Becca Grose

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...

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...

I'm sorry you had to endure it! I used to live in York and it was a surprise when a TPE arrived on time! They're better now but definitely not going to win awards for arriving on time or at all.

Would definitely recommend Leeds airport! There's a good bus service and the taxis aren't too bad, especially if you find another medievalist to share with. Plus, you're not reliant on the TransPennine Express to M- a train so unreliable it got nationalised but still often gets delayed or cancelled.

#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

Congratulations! I know what's on my to-read list when I'm back at Tue!

2-year position for a woman - could be a medievalist!

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/

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

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!

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

‘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

'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

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. +

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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.

📣 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....

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...

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…

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!

And of course our amazing three moderators who kept incredible time and fought tech, heat and a bounty of questions, so we could sit back and enjoy listening!

Session: 1016 Newlyn Building: GR.07 Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, I: LANGUAGE Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Moderator: Guy Halsall, Department of Archaeology, Durham University 1016-a: Don't Offend the Queen: A Gendered, Narratological Analysis of the Death of Leudast (Language: English) Nelson Bennett, Department of Historical Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Wien 1016-b: Tamquam novus: Drawing Biblical Models into the Merovingian Present (Language: English) Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 1016-c: 'Excellentiae vestrae Christianitas': The Merovingian Queen, Her Roles, and Their Dynamics in 6th-Century Letters (Language: English) Julia Wilm, Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Session: 1116 Newlyn Building: GR.07 Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, II: POWER Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Moderator: Yaniv Fox, Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 1116-a: Venantius Fortunatus and the Exaltation of Feminine Figures of Power (Language: English) Amélie Belleli, Institut National de Recherche Archéologiques Préventives (INRAP), Paris 1116-b: Voices of the Populus: Gender and Epistolary Influence in Merovingian Episcopal Successions (Language: English) Anne Sieberichs, Departement Talen, Literatuur en Communicatie, Universiteit Utrecht 1116-c: History, Narrative, and Mutability in One Vita from Merovingian Gaul: A Woman for the Age or an Age for the Woman? (Language: English) Carole Ann Pinnington, Department of History, University of Liverpool

Session: 1216 Newlyn Building: GR.07 Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, III: TIME Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Moderator: John Merrington, All Souls College, University of Oxford 1216-a: Nocturnal Visions in the Hagiography of Aldegund (Language: English) Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland 1216-b: Two Anonymous Late Antique Women and a Moment in Time and Space (Language: English) Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign 1216-c: Beyond the Hour: Gendered Miracles and Temporal Distortions at Faremoutiers (Language: English) Yaniv Fox, Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan

Session: 1316 Newlyn Building: GR.07 Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, IV: MATERIALITY Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Moderator: Becca Grose, School of Classics, University of St Andrews Respondent: Shane Bjornlie, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College, California 1316-a: Perpetual Presents: The Sarcophagus of Chrodoara and the Miraculous Temporalities of Women Donor-Saints (Language: English) May Peterson, Department of Art History, University of Chicago 1316-b: Fabricating Gender: Textiles in Late Antique Literature (Language: English) Hope Williard, Departement Talen, Literatuur en Communicatie, Universiteit Utrecht

This was so fun! I enjoyed the papers + micrunning too much to take photos, but immense gratitude to @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social and @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social for taking this forward, all speakers for their diversity of gendered approaches + Shane for showing how weird the Merovingians were.

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

@lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social :)

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

Utrecht is beautiful! I did my MA there - so you've picked a great place to do it!

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!

@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!