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Late antiquity, epistolography, manuscripts | Humboldt Fellow in Bamberg. Research Associate at the University of Vienna and KU Leuven. Former Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellow in Classics at the University of Edinburgh

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Research Associate โ€“ 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.

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...

10.09.2025 08:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Meet our team! Starting today: Maria S. Thomas

The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at
โ€ช@dekayra.bsky.socialโ€ฌ

01.09.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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There is a new Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna, offering both Senior and Early-Career 1-year fellowships for 2026/27. Deadline 1 Sept 2025.
Might be interesting for someone out there. vicas.univie.ac.at/

07.07.2025 22:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
TeTra | Book in the Spotlight: Sofia Puchkova, Re-envisioning of Mopsuestiaโ€™s Exegesis (2024)
YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar TeTra | Book in the Spotlight: Sofia Puchkova, Re-envisioning of Mopsuestiaโ€™s Exegesis (2024)

Here's the recording of the event!

03.07.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The next TeTra event is another Book in the Spotlight, this time with Sofia Puchkova. Discussant is Samuel Fernรกndez (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile).
Tuesday 1 July at 4PM CET, don't miss it!
If you are not yet on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social

24.06.2025 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

It's tomorrow!

30.04.2025 06:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Four-year postdoc in Syriac studies in Vienna.

Join my team in the FWF START Project "Generative Authority: The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters," genaut.univie.ac.at/

Deadline June 1st. Happy to respond to any inquiries!

@fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

17.04.2025 11:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
04.04.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Original post on fedihum.org

Bookmarked: From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus โ€“ The Digital Orientalist https://digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/18/from-vienna-to-the-world-launching-the-first-public-syriac-htr-model-on-transkribus/ #HTR_Syrisch_Transkribus Todayโ€™s post is [โ€ฆ]

25.02.2025 07:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This Friday in Edinburgh. Do come along if you are around and you have a thing for letter collections!

19.02.2025 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Summer School in Salzburg, Austria, June- 30 July 4, 2025. On Biblical Manuscripts and Their Use in Biblical Studies: The Hebrew, Greek, Latin Texts of Joshua: โ€œThe Jericho story."

11.02.2025 12:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Effort.

#medievalsky

@britishlibrary.bsky.social Arundel 38, f. 65r

12.02.2025 07:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A screen grab of the latest nine recorded papers of the TeTra Research Seminar.

A screen grab of the latest nine recorded papers of the TeTra Research Seminar.

We've recently passed our one hundredth events mark. More than half of the papers and all lectures are available on our Youtube channel.

www.youtube.com/@TeTraSemina...

08.02.2025 11:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Call for applications: LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2025โ€“2026

Heads up Late Antiquity folks. KU Leuven Fellowships: www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...

08.02.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Accepting applications for Introduction to Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 7 to August 1, 2025, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Application deadline: February 24, 2025
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/int...

10.12.2024 15:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
Visiting fellowships in Leuven.

Visiting fellowships in Leuven.

Visiting Fellowships in Leuven, if you were looking for one. They basically offer a travel subsidy and accommodation for 4-6 weeks.

www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...

07.02.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Epistolae Epistolae is a collection of letters to and from women in the Middle Ages, from the 4th to the 13th century. The letters, written in Latin, are linked to the names of the women involved, with English ...

A great resource :)
โ€œEpistolรฆ: Medieval Women's Lettersโ€ฆ a collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women. The letters collected here date from the 4th to the 13th centuries, and they are presented in their original Latin as well as in English translation...โ€ (epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu)

04.02.2025 10:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 75    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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PhD Scholarships at the Faculty of Theology, including Centre of African Studies

Two fully funded 3-year PhD scholarships at the Faculty of Theology in Copenhagen. Please share widely! #PhD #Theology #UCPH
employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

31.01.2025 10:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thank you!

30.01.2025 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Could you add me as well? Thank you.

30.01.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access - Leiden University The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini, is now available in open access via the Digital ...
24.01.2025 08:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 101    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
The book cover, front and back, for "Unruly Books: Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts," edited by Esther Brownsmith, Liv Ingeborg Lied, and Marianne Bjelland Kartzow

The book cover, front and back, for "Unruly Books: Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts," edited by Esther Brownsmith, Liv Ingeborg Lied, and Marianne Bjelland Kartzow

Today marks the publication of Unruly Books: Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts, edited by myself, Liv Ingeborg Lied, and Marianne Bjelland Kartzow! We delve into "unruly books" of antiquity and what they tell us about how people have understood booksโ€”then and now.

23.01.2025 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Jonatan Pettersson and Anna Blennow (eds.): Models of Change in Medieval Textual Culture (2024).

Jonatan Pettersson and Anna Blennow (eds.): Models of Change in Medieval Textual Culture (2024).

#openaccessmiddleages

Jonatan Pettersson and Anna Blennow (eds.): Models of Change in Medieval Textual Culture (2024).

Link:
www.degruyter.com/do...

#medieval

22.01.2025 17:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
TeTra | Ted Erho "A letter of Alexander I of Alexandria preserved in Ethiopic"
YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar TeTra | Ted Erho "A letter of Alexander I of Alexandria preserved in Ethiopic"

For those who missed it, the recording of Ted Erho's paper onthe Ethiopic version of Alexander I of Alexandria's letter is now up on our YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6gU...

21.01.2025 08:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The day after tomorrow! There is still time to register!

13.01.2025 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Le plus sympathique portrait d'รฉvangรฉlistes du Moyen ร‚ge : saint Matthieu, dans des รฉvangiles bretons de la fin du 9e siรจcle (Boulognes-sur-mer, ms. 8, f. 8).

08.01.2025 21:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 108    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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๐—ข๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฑ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€
๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฅ๐™ช๐™จ ๐™‰๐™–๐™ฏ๐™ž๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฏ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ช๐™ข ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฅ๐™ช๐™จ ๐˜ฟ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ฎ๐™จ๐™ž๐™–๐™˜๐™ช๐™ข
Edited by Caroline Macรฉ

๐˜ˆ๐˜ญ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜–๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด

More info: bit.ly/3yfrADs

#ChurchFathers #Literature #Religion #Medievalsky #Medievalists #GreekLiterature #EarlyChristianity #ChurchHistory

13.01.2025 07:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Some recycled music used as binding material in the Canongate Burgh Court Books, ECA SL150/1/3, 1577-1580.

14.01.2025 08:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
โ€˜Etched into the Soulโ€™: The Education of Shorthand-Writers in Late Antiquity | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core โ€˜Etched into the Soulโ€™: The Education of Shorthand-Writers in Late Antiquity - Volume 114

Check out @ellakirsh.bsky.social 's fantastic article on the teaching of shorthand writing to often enslaved people in the later Roman empire - just published open access in the latest issue of the Journal of Roman Studies
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

14.01.2025 09:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures Palimpsests are manuscripts whose original content has been erased, scraped away, washed off and later overwritten. In their lower layers, they often contain unique versions of texts โ€“ including those...

Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures Edited by Jost Gippert, Josรฉ Maksimczuk, and Hasmik Sargsyan @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #openaccess www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

07.01.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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