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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Jun 13

This past Monday, part of our #komldsp students had a workshop on vernacular manuscripts at @lampallib.bsky.social with Prof. @etreharne.bsky.social (Stanford University).

This programme is possible because of @leverhulme.ac.uk #leverhulme #manuscripts #workshop

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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · May 29

All that glitters...this wonderful description of Tudor jewels can be found in a book of expenses of Princess Mary💎

Learn to read Early Modern handwriting in our 2-week online course (16-27 June)

Apply here: imemsdurhamlearn.com/early-modern...

@britishlibrary.bsky.social Royal MS 17 B XXVIII

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · May 29

The involvement of #Armenian women in manuscript production is visible in decorated margins & closing colophons—where they appear as commissioners, sponsors, scribes, illuminators, commemorators, intercessors, teachers, & witnesses.

Dr. Ani Shahinian shares some examples: hmml.org/stories/seri...

Veiled in Ink: Armenian Women in Manuscripts

“When we think of medieval manuscripts in general, we may imagine male monastic scribes...”

hmml.org

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · May 29

There's still time to join the London Palaeography Seminar's final meeting of this academic year here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/corpu...
Machine Learning, Scribal Profiling and the Dating and Localisation of Manuscripts Containing Old English, w/ @markfaulkner24.bsky.social & @elimagnanti.bsky.social

Corpus Palaeography: Machine Learning, Scribal Profiling and the Dating and Localisation of Manuscripts Containing Old English, c. 800–1200

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · May 20

Don't forget there's still time to join this! #palaeography #london #seminar #medieval

Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · May 7

Next London Palaeography Seminar: Changing the Script: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 10, Scribal Stints and the Question of Norms in Early 10th Century Manuscripts, 21 May 2025 (online and in person) with Sharon Rowley (Christopher Newport University, VA) ies.sas.ac.uk/events/chang...

Changing the Script: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 10, Scribal Stints and the Question of Norms in Early 10th Century Manuscripts

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · May 15

Congratulations to medievalist Prof David Carpenter for making this marvelous discovery. A previously believed copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, genuine! Read more here: www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · May 7

Next London Palaeography Seminar: Changing the Script: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 10, Scribal Stints and the Question of Norms in Early 10th Century Manuscripts, 21 May 2025 (online and in person) with Sharon Rowley (Christopher Newport University, VA) ies.sas.ac.uk/events/chang...

Changing the Script: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 10, Scribal Stints and the Question of Norms in Early 10th Century Manuscripts

ies.sas.ac.uk

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U of T Centre for Medieval Studies @uoftcms.bsky.social · May 7

Attend online: Épinal-Erfurt Glossary Colloquium: "Early Latin–Old English Glossaries" - May 31-31
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/%C3%A...

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · May 1

Our cohort is still welcoming MA+ students! Applications are still open (UK students only). Check out the application process here together with deadlines and more info on this brilliant opportunity: www.komldsp.org.uk/ma-scholarsh...

Master's Plus - Knowledge Orders before Modernity

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our PhD based at King's College, Ben Gray, joined the Haskoli Islands Student Conference on the Medieval North. His presentation looked at the three Finnic allies of Novgorod as part of a forum held every April in Reykjavik dedicated to doctoral students working in medieval northern studies
#komldsp

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Apr 17

PhD alert! ECOMEDS examines the interrelationships between economy, environment and culture in the Mediterranean, c.1250-1550.

DL: 23rd of May 2025
www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

#PhD #cfa #callforapplication #ecomeds #kingscollege

PhD studentship (ECOMEDS: Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean ecosystems, c.1250-1550)

Funded PhD studentship in medieval history on the project ECOMEDS (UKRI Frontier Research Grant, formerly ERC)

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Mar 25

Dear all, today we invite to join us online and in person for the London Palaeography Seminar ies.sas.ac.uk/events/many-...
Ana de Olivier Dias received her PhD from Durham in 2019, and is currently engaged in her second postdoc project which draws on the work of the Crafting Documents project #kom

Many scripts, many scribes, many ways: the production of relic labels in the early Middle Ages

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Mar 6

Yesterday, the KOM cohort spent a day in Cambridge visiting the manuscript collection at the Fitzwilliam, where Dr Suzanne Reynolds hosted us. Next, the cohort visited the University Library's Cairo Genizah project, which Prof. Ben Outhwaite was kind enough to introduce us to.
#komldsp #Cambridge

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Feb 24

There's still time to apply (DL Thu, noon) for our PhD projects. Here's one: Remembering the Martyrs. It seeks to understand the use and adaptation of Usuard’s martyrology through its reception in pre-1200 continental manuscripts w Alice Rio & Edward Roberts
komldsp.org.uk/projects/rem... #phd #cfa

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Feb 20

PhD opportunity with Ryan Perry & @lawrencewarner.bsky.social! Remaking History: Reproducing the Middle English Prose Brut in the late medieval metropolis. It'll investigate the literary production phenomena in medieval England represented by extant manuscripts and fragments of this chronicle #cfa

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Feb 18

Don't forget that you have until the 27th of February (noon) to apply to our PhD projects. Check the full list and conditions here www.komldsp.org.uk/projects/ or refer to our older posts.
The projects are a collaboration between two institutions (King's College & University of Kent).
#phd #cfa

Projects - Knowledge Orders before Modernity

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Feb 18

Prior Eastry's Memory Palace
Apply for this PhD project and explore crucial & largely untapped records of Canterbury's social and economic life in the High Middle Ages within the Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library (CCAL). More info: komldsp.org.uk/prior-eastry...
#phd #cfa #canterbury

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Feb 12

Members of our cohort joined this yesterday. Their verdict? They absolutely loved Jaakko Tahkokallio's talk for the London Palaeography Seminar. #talk #MS #fragments #Sweden

Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · Feb 11

And we have started: Jaakko Tahkokallio begins introducing the London Palaeography Seminar to the history of fragmentation in Sweden. A treat!

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Feb 11

There's still time to apply to this project! CHASE-funded and part of @memsunikent.bsky.social at Kent!

Lost Manuscripts @lostmss.bsky.social · Nov 20

Exciting PhD Opportunity! Come join @memsunikent.bsky.social for a CHASE-funded collaborative doctoral award with Westminster Abbey to investigate the manuscript fragments held in the Abbey’s Archives. Learn more at the link below, deadline to apply 17 Feb 2025 📜🎉
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

News - Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies - Research at Kent

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Feb 11

Thank you!! All credit goes to the two supervisors and their wonderful project proposal.

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Feb 11

We're glad to hear that!! There are a lot of exciting questions within our available PhD positions ;)

Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Feb 8

This past Wednesday, our cohort visited the London @quaritch1847.bsky.social on 36 Bedford Row. This visit was kindly arranged by our PhD, Marc Lawson, who set up a meeting with some of Quaritch's senior booksellers, Alex and Andrea. We had the pleasure of browsing a lot of early material #phd #book

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Feb 3

Apply to our 2nd PhD project (see full list & DL here: www.komldsp.org.uk/projects/)
Why are some charters in landscape and others in portrait form? Explore the materiality of early medieval English charters with Prof. Julia Crick & Dr R. Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social
#PhD #cfa #skystorians

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Jan 30

Yesterday, the cohort was able to meet online with the authors/editors of "Unprinted: Publication Beyond the Press", Daria Kohler and Daniel Wakelin. If you'd like your afternoons to be like this, make sure you apply to our PhD positions (DL: 27th of Feb, noon) by checking our previous posts #phd

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Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social · Jan 27

Editing Lost Copy-Texts
Christopher Marlowe’s Plays and Poems
The project engages with research about authorship, attribution studies, and canon creation, attempting to identify an author’s habitual practices of writing. Read more here & apply: www.komldsp.org.uk/projects/edi...
#cfa #phd #komldsp

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