Knowledge Orders before Modernity

Her paper, ‘Challenges of Stylometry and Word Frequency in Middle English Manuscripts’, discussed how the unique features of Middle English manuscripts impact stylometric analysis.

Congratulations to our @kingsartshums.bsky.social PhD student, Adrienne Green, who recently presented at the Emerging Digital Methodologies conference @jesusoxford.bsky.social +

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.

Tomorrow, we at the @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded Knowledge Orders before Modernity Doctoral Programme will have some exciting news for you... Keep those eyes peeled.

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

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

Veiled in Ink: Armenian Women in Manuscripts “When we think of medieval manuscripts in general, we may imagine male monastic scribes...”

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...

Corpus Palaeography: Machine Learning, Scribal Profiling and the Dating and Localisation of Manuscripts Containing Old English, c. 800–1200

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

Don't forget there's still time to join this! #palaeography #london #seminar #medieval

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...

Changing the Script: Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Tanner 10, Scribal Stints and the Question of Norms in Early 10th Century Manuscripts

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...

Attend online: Épinal-Erfurt Glossary Colloquium: "Early Latin–Old English Glossaries" - May 31-31
www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/%C3%A...

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...

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

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)

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

Many scripts, many scribes, many ways: the production of relic labels in the early Middle Ages

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's still time to apply to this project! CHASE-funded and part of @memsunikent.bsky.social at Kent!

Thank you!! All credit goes to the two supervisors and their wonderful project proposal.

We're glad to hear that!! There are a lot of exciting questions within our available PhD positions ;)

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

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

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

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

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