Knowledge Orders before Modernity

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 #Cambridge

This year’s Anselm Lecture is coming up soon! We are very excited to welcome Professor Alice Taylor to speak to us about medieval pretence in political thinking. More information can be found on our website and we look forward to seeing you all there!! #mems #medieval #ukc

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/ @e_c_roberts komldsp.org.uk/projects/remem… #phd #cfa

PhD opportunity with @RMMPerry & @lawrencewarner! 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

Don't forget that you have until the 27th of February to apply to our PhD projects. Check the full list and conditions here komldsp.org.uk/projects/ or refer to our older posts. The projects are a collaboration between two institutions (King's College & Uni 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

There's still time to apply to this wonderful PhD project: CHASE-funded and also part of @mems_ukc !

This past Wednesday, our cohort visited the London @Quaritch 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

Apply to our 2nd PhD project (see full list & DL here: 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 #cfa #phd

Yesterday, the cohort was able to meet online with the authors/editors of "Unprinted: Publication Beyond the Press", Daria Kohler & Daniel Wakelin. If you'd like your afternoons to be like this, make sure you apply to our PhD positions (DL: 27 Feb, noon) by checking our posts

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 & apply: komldsp.org.uk/projects/edi... #cfa #phd

The Knowledge Orders cohort, kindly joined by Prof. Julia Crick and @DrDavidRundle, 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.

Email bookscapes@kent.ac.uk to book a place on our trip to @UniEssexLibrary, @ThomasplumeS and @CCathedral on 17th-18th February. Overnight accommodation will be provided, but spaces are limited so sign up ASAP and before 30th January!

Our ad is up on findaphd.com! See the ad here: findaphd.com/phds/program/l… Knowledge Orders is an innovative collaboration between @KingsCollegeLon and @mems_ukc & the deadline for these 6 PhD positions is 27th of February, 2025 (noon). #cfa #phd #komldsp #research #uk

Happy New Year! We are starting 2025 with an entry about the open PhD positions available with the support of @LeverhulmeTrust via a collab between @mems_ukc and @KingsCollegeLon Read all about it here: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-early… #PhD #cfa #open #postgraduate

Knowledge Orders would like to extend the Season's Greetings to those celebrating, & a Happy New Year! Wishing you a relaxing holiday with your loved ones. Hopefully, some of you will have a look at our #cfa over here komldsp.org.uk/projects, and add a #phd to your 2025 list.

New projects with @mems_ukc available now on komldsp.org.uk/projects/ Includes an open call. How exciting is that? Check them out! Deadline 27th February 2025, 12:00. #phd #cfa #callforapplication #komldsp #kent #universityofkent #kingscollegelondon #kings #london #academia

Besides the six projects advertised (see komldsp.org.uk & @mems_ukc ) there is also an open call! You can propose a project which sits within one or more of our four broad themes, and which our large team, across our two institutions, has the expertise to supervise #phd

This is the day! New projects available now on komldsp.org.uk/projects/ for five lucky future PhDs. Four projects will be based at Kent while one at King's. Waste no time and check them out as they are set to begin in the autumn of 2025 #phd #cfa #callforapplication #komldsp

@AlisAnisia Iacob is a PhD funded by @LeverhulmeTrust in the Knowledge Orders programme. Her research focuses on the material reception of the Reformation in early modern anti-Trinitarian church interiors, analyzing theology's relationship with craftsmanship #phd #komldsp #kent