This new student-run podcast brings you weekly doses of the medieval world and features scholars who share their research and serve as episode “experts.” We hope to make Medieval Studies more accessible to students and anyone else who wants to know more about the Middle Ages.
Author Archives: Roisin Astell
PhD Funding: PhD Fellowship History of the Book, University of Turin, deadline 26 June 2020
special fellowship is being given to a student holding a university degree from outside Italy who is willing to pursue a PhD program in History of the Book conceived as part of a research program on Legal Texts and/or Law books produced between Medieval and Early Modern age.
Job: Teaching Associate in the History of England Before the Norman Conquest (Fixed Term), University of Cambridge, deadline 21 July 2020
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic wishes to appoint a Teaching Associate in the History of England Before the Norman Conquest from 1 September 2020.
CFP: Gender and Death in the late middle ages and early modernity, Renaissance Society of America 67th Annual Meeting, deadline 1 August 2020
This is a session for the Renaissance Society of America 67th Annual Meeting in Dublin, Ireland on 7–10 April 2021.
Seminars: Online talks and lectures from The Churches Conservation Trust, every Thursday throughout June and July 2020
The Churches Conservation Trust’s lectures are all free to get involved with and we Livestream them via our Facebook page, this allows you to really engage with the talk and to submit your questions live. These lectures are recorded and will be available to watch afterward.
New Publication: Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800, by Jonathan M. Bloom
An authoritative survey situating some of the Western world’s most renowned buildings within a millennium of Islamic history.Some of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the Mosque of Córdoba, the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, the Giralda tower in Seville, and the Alhambra Palace in Granada, belong to the WesternContinue reading “New Publication: Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800, by Jonathan M. Bloom”
Fellowships: Paris x Rome Fellowship, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte and the German Center for Art History – Institute of the Max Weber Foundation (DFK Paris), deadline 15 July 2020
The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte and the German Center for Art History – Institute of the Max Weber Foundation (DFK Paris) annually offer six-month research grants, allowing fellows to spend three months in each of the archives and/or libraries of Rome and Paris, exchange ideas with the institutes’ researchers, and investigate transnational, art-historical perspectives in France and Italy.
CFP: ‘Lexicographic Studies of Arts’ Session at The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2021, deadline July 15 2020
This panel aims to bring together coordinators of digital projects – completed or in progress – around the lexicon and the scientific edition of texts of artistic or technical literature, with researchers who have adopted this terminological approach to analyze in an innovative way well known or unpublished texts, related to the production, the practiceContinue reading “CFP: ‘Lexicographic Studies of Arts’ Session at The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2021, deadline July 15 2020”
Research Workshops: Venice Virtual Summer Camp on Digital and Public Humanities, 6-10 July 2020
Venice Virtual Summer Camp on Digital and Public Humanities, Online, July 6 – 10, 2020 It was with great disappointment that we had to cancel the first Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities due to the coronavirus emergency. All the more, we are now happy to announce the first Venice Virtual Summer Camp on DigitalContinue reading “Research Workshops: Venice Virtual Summer Camp on Digital and Public Humanities, 6-10 July 2020”
Job: Digital Humanities Scientist, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome is a leading center for research in the history of art. As part of its recent expansion into digital and computational research in the humanities, it is looking to recruit a: Digital Humanities Scientist The full-time post will be offered for an initialContinue reading “Job: Digital Humanities Scientist, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome”
Medieval Art Research 