The Wandering Mind: From Oxford to the Frontiers of Knowledge

Scholars from medieval Oxford travelled to the edges of the Christian world – the border with Islamic al-Andalus in Spain – in pursuit of scientific and philosophical learning in the 12^th and 13^th centuries. Here they encountered an exciting array of texts, including the works of Aristotle and the commentaries of Avicenna and Averroes, translated from Arabic into Latin and made available to western scholars, often for the first time. Join Daniel of Morley, a scholar who set out on a quest for knowledge in the 1160s, on the journey to the frontiers of knowledge, and back again.

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Dr Teresa Witcombe is an award-winning historian at the University of Oxford, where she works on the movement of people, texts, and ideas between the medieval Islamic world and the Latin West. She has published widely, including a recent book, ‘On the Edges of Christendom’. She received her PhD from the University of Exeter in 2019.