event: a special interactive keynote with Professor Henrike Lähnemann (University of Oxford): The German Reformation would have not been possible without Luther’s translation of the Bible. The impact both the actual translation and the literature surrounding it…
Find out more »Concert and Talk “Help My Unbelief”
Help My Unbelief New College Chapel, OX1 3BN Join Professor Henrike Lähnemann for an exclusive pre-concert talk before Oxford Bach Soloists' concert, Help My Unbelief, on Sunday 3 November at 2pm in New College Chapel. "O großes Hochzeitsfest! Medieval Mysticism and Baroque Rhetoric in Cantata BWV 162" When Bach chose the text for BWV 162 (Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe), he picked a brand-new publication by the Weimar court composer Salomon Franck. The short talk will…
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