Ciclo de conferencias "Lyell Lectures 2026" en la Universidad de Oxford

Mercedes García-Arenal (ILC-CSIC) será la encargada de impartir las Lyell Lectures 2026 en la Universidad de Oxford. Las conferencias, tituladas Muslim Books in Christian Hands: From Iberian Moriscos to Early Modern Europe podrán seguirse tanto presencialmente como en línea previa inscripción gratuita. 

Fechas y horario de las conferencias

28 abril 2026, 17:15–18:30
30 abril 2026, 17:15–18:30
5 mayo 2026, 17:15–18:30
7 mayo 2026, 17:15–18:30
11 mayo 2026, 17:15–18:30

Inscripción abierta a partir del 30 de enero de 2026. 

Enlace para inscripción y más información: The Lyell Lectures 2026 | Visit the Bodleian Libraries

Tras la serie, las grabaciones estarán disponibles públicamente en la página oficial de las Lyell Lectures Lyell Lectures series page.

These lectures examine the books produced by Muslim minorities in Christian Iberia from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the seventeenth century. Even after the forcible conversion of Muslims at the beginning of the sixteenth century, these minorities continued to use, copy and clandestinely preserve Muslim books. Manuscripts were bought and taken outside Spain, collected and read by groups from Italian Humanists to Early Orientalist in Northern Europe.

This lecture series will analyse the itineraries of some of these Muslim Iberian manuscripts through libraries and centres of knowledge, as well as how they were used and interpreted outside their Iberian context. These phenomena include the personal contacts and collaboration between expelled Iberian Muslims and European Christian scholars, and raise the question of how Morisco literature affected Early Modern understanding of Islam.

Following the series, recordings of the lectures will be available on the Lyell Lectures series page.

Read more and register here: The Lyell Lectures 2026 | Visit the Bodleian Libraries