Event Calendar
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Anne Lawrence – Mathers: Prediction, Prognostication – or Divination? The Medieval Calendar as a guide to the Future.
Anyone who listens to news broadcasts will be familiar with modern forms of forecasting and predicting. These range from the scientific, like weather forecasts, to the more contentious, like predictions […]
Arnold Hunt (University of Durham): The Forgotten Laudian? Richard Steward and the origins of Anglican high churchmanship
Richard Steward (1595-1651) played a key role in the promotion of Laudianism in the 1630s and the formation of Anglican royalism in the 1640s. During the Uxbridge negotiations in 1645, […]
Megan McNamee: Light and Labour in Late Medieval Concertina-Fold Almanacs
Online Event only Light and labour were linked by custom and law in the Middle Ages, when, for example, statutes dictated that agricultural workers were to leave their tasks while […]
Seb Falk: Moons, miracles, and magic: what’s in a medieval calendar?
Seb Falk will unpick the curious history of medieval calendars. From the mind-bending maths required to establish the precise length of the year and calculate the date of Easter, to […]
Concertina-Fold Books across Time, Space and Cultures Symposium
Accordion, screenfold, chain—various terms have been applied to books folded in a zig-zag or ‘concertina’ pattern. Seen now as novelties, concertina-fold books were once found worldwide. They were even the […]
Exhibition Curator’s Talk: Unfolding Time
Join us for a short curatorial introduction to our newest exhibition, 'Unfolding Time', after which the curator will be present for questions and discussion. Come and explore medieval concepts of […]
Anthony Milton (Uni of Sheffield): “British” and “European” texts and the Church of England 1560-1660: rethinking sources and categories
An Institute of Historical Research and Friends of Lambeth Palace Library seminar. It is no news that European divines sometimes had an important impact on English Protestantism. But in this […]
Church of England Record Society AGM and Lecture
Philip Williamson presents 'Royal prayers: Henry VIII to Charles III'. For five centuries, the Church of England has prayed for the sovereign and for members of the royal family. This […]
Lecture & Launch – Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library
Dr Joseph Mason will give a short paper to introduce the exhibition Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library. In particular, he will discuss a newly discovered piece of […]
Music and Reformation: A Symposium at Lambeth Palace Library
To accompany our upcoming exhibition ‘Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library’, Lambeth Palace Library will be hosting a symposium on the subject of ‘Music and Reformation’. The symposium […]
The Arundel Choirbook in Concert
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Arundel Choirbook (Lambeth Palace Library MS 1), in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library’, join us in […]
