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Knowledge Orders before Modernity
@komldsp.bsky.social
A Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme, a partnership between King's College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent. Directors: Prof. Julia Crick and Dr David Rundle.
Website: https://www.komldsp.org.uk/
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
June 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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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
May 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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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
May 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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
ies.sas.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Don't forget there's still time to join this! #palaeography #london #seminar #medieval
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
May 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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...
May 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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
May 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Attend online: Épinal-Erfurt Glossary Colloquium: "Early Latin–Old English Glossaries" - May 31-31
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/%C3%A...
May 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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
www.komldsp.org.uk
May 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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
April 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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
April 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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
ies.sas.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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
March 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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
February 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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
February 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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
www.komldsp.org.uk
February 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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
February 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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
And we have started: Jaakko Tahkokallio begins introducing the London Palaeography Seminar to the history of fragmentation in Sweden. A treat!
February 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
There's still time to apply to this project! CHASE-funded and part of @memsunikent.bsky.social at Kent!
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...
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February 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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
February 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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
February 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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
January 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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
January 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The Knowledge Orders cohort, kindly joined by Prof. Julia Crick and @drdavidrundle.bsky.social, visited the Silk Roads exhibition at the BM. This was a great opportunity to ponder how knowledge is transmitted & how the Silk Roads can be framed differently when presented to the public. #britishmuseum
January 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Our ad is up on findaphd.com! See the ad here: findaphd.com/phds/program...

Knowledge Orders is an innovative collaboration between
@kingsartshums.bsky.social and @memsunikent.bsky.social & the deadline for these 6 PhD positions is 27th of February, 2025 (noon). #cfa #phd #komldsp #research #uk
January 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM