Jobs for Medievalists

The Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University is pleased to announce details of a new post-doctoral fellowship to carry out research in the context of the Durham Priory Library Recreated digitisation project. Further information is attached and the online job advertisement is available here: http://bit.ly/2gfEfxg

 

We would be grateful if you could circulate it as widely as possible:

 

Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation/Durham University Post-Doctoral Fellowship

 

Deadline for applications: 12 noon, 9th January 2017

 

Interview date: 20th January 2017

 

Start date: 1st March 2017

 

Purpose: To conduct post-doctoral research in the context of the Durham Priory Library Recreated digitisation project. This project is a collaboration between Durham Cathedral and Durham University for the digitisation of 480 volumes of manuscripts and several dozen printed books belonging to the pre-Reformation Cathedral Library and dating from the seventh century AD onwards. The fellow will work on material that has been, or is being, digitised in one of five (overlapping) research areas:

 

(1) History of the Book;

(2) Community Living: Liturgy, Rules and Well-Being;

(3) Scholastic Learning and Philosophical Enquiry;

(4) Science, Knowledge and the Natural World;

(5) Digital Recreations

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