Below is a list of recent lectures and adresses given as part of the Life and learning programme. Click on the links below for transcriptions of recent presentations.
The Living and the Dead: Tomb Monument Commemoration in Hereford Cathedral
The 2011 Cantilupe Lecture
by Professor Nigel Saul, 7 October 2011 (download PDF)'A great encourager of learning': the life and times of Thomas Thornton, 1541-1629: A talk given at Hereford Cathedral to mark the 400th anniversary of the Hereford Cathedral Chained Library, 15 May 2011
by Joan Williams (download PDF)
King James Bible, 1611: 400th Anniversary Lectures at Hereford Cathedral
'With the former translations diligently compared and revised': the
literary ancestry of the King James Bible
by Timothy Symons (download PDF and pictures and examples)
The Making of the King James Bible: Hereford's Contribution
by John Tiller (download PDF)
On the Legacy of the King James Bible
by Derek Wilson (download PDF)
Lost in Translation? Thinking Greek Thoughts in English Words
by Eddie Arthur (download PDF)
Hyperlink to hear the lecture as delivered: http://www.kouya.net/upload/hereford.mp3
Cathedrals and Society: Hereford's Medieval Past
by David Lepine (download PDF)
Leeds International Medieval Congress
Congress Report by Sarah Arrowsmith (download PDF)
The Oldest Manuscript at Hereford Cathedral
by Richard Gameson (download PDF)
Commissioning and Consuming:
A Working Theological Library in Medieval Hereford
by Nick Baker (download PDF)
St Æthelberht of Hereford and the Cults of European Royal Saints
by David Rollason (download PDF)
Testing and attesting holiness:
the canonisation of Thomas Cantilupe and the making of a medieval saint by Professor Robert Swanson (download PDF)