Becca Grose
@beccagrose.bsky.social
Social historian of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Inscriptions, Burgundians. Postdoc on Land & Loyalty: Politics of Land in the Later Roman World at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Here for the CfPs and new publications.
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2-year position for a woman - could be a medievalist!
Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship – History of Classical and/or Medieval Europe. Deadline: January 15, 2026. #cdnhist @queenshistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
2-year position for a woman - could be a medievalist!
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And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.
Come for Aleksander's paper, stay for my first paper from "Land & Loyalty: the politics of land in the later Roman world" @staclassics.bsky.social, on why female grant recipients aren't mysterious exceptions but central to understanding late Roman land grants. research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Come for Aleksander's paper, stay for my first paper from "Land & Loyalty: the politics of land in the later Roman world" @staclassics.bsky.social, on why female grant recipients aren't mysterious exceptions but central to understanding late Roman land grants. research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/
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I am very much looking forward to this workshop at which I am speaking in Bonn in November, organised among others by @akjp89.bsky.social, and funded partly by @dependencybonn.de
October 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I am very much looking forward to this workshop at which I am speaking in Bonn in November, organised among others by @akjp89.bsky.social, and funded partly by @dependencybonn.de
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The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.
We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.
Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.
Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
September 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.
We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.
Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.
Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
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Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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We are looking for a one-year full-time Research Associate to work on Coptic manuscripts in Manchester as part of a wonderful project that connects mss with local communities. Requires strong skills in Coptic, English, & Arabic. Deadline 31/10. Please share! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate – Coptic in Manchester (UKRI):John Rylands Library
Key collaborators are the Coptic Church in Stockport, Manchester, and the Coptic Church in Llandudno, Wales. The project has an extensive and international advisory board. A PDRA seeking an academic career may find the balance between traditional research and co-creation appealing.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
We are looking for a one-year full-time Research Associate to work on Coptic manuscripts in Manchester as part of a wonderful project that connects mss with local communities. Requires strong skills in Coptic, English, & Arabic. Deadline 31/10. Please share! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Any UK-based PhDs working on medieval women interested in giving a lighting talk to this seminar? It'd be good to get some premodern representation.
@ihr.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Any UK-based PhDs working on medieval women interested in giving a lighting talk to this seminar? It'd be good to get some premodern representation.
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Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Lecturer in Early Medieval History (c.400-1100)
Are you an experienced Lecturer who can teach British and European Early Medieval History? Do you have a passion for Medieval History and are you available for a fixed term contract to start in Septe...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
July 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Delighted to say that I've been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2025-26, and we are hiring a 1-year full-time lecturer in early medieval history to replace me. Deadline 7 August. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the role! jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3
‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’
Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3
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IMC '26 CfP for a new strand
Future Insight and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (200–900 CE)
We invite proposals for papers interrogating the methods and outcomes of acquiring future insight in the cultures of Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. +
Future Insight and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (200–900 CE)
We invite proposals for papers interrogating the methods and outcomes of acquiring future insight in the cultures of Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. +
July 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
IMC '26 CfP for a new strand
Future Insight and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (200–900 CE)
We invite proposals for papers interrogating the methods and outcomes of acquiring future insight in the cultures of Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. +
Future Insight and Its Discontents in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (200–900 CE)
We invite proposals for papers interrogating the methods and outcomes of acquiring future insight in the cultures of Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. +
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📣 call for applications 📣
Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
Please share widely!
www.historyworkshop....
Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
Please share widely!
www.historyworkshop....
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📣 call for applications 📣
Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
Please share widely!
www.historyworkshop....
Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
Please share widely!
www.historyworkshop....
And, for anyone with @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up, it was a great paper (as were all our contributions and the response from @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social .) I had no idea that early Islamic scholars had the same problems as some Carolingian penitential authors when it comes to sex positions...
Heading to the IMC? Tomorrow Sheida will be presenting on 'Early Islamic Sexual Taboos: The Boundaries of Permissibility in al-Ṭabarī and al-Ṭabarānī's Narratives', as part of @beccagrose.bsky.social and Grace Stafford's panels on 'Sex Education and Late Antiquity'. 11:15-12:45, Esther Simpson 2.08
July 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
And, for anyone with @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up, it was a great paper (as were all our contributions and the response from @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social .) I had no idea that early Islamic scholars had the same problems as some Carolingian penitential authors when it comes to sex positions...
Our latest Land & Loyalty update isn't about late Roman land grants, or confiscation - instead, my colleague Giordana won the “Giuliano Crifò” prize for her PhD on John Lydus's De Magistratibus.
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
One of the best things about L&L is such expert colleagues!
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
One of the best things about L&L is such expert colleagues!
Dr Giordana Franceschini awarded international “Giuliano Crifò” prize
On 25 June 2025 at Spello, Perugia, Dr. Giordana Franceschini was awarded the international “Giuliano Crifò” prize by the Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana for her dissertation, a critical commen…
research.st-andrews.ac.uk
July 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Our latest Land & Loyalty update isn't about late Roman land grants, or confiscation - instead, my colleague Giordana won the “Giuliano Crifò” prize for her PhD on John Lydus's De Magistratibus.
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
One of the best things about L&L is such expert colleagues!
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
One of the best things about L&L is such expert colleagues!
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What a wonderful Merovingianist day we had on Wednesday at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social ! Thanks to my coorganisers @beccagrose.bsky.social and @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social and to all our speakers. Thanks especially to our respondent Shane Björnlie. I feel challenged and inspired #medievalsky
July 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
What a wonderful Merovingianist day we had on Wednesday at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social ! Thanks to my coorganisers @beccagrose.bsky.social and @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social and to all our speakers. Thanks especially to our respondent Shane Björnlie. I feel challenged and inspired #medievalsky
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Heading to the IMC? Tomorrow Sheida will be presenting on 'Early Islamic Sexual Taboos: The Boundaries of Permissibility in al-Ṭabarī and al-Ṭabarānī's Narratives', as part of @beccagrose.bsky.social and Grace Stafford's panels on 'Sex Education and Late Antiquity'. 11:15-12:45, Esther Simpson 2.08
July 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Heading to the IMC? Tomorrow Sheida will be presenting on 'Early Islamic Sexual Taboos: The Boundaries of Permissibility in al-Ṭabarī and al-Ṭabarānī's Narratives', as part of @beccagrose.bsky.social and Grace Stafford's panels on 'Sex Education and Late Antiquity'. 11:15-12:45, Esther Simpson 2.08
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Tomorrow I'll be presenting a paper in the First St Andrews Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop in Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies at the @staclassics.bsky.social I'm looking forward to this great initiative!
June 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Tomorrow I'll be presenting a paper in the First St Andrews Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop in Late Antique and Early Medieval Studies at the @staclassics.bsky.social I'm looking forward to this great initiative!
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@imc-leeds.bsky.social is almost upon us and since the app is now out, I thought I’d remind everyone of our 4 panels on the Merovingians happening all day Wednesday. We finally rallied everyone together so be there or be square! #merovingian #imcleeds2025 @beccagrose.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
@imc-leeds.bsky.social is almost upon us and since the app is now out, I thought I’d remind everyone of our 4 panels on the Merovingians happening all day Wednesday. We finally rallied everyone together so be there or be square! #merovingian #imcleeds2025 @beccagrose.bsky.social
IMC 2025: Merovingianist Mixer
We'll be at the Library bar, where campus meets Hyde Park, to avoid interrupting the Euros at Old Bar again.
All welcome, whether you work on late antique or Merovingian Gaul or want to meet people who do.
Plz RSVP to @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social for table space!
We'll be at the Library bar, where campus meets Hyde Park, to avoid interrupting the Euros at Old Bar again.
All welcome, whether you work on late antique or Merovingian Gaul or want to meet people who do.
Plz RSVP to @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social for table space!
Calling all #IMC2025 Merovingianists and late antique Gaul people!
Sunday 7th July 25, ca 5pm onwards
@michaelajaneruth.bsky.social and I will be hosting the second annual Merovingianists Mixer!
All welcome for a chill pre
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
drink, especially postgrads, ECRs & first-timers.
Sunday 7th July 25, ca 5pm onwards
@michaelajaneruth.bsky.social and I will be hosting the second annual Merovingianists Mixer!
All welcome for a chill pre
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
drink, especially postgrads, ECRs & first-timers.
June 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
IMC 2025: Merovingianist Mixer
We'll be at the Library bar, where campus meets Hyde Park, to avoid interrupting the Euros at Old Bar again.
All welcome, whether you work on late antique or Merovingian Gaul or want to meet people who do.
Plz RSVP to @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social for table space!
We'll be at the Library bar, where campus meets Hyde Park, to avoid interrupting the Euros at Old Bar again.
All welcome, whether you work on late antique or Merovingian Gaul or want to meet people who do.
Plz RSVP to @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social for table space!
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Combined Classics Library Bursaries (up to £300) now accepting applications to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Combined Classics Library in summer 2025 in order to advance or complete a project of research or scholarship.
Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg
Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg
Combined Classics Library Bursaries
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May 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Combined Classics Library Bursaries (up to £300) now accepting applications to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Combined Classics Library in summer 2025 in order to advance or complete a project of research or scholarship.
Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg
Details here: https://shorturl.at/XRjqg
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#Seminar, Wednesday 28 May 2025 at 3pm:
“On societal leave: potential factors explaining the presence of harvest contractors in the Roman world.”
Speaker: Lluís Jerez i Bertolín (Birmingham)
Hybrid: Rm S3 Swallowgate, and Teams
For meeting link, email rcg20@st-andrews.ac.uk
#AllWelcome
“On societal leave: potential factors explaining the presence of harvest contractors in the Roman world.”
Speaker: Lluís Jerez i Bertolín (Birmingham)
Hybrid: Rm S3 Swallowgate, and Teams
For meeting link, email rcg20@st-andrews.ac.uk
#AllWelcome
May 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#Seminar, Wednesday 28 May 2025 at 3pm:
“On societal leave: potential factors explaining the presence of harvest contractors in the Roman world.”
Speaker: Lluís Jerez i Bertolín (Birmingham)
Hybrid: Rm S3 Swallowgate, and Teams
For meeting link, email rcg20@st-andrews.ac.uk
#AllWelcome
“On societal leave: potential factors explaining the presence of harvest contractors in the Roman world.”
Speaker: Lluís Jerez i Bertolín (Birmingham)
Hybrid: Rm S3 Swallowgate, and Teams
For meeting link, email rcg20@st-andrews.ac.uk
#AllWelcome
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At the Connecting Late Antiquities project we've compiled a list of digital projects on late antiquity - one step to, erm, connecting late antiquities!
Huge thanks to @bnduman.net & @laurahartmann.bsky.social
Take a look, the variety is mindblowing!
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/...
Huge thanks to @bnduman.net & @laurahartmann.bsky.social
Take a look, the variety is mindblowing!
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/...
Related Digital Projects
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de
March 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
At the Connecting Late Antiquities project we've compiled a list of digital projects on late antiquity - one step to, erm, connecting late antiquities!
Huge thanks to @bnduman.net & @laurahartmann.bsky.social
Take a look, the variety is mindblowing!
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/...
Huge thanks to @bnduman.net & @laurahartmann.bsky.social
Take a look, the variety is mindblowing!
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/...
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Team! We are looking for a new *permanent* medievalist-Latinist to work with us at St Andrews!
#medievalsky
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...
#medievalsky
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...
Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c.1100-1500 – AO1974DD at University of St Andrews
An academic position as a Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c.1100-1500 – AO1974DD is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more deta...
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March 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Team! We are looking for a new *permanent* medievalist-Latinist to work with us at St Andrews!
#medievalsky
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...
#medievalsky
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...
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3-year postdoctoral research fellowship at Cambridge to work on comparative aspects of "Science & Civilization in the Ancient World" (defined as up to 1000 AD); application deadline March 31st, 2025, with a start date in October 2025. #HistSci
February 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
3-year postdoctoral research fellowship at Cambridge to work on comparative aspects of "Science & Civilization in the Ancient World" (defined as up to 1000 AD); application deadline March 31st, 2025, with a start date in October 2025. #HistSci