Our colleague's yesterday paper recording. Enjoy!
@madalinatoca
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
Our colleague's yesterday paper recording. Enjoy!
GenAut talks | Maria S. Thomas, "Publishing in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Monastery: Manuscript Production, Authority, and Scribal Practice at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem," Thursday 26 February, online. @dekayra.bsky.social.
Congrats to our collaborators @worldlyscribe.bsky.social, Giorgia Nicosia, @madalinatoca.bsky.social, and Adrian Pirtea for their articles in the newly published thematic issue of the Journal of Eastern Christian Studies (co-edited by Marion).
Several in Open Access!
brill.com/view/journal...
The first talk of this years online seminar: Jakob Engberg, "The Care for the Remains of Polycarp in the Martyrdom of Polycarp in its Second Century Context."
Tuesday, 17 February (10 AM CET)
β’Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contextsβ’
genaut.univie.ac.at
The programme of the 2026 GenAut online seminar, with the general theme "The Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts." It can be found online at https://genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671.
We're thrilled to share with you the programme for the 2026 online seminar of the project! The series is curated by our colleague Maria S. Thomas (@dekayra.bsky.social).
All welcome! Let us know if you'd like to add you to the email list. genaut.univie.ac.at/?page_id=671
Warm congrats to our colleague Giorgia Nicosia for being awarded one of the Research Awards of the Associazione Internazionale di Studi Tardoantichi. Find her in the ceremony photo!
studitardoantichi.org/en/2025/11/2...
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...
Meet our team! Starting today: Maria S. Thomas
The GenAut Project: "The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters" genaut.univie.ac.at
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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/
Here's the recording of the event!
The next TeTra event is another Book in the Spotlight, this time with Sofia Puchkova. Discussant is Samuel FernΓ‘ndez (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
It's tomorrow!
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
Bookmarked: From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus β 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 Todayβs post is [β¦]
This Friday in Edinburgh. Do come along if you are around and you have a thing for letter collections!
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: βThe Jericho story."
Effort.
#medievalsky
@britishlibrary.bsky.social Arundel 38, f. 65r
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...
Heads up Late Antiquity folks. KU Leuven Fellowships: www.kuleuven.be/lectio/visit...
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...
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...
A great resource :)
βEpistolΓ¦: Medieval Women's Lettersβ¦ 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...β (epistolae.ctl.columbia.edu)
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...
Thank you!
Could you add me as well? Thank you.
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 booksβthen and now.
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
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...