Becca Grose
@beccagrose.bsky.social
Social historian of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Inscriptions, Burgundians. Postdoc: Land & Loyalty: Politics of Land in the Later Roman World, University of St Andrews. Here for the CfPs and new publications.
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𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝘀
𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮
Éric Fournier, Maijastina Kahlos (eds)
More Info: bit.ly/49KnjI8
#Women #Antiquity #Medieval #Womensstudies #Europe #Africa #History #Medievalsky #Medievalists
𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮
Éric Fournier, Maijastina Kahlos (eds)
More Info: bit.ly/49KnjI8
#Women #Antiquity #Medieval #Womensstudies #Europe #Africa #History #Medievalsky #Medievalists
January 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝘀
𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮
Éric Fournier, Maijastina Kahlos (eds)
More Info: bit.ly/49KnjI8
#Women #Antiquity #Medieval #Womensstudies #Europe #Africa #History #Medievalsky #Medievalists
𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮
Éric Fournier, Maijastina Kahlos (eds)
More Info: bit.ly/49KnjI8
#Women #Antiquity #Medieval #Womensstudies #Europe #Africa #History #Medievalsky #Medievalists
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There is time to apply until 30
January for this opportunity sponsored by Early Medieval Europe to spend one month at the British School in Rome
January for this opportunity sponsored by Early Medieval Europe to spend one month at the British School in Rome
📣 BSR / Early Medieval Europe Fellowship – Call for Applications!
Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in early medieval European history?
Apply now!
⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2026
More info here: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...
Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in early medieval European history?
Apply now!
⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2026
More info here: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...
January 7, 2026 at 9:02 AM
There is time to apply until 30
January for this opportunity sponsored by Early Medieval Europe to spend one month at the British School in Rome
January for this opportunity sponsored by Early Medieval Europe to spend one month at the British School in Rome
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🚨CfP: Land and Power in the Late Roman World. Deadline: 11 Jan 26, event 29 Jun-1 July 26.
Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited!
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited!
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
Call for Papers — Land and Power in the Later Roman World
Tübingen, June 29 to July 1, 2026 Codex Justiniani I-IX cum glosa Franciscus Accursius, Guido de Suzaria, Guillelmus de Ferreriis, Petrus de Ferreriis, Petrus de Cerveriis (BHSL.HS.0021) Land and l…
research.st-andrews.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🚨CfP: Land and Power in the Late Roman World. Deadline: 11 Jan 26, event 29 Jun-1 July 26.
Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited!
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited!
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
🚨CfP: Land and Power in the Late Roman World. Deadline: 11 Jan 26, event 29 Jun-1 July 26.
Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited!
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited!
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
Call for Papers — Land and Power in the Later Roman World
Tübingen, June 29 to July 1, 2026 Codex Justiniani I-IX cum glosa Franciscus Accursius, Guido de Suzaria, Guillelmus de Ferreriis, Petrus de Ferreriis, Petrus de Cerveriis (BHSL.HS.0021) Land and l…
research.st-andrews.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🚨CfP: Land and Power in the Late Roman World. Deadline: 11 Jan 26, event 29 Jun-1 July 26.
Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited!
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited!
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
And the prizes keep rolling in for my counterpart - latest on the L&L blog, Dr Giordana Franceschini wins a research award from the Associazione Internazionale di Studi Tardoantichi for her thesis!
And the prizes keep rolling in for my counterpart - latest on the L&L blog, Dr Giordana Franceschini wins a research award from the Associazione Internazionale di Studi Tardoantichi for her thesis!
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...
And the prizes keep rolling in for my counterpart - latest on the L&L blog, Dr Giordana Franceschini wins a research award from the Associazione Internazionale di Studi Tardoantichi for her thesis!
And the prizes keep rolling in for my counterpart - latest on the L&L blog, Dr Giordana Franceschini wins a research award from the Associazione Internazionale di Studi Tardoantichi for her thesis!
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I’ve put together a list of funding sources for graduate students in biblical studies and early Christianity. Most of these are only available to students in the U.S. but many of them don’t have citizenship requirements. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Bible and Early Christianity US Graduate School Funding
SCHOLARSHIPS Fellowship Description Estimated Deadline Degree level Citizenship Davis Putter Scholarship Fund — Up to $15,000 for students who are active and emerging organizers in progressive movemen...
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May 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’ve put together a list of funding sources for graduate students in biblical studies and early Christianity. Most of these are only available to students in the U.S. but many of them don’t have citizenship requirements. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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#Seminar: "Reforming Justinian’s empire: The praetorian prefect John the Cappadocian"
Giordana Franceschini (Tübingen)
🗓️ 28 November, 4:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
Giordana Franceschini (Tübingen)
🗓️ 28 November, 4:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
#Seminar: "Reforming Justinian’s empire: The praetorian prefect John the Cappadocian"
Giordana Franceschini (Tübingen)
🗓️ 28 November, 4:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
Giordana Franceschini (Tübingen)
🗓️ 28 November, 4:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
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2-year position for a woman - could be a medievalist!
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!