Notice Board
Below are links to information submitted by medievalist colleagues both in and outside the Notre Dame community. These are provided as a general service and not as a comprehensive list. Periodically, outdated postings will be deleted, but readers are encouraged to check deadline information carefully.
Calls for Papers (Conferences)
Calls for Submissions (Journals)
Fellowship/Job Announcements
ASCSA Spring Fellowships
Advanced Fellowships for Returning Members (02/15 deadline)
Several fellowships for the full academic year at the ASCSA with a stipend, plus room and board at Loring Hall, and waiver of School fees are available to students who have completed all requirements for their degree other than the dissertation and have a specific project that requires extended residence in Greece. Applicants must have been Regular Members or Student Associate Members for a preceding academic year. Student Associate Membership qualification does not include Summer Program membership or excavation projects. Apply here.
Jacob Hirsch Fellowship (02/15 deadline)
For projects carried out in Greece; eligibility is limited to U.S. or Israeli citizens, Ph.D. candidate writing a dissertation or recent Ph.D. (within the last 5 years) revising a dissertation for publication. A stipend of $11,500 plus room and board at Loring Hall, and waiver of School fees. Apply here.
Paul Rehak Memorial Traveling Fellowship (03/01 deadline)
For Regular Members and Student Associate members in attendance at the ASCSA for the entire academic year. Maximum grant of $1,000 or lesser amounts. School fees are waived. The purpose is to allow individuals to travel in Greece or nearby lands to conduct research during the current academic year from September 2025 to July 1, 2026. Compensation for travel that transpired during the prior fall and winter terms or planned for the spring term of the 2025-2026 academic year will be considered. Apply here.
Harry Bikakis Fellowship (03/15 deadline)
For North American or Greek graduate students researching ancient Greek law or Greek graduate students working on a School excavation. Stipend of $1,875. School fees are waived either for the duration of the field project or for the academic year during which the fellow is carrying out research at the ASCSA. Apply here.
Joan and Eugene Vanderpool Fellowship in the Athenian Agora
(03/15 deadline)
For Ph.D. holders and graduate students working on any aspect of the Athenian Agora from antiquity to the present are eligible. Open to all nationalities. The fellowship includes a stipend of $5,000 and a waiver of up to two months of membership fees for residency in Athens while working on the proposed project. The award is to be used between July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2027. Apply here.
AGHI & Sheridan Libraries Graduate Student Summer Fellowship Program
Beginning in July 2026, AGHI and the Sheridan Libraries will offer two paid six-week fellowships for PhD students in the humanities below year five or entering year six of their program. Fellows will pursue one of two tracks:
(1) Rotational Fellowships under the direction of Dr. Mack Zalin: Fellows will engage with the various aspects of scholar librarianship, including collection development, reference, instruction, cataloging, digital humanities, and service to the profession. (2) Special Collections Curatorial Fellowships under the direction of Dr. Earle Havens: Fellows will work with pre-1800 rare books and manuscripts at the Stern Center for the History of the Book on a project tailored to their academic and research interests. Each Fellow will prepare an overview description of a collection of rare materials around a specific theme as well as ten brief public-facing essays, accompanied by digital images, which will be posted on the Stern Center website. Examples of such essays can be found here.
Stipend: $5000
Deadline Extended: February 15th, with decisions by the end of February.
Application Materials: (1) Project proposal of no more than 1,000 words; (2) Letter of recommendation from your academic advisor; (3) Informal transcript detailing your coursework at JHU.
Medieval Academy of America CARA Summer Programs and Tuition Scholarships
A limited number of stipends are available for graduate students and particularly promising undergraduate students participating in summer courses in medieval languages or manuscript studies. The stipend will be paid directly to the student and must be used to offset a portion of the tuition cost. The awards are contingent on acceptance into the program. Applicants must be members of the Medieval Academy in good standing with at least one year of graduate school remaining and must demonstrate both the importance of the summer course to their program of study and their home institution’s inability to offer analogous coursework.
There will be between four and eight awards yearly, depending upon the number of worthy applicants and the cost of the summer programs.
Eligible programs include (but are not limited to): University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute (Medieval Languages, Paleography, Codicology, and Diplomatics).
Visit the fellowship's website.
Fellowship contact: LFD@TheMedievalAcademy.org
The Sciola Grant for Research in Italy
Sponsored by the Diana M. Sciola Endowment for Excellence to support research on Catholic Tradition and Italian Artistic Culture.
The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA) invites undergraduates and graduate students in all Arts and Letters disciplines whose research interests address the impact of Catholic traditions upon Italian artistic culture to submit proposals to the Sciola Grant Program. In order to be eligible for funding, research must take place in Italy. The Sciola Family Endowment supports projects that study the various ways in which the Catholic tradition has influenced the visual arts, theatre, architecture, fashion, music, cinema, literature, design, culinary arts, and photography throughout the ages.
A double-spaced, 3-page proposal, budget, and a letter of recommendation are required of both undergraduates and graduates. Proposals should make clear the connection between Catholic tradition and the artistic expression under study.
For details concerning the submission of applications as well as post-grant requirements, see UROP Proposal Requirements for Academic Year & Summer Submissions. Undergraduates must upload their application materials to UrApply (including health form and parental consent); graduate students should email their completed applications, along with a Sciola Grant Proposal Cover Sheet, to Therese Blacketor.
See Grant Post-Award Requirements for the required final report guidelines.
Maximum award: $2,500. Proposals accepted on a rolling basis.
Fellowships for Research and Study at the Gennadius Library
Ariane Condellis Fellowship
Constantine and George Macricostas Fellowship
Cotsen Traveling Fellowship for Research in Greece
Kathryn and Peter Yatrakis Fellowship
M. Alison Frantz Fellowship
Zoë Sarbanes Pappas Senior Fellowship
William and Suzanne Murray Research Fellowship
The William and Suzanne Murray Research Fellowship provides graduate students access to the unique resources of the American School and the opportunity to pursue research in the rich archaeological, historical, and cultural landscape of Greece.
Graduate students working on a research project that requires residency in Greece are eligible. The fellowship is open to students enrolled in North American universities. Priority is given to applicants whose home institutions do not provide access to or sufficient funding for the proposed project. The project may relate to dissertation research or an independent project (e.g., research on an article or research as a member of an excavation team).
The fellowship includes a stipend of $4000 for one fellowship or $2000 if two smaller projects are funded in the year, and a waiver of up to two months of membership fees for the duration of residency in Greece while working on the proposed project. The stipend may be used for travel, lodging, equipment, summer expenses, or other project-related needs. The award is to be used between July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2027. (Summer projects may begin in June, but funds will not be disbursed until July 1.)
A final report is due at the end of the award period. The ASCSA expects that all publications that result from research conducted as a Fellow of the ASCSA acknowledge the support of the ASCSA and that copies be contributed to the appropriate library of the School.
Submit an online application form for the “Murray Research Fellowship.” An application consists of a curriculum vitae, description of the proposed project (up to 750 words), a short description of financial support already received or committed for research travel during the proposed research term, a timeline and budget of the proposed project, and two letters of reference to be submitted online. If the proposal involves work on excavation material, please include a letter from the director giving permission.
Find more information about the fellowship. The deadline to apply is January 15, 2026.
Fellowships at the Newberry Library
The Newberry Library's long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship.
In addition to the library's collections, fellows are supported by a collegial interdisciplinary community of researchers, curators, and librarians. An array of scholarly and public programs also contributes to an engaging intellectual environment.
Learn about how to apply, and contact research@newberry.org with questions.
Long-Term Fellowships
Long-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for continuous residence at the Newberry for periods of 4 to 9 months; the stipend is $5,000 per month. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline in order to be eligible. Long-Term Fellowships are intended to support individual scholarly research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the fellowship program. The new deadline for long-term fellowships is November 21. Learn more.
Short-Term Fellowships
Short-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, and those who hold other terminal degrees. Short-Term Fellowships are generally awarded for 1 to 2 months; unless otherwise noted the stipend is $3,000 per month. These fellowships support individual scholarly research for those who have a specific need for the Newberry's collection. The deadline for short-term opportunities is December 8. Learn more.
3-year Post-doctoral Position in Medieval Studies at the University of Southern Denmark
The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is expected to begin 1 April 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. We seek a highly motivated post-doctoral researcher to work on Work Package 3 of CODICUM, led by PI prof. Lars Boje Mortensen.
CODUCUM is a collaborative project on Nordic medieval intellectual and book history based on the c. 50.000 medieval Latin manuscript fragments kept in the major archives and libraries in the Nordic countries. The project is financed by an ERC synergy grant (2025-31) and is led by four PIs at the Universities of Bergen, Helsinki, Copenhagen and SDU in Odense. The ambition of the project is rewriting medieval Nordic book history with traditional humanities approaches combined with a substantial science element in terms of spectrometric parchment analysis of proteins and DNA.
Find more about the job's description and requirements, as well as details about the application process. Applications are due 8 January 2026.
Calls for Papers (Conferences)
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
The ASOR Standing Session on the Archaeology of the Late Antique and Byzantine Near East invites papers exploring fieldwork, material culture, and/or theoretical/methodological perspectives on the transformational phase of the Roman Empire (Late Antique) or the empire centered in Constantinople (Byzantine) that emerged after the geopolitical, social, and religious changes of the seventh century. The session particularly seeks papers that look beyond modern national borders.
25th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies
Calls for Submissions (Journals)
Vexillium: The Undergraduate Journal of Classical and Medieval Studies (Fall 2025 issue)
Vexillium, Yale's undergraduate Medieval Studies journal, publishes a broad range of materials, from history papers to artistic submissions to translated poetry. Submissions for the Fall 2025 issue are now open.
If you are interested in submitting for the Fall 2025 issue, please email a copy of your submission to baala.shakya@yale.edu. Submissions longer than 2,500 words (10 pages) require a 1-paragraph abstract attached to the document.
For more information on our standards, please reach out to alex.geldzahler@yale.edu with any questions or unique submissions.
Conference Announcements
Miscellaneous Announcements
The Centre for Medieval Studies Summer Latin Program
The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto offers a Summer Latin Program consisting of three levels of study: Beginning Latin, Level I Latin, and Level II Latin. All three levels of Latin instruction are now taught exclusively online, virtually via Zoom. All courses are taught from 10:30 am-12:30 pm (EDT).
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Beginning Latin: May 11-July 3
- Includes a free Beginning Review course, July 7-23.
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Level I Latin: May 18-June 26 - Level I Latin.
- Includes a free Level I Latin Review course, May 5-15.
- Level II Latin: July 2-August 7
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 1.
Those who regularly attend courses and complete assignments will be provided with an official letter detailing the course content and their participation. Following successful completion of Level I and Level II programming, students may elect to register for a CMS Latin Exam to receive a Statement of Proficiency, which is a requirement for many post-secondary programs both in North America and internationally.
Financial support can be found through the Medieval Academy of America / CARA Summer Scholarship Programme. The deadline to apply for this funding is April 1.
Please do not hesitate to contact Graduate Administration at gradadm.medieval@utoronto.ca.
AMS Summer Institute: Studying Early Music with Computers
In summer 2026, the American Musicological Society (AMS) will host a two-week residential Institute for Higher Education Faculty entitled Studying Early Music with Computers: Tools, Formats, and Strategies, to be held at New York University, 14–27 June 2026. This institute will apply insights from recent scholarship in humanistic music studies (musicology, music theory, music analysis, etc.) and digital humanities to organize an innovative program for the machine-assisted study of medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music. It will be co-directed by Julie E. Cumming and Richard Freedman, and will feature workshops and seminars facilitated by Benjamin Ory, Chris White, Reba Wissner, Jennifer Bain, Karen Desmond, Ichiro Fujinaga, Debra Lacoste, Cory McKay, Emiliano Ricciardi, Craig Sapp, and Martha Thomae.
Participants receive a stipend of $2,200 to support attendance and travel, as well as access to reduced-rate dorm accommodations for the duration of the institute. You must apply by 6 March 2026, 11:59 p.m. ET. Application and eligibility details are provided on the institute website.
Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars 2026
This year the Mediterranean Seminar in conjuction with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group is offering thirteen Summer Skills Seminars – intensive four-day boot-camps for scholars, researchers, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, librarians, teachers, professionals and afficionados. Led by leading authorities and emerging scholars in their respective fields, the Summer Skill Seminars provide either a foundation or an intensive focus on different aspects of Mediterranean Studies. Acquire new skills to augment your research profile and open new areas of specialization, explore a new subject area or theme to enrich your teaching or simply expand your field of knowledge in these small-group hands-on four-day synchronous remote workshops.
Application deadline is April 26. For information and to apply, visit their website.
California Rare Book School Summer 2026
This season, CalRBS is offering in-person courses in Mexico City (Mexico), Los Angeles, and New York, as well as a range of online offerings. In addition to courses hosted at University of California, Los Angeles, the 2026 season includes courses offered in partnership with The Morgan Library & Museum (New York), Brooklyn, Inc. (Brooklyn), The Claremont Colleges Library (Los Angeles), and in Mexico City with Instituto Mora.
Applications are being accepted through Submittable. The deadline for first-round course applications is April 15, 2026. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all available seats are filled. A limited number of scholarship awards are available to librarians, archivists, scholars, booksellers, collectors, graduate students, and others. All course applicants are eligible to apply. The priority deadline for scholarship consideration is April 15, 2026, after which applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all scholarships are awarded.
For more details about course listings and scholarships, visit their website. If you have any questions, contact CalRBS Project Manager, Liza Mardoyan at: calrbs@gseis.ucla.edu
Roundtable on Participating in Conferences as a Graduate Student
Hosted by Vagantes Board Mentorship & Professionalization Representative Danny Berman in advance of the Vagantes 2026 Conference at the University of Rochester.
Thursday, February 12th, 1–2 pm EST, on Zoom (Zoom link).
Please join the Vagantes community for an informative roundtable discussion with Lauren Mancia (History, City University of New York), Anna Siebach-Larsen (Director of Robbins Library, University of Rochester), and R.D. Perry (English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), on attending conferences in your graduate student career. The roundtable will cover topics such as preparing for Q&As, effectively describing your research in casual conversation, and how to use conferencing opportunities as foundations for your later career.
Paleography and Codicology Seminar
Timothy Graham will offer his four-week intensive seminar on Paleography and Codicology at the University of New Mexico, June 29–July 23, 2026. The seminar is open to graduate students from any institution and may also be of interest to junior faculty and independent scholars. There is a simple application process with a deadline of Monday, March 16. More inforomation here.
Rare Book School Summer Courses
Our summer 2026 course schedule features nearly 50 classes, including in-person offerings at three new course locations: York in the United Kingdom, North Bennet Street School in Boston, and the University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center. For more in-depth course descriptions and past student feedback, visit our website. Offerings that may be of particular interest to medievalists and early modernists include:
- H-25. Fifteenth-Century Books in Print & Manuscript, taught by Paul Needham & Eric White at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey
- H-205. Censorship from the Inquisition to the Present, taught by Ada Palmer at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois
- M-20. Seminar in Western Codicology, taught by M. Michèle Mulchahey at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia
- M-65v. From Poggio to Mabillon: The Study of Latin Manuscripts in the First Age of Print, taught by Anthony Grafton (online only)
- M-70. The Handwriting & Culture of Early Modern English Manuscripts, taught by Heather Wolfe at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia
For the best chance of being admitted, please submit your application(s) by the first-round deadline on 17 February. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all available seats have been filled, but many of the classes will fill in the first round of admissions decisions. Contact rbsprograms@virginia.edu with questions. More information here.
Polis: The Jerusalem Institute of Langauges and Humanities - New Language and General Course Offerings (Various Locations)
Starting in Fall 2024, The Polis Institute is adding new courses in Hurrian, Classical Syriac (online), and Coptic (in-person), as well as courses and field trips to discover the Holy Land, in addition to the courses they already offer for numerous different languages and topics.
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library’s online vHMML Museum goes live
View the full announcement.
The Project Team: Writing Culture in Southern German Women's Convents
'Writing Culture in Southern German Women's Convents' was the focus of a project funded from September 2008 until May 2012 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of its action plan on 'Libraries and Archives in Cooperation with Research'. This programmatic new approach made possible the cataloging, digitization, and academic study of medieval manuscripts and early printed books as well as of pragmatic documents and archival records from five selected southern German women's convents.
Jointly organized by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich and the Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster / Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf, the project studied the medieval books of these Bavarian convents and their archival holdings (until 1550) and now presents them embedded in their historical context. The manuscripts, archival records and incunables created or formerly owned by the Dominican sisters of Altenhohenau, the Bridgettines of Altomünster, the Poor Clares (St. Jakob am Anger) and Franciscan Tertiaries (Pütrichhaus) of Munich and the Benedictines of Neuburg an der Donau allowed systematic insights into the convent libraries, economic management and the particular roles of office holders. More broadly the project offered new perspectives on the education, internal organization and the self-conception of these religious communities.
After the dissolution of these houses the historical records were divided up and as a result, books and documents are today preserved in libraries as well as in archives. It was, therefore, crucial to bring them back together under an overall perspective. Through a synthesis of the source material, the rich heritage of these often highly-educated women and their engagement with literature can be assessed and presented in an unprecedented way, within the wider context of these politically and economically influential communities.
When the project expired, the project partner provided in-house effort for the publication of the results. The documents have been recently made accessible online as well as in a printed catalog.
A thematic research archive hosted by the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online offers introductory texts and an overview of the medieval holdings, structured by subject groups based on medieval ways of organizing libraries and knowledge, to allow comparisons despite the different quantity of source-material from each convent. Links provide direct access to digitized manuscripts, early printed books, documents, and archival records. Manuscript descriptions are available online.
The printed catalogue contains introductory material and detailed descriptions of the manuscripts from two of the convents as well as an overview of the printed material:
Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Die Handschriften aus den Klöstern Altenhohenau und Altomünster: Clm 2901-2966 sowie Streubestände gleicher Provenienz, Anja Freckmann, Juliane Trede and Elisabeth Wunderle, eds, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016.
Melanie Hömberg's study of the economic practices of the female communities, 'Economic Book Keeping in Context', is available on the homepage through a link. Almut Breitenbach's publications are listed in the bibliography.
Medieval Academy Newsletter
News items can be read on the MAA blog.
Revista Scriptorium
The latest issues can be accessed on this publication's website.
Facsimile of Moore Bede released
ISAS colleagues will be pleased to know that Cambridge University Library has released a full digital facsimile of the Moore Bede (CUL Kk.5.16), which is — almost certainly — the earliest copy of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum made not so very long after Bede's death in 735.
Go to the facsimile.
Digitization project
Codex Eyckensis and a 10th-century Gospel Book digitized by the Museums Department of Maaseik in Belgium.
See the press release.
Loveden Hill Urn 3D model now online
Colleagues with research and teaching interests in early Old English, runeology, material culture, archaeology, or digital humanities may be interested in a small project on the Loveden Hill cremation urn, which has just been completed by colleagues in Leicester and Nottingham (Martin Findell), with Dominic Powlesland (The Landscape Research Centre) and the generous support of the Trustees of the British Museum and the Museum's Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory.
Using digital photogrammetry, Dominic has created a dynamic 3D model of this 6th C cremation urn, which carries one of the earliest examples of written Old English, in runic script. The module is hosted on the British Museum's Sketchfab site and is free and accessible to all. You can view it at 3 resolutions, (LD, SD, HD – low, standard, high), and the files are small enough for you to view it in HD on your mobile phone (something to impress even your high-tech students). Annotations have been provided, but you can switch these off using the tools in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
View the 3D model.
The model allows you to rotate the pot, as if you were holding it – which is what you need to do to read the inscription, and – indeed – to have written it in the first place. The model should, therefore enable a more sophisticated contextual analysis of the inscription than hitherto possible, alongside the linguistic and graphic analysis of the runes (indeed, this will form part of Martin Findell's forthcoming book, arising from his Impact of Diasporas project). The potential of this type of technology for creating and sharing research and teaching tools is plain to see.
The researchers have written a blog for those interested in the methods used to create the model, and for more information about the pot and the inscription. From the blog, you can also download two PDF files containing scaleable, dynamic versions of the model, so that you can measure it, create cross sections, and use the model off-line.
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources now freely available online.
The project is delighted to announce that the text of the DMLBS has been made available under license to the Logeion project hosted by the University of Chicago and is now accessible via the Logeion interface.
The Logeion interface, which does not require a subscription of any kind, allows searching of all its many dictionaries by headword. (More advanced forms of searching across the DMLBS text are available via the subscription-based Brepolis.net platform.) We very much hope that medieval scholars across the world will appreciate this new way of accessing the dictionary. We would, of course, encourage users nevertheless to buy a copy of the printed dictionary as well!
Newberry Library French Renaissance Paleography Project now online
A self-help tool that provides integrated access to an archive of historically significant, visually captivating manuscripts held in the collection of the Newberry Library and other North American repositories. Via interactive maps, faceted browsing, and keyword searches, users can explore more than 100 French manuscript documents written between 1300 and 1700, page through a dozen historical calligraphy books, view a half-dozen historical maps, practice transcribing the documents, and more at the Paleography Project website.
British Library
Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Digitisation Master List (1429 items) is now available.