Daily Archives: 16 June 2016

University of Oxford, Postdoctoral Researcher (2 Positions): Music and Late Medieval Court European Cultures – Call For Applications

University of Oxford – Faculty of Music
Postdoctoral Researcher – Music and Late Medieval Court European Cultures

Location: Oxford
Salary: £30,738 to £33,574 Grade 7 p.a.
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary

The Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, proposes to appoint two postdoctoral researchers for a period of 4 years, starting 1 September 2016, to work on a new ERC funded Advanced grant, Music and Late Medieval European Court Cultures (MALMECC). The posts will be on a Grade 7 (salary in the range £30,738 – £33,574 p.a.) and will be based in the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities office (TORCH), Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford.

Reporting to the project’s Principal Investigator (PI), Karl Kügle, the postdoctoral researchers will pursue an individual research project within their specific selected sub-project, in collaboration with the project team. They will be expected to collaborate with all members of the team and participate in the preparation of relevant research publications, as well as representing the project at internal and external meetings, contributing ideas and engaging in dissemination. The project seeks to develop a new, post-national and trans-disciplinary method of studying pre-modern cultures; specifically, the focus will be on European courts of the ‘long’ fourteenth century, defined as 1250 – 1450. The project will consist of systematic collaboration of a team of scholars drawn from relevant disciplines (including but not limited to history, art history, architectural history, modern and classical languages, music) under the leadership of the PI.

Applications are welcome from candidates with a PhD or equivalent and research experience in a relevant discipline for the period 1250 – 1450. In addition, ability and willingness to collaborate across the disciplines of musicology and medieval studies will be essential, along with high level competencies in at least one other relevant language.

Candidates may apply for any one of the following sub-projects: (1) the effects of gender and lineage on patronage in Northwestern Europe; (2) the courts of ecclesiastic princes in France and Southern Europe; (3) the artistic patronage of the Luxembourgs in Germany and the Czech lands; (4) the politics of prince-bishop Pilgrim II of Salzburg and the songs of the ‘Monk of Salzburg’.

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Wednesday 6 July, 2016.

For full information and to apply, please visit: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=123798.

University of East Anglia: Senior Research Associate in Early Modern History – Call For Applications

University of East Anglia – School of History
Senior Research Associate in Early Modern History

Location: Norwich
Salary: £31,656 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary. Two-year full-time position from October 2016

Inner Lives: Emotion, Identity and the Supernatural, 1300-1900: www.innerlivesblog.com

This post is a two-year full-time postdoctoral research associateship to participate in a major research project (2015-18) funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The principal investigator is Professor Malcolm Gaskill; the co-investigators are Dr Sophie Page (UCL), covering the medieval period, and Professor Owen Davies (Hertfordshire), covering the modern.

The successful applicant would be based in the School of History at the University of East Anglia. He/she would assist Prof. Gaskill with his work on witchcraft in the Anglo-American world and the history of emotions, while also furthering his/her own research and publication plans. A doctorate in early modern history is an essential requirement, as is proficiency in using sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manuscripts and printed sources. Expertise in the history of emotions and/or the history of witchcraft would be especially welcome.

The research associate would also be expected to help with the project more widely, including overseeing the website and social media, writing and commissioning blog posts, drawing together ‘inner lives’ methodologies to write an article for publication, helping with a planned exhibition, and organising an international conference in 2018.

The research associate will be entitled to funds from the project research budget to cover expenses related to the project and to his/her own work.

Closing date: 12 noon on 28 June, 2016.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.uea.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/research/-/asset_publisher/62h7ppZT4QgW/content/senior-research-associate-in-early-modern-history