The University of Salamanca invites applications for two 3-years PhD Students positions to obtain a PhD degree in Medieval History, starting in August 2022. The positions are part of the project “PEOPLEANDWRITING: The Secret Life of Writing: People, Script and Ideas in the Iberian Peninsula” under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 850604), supervised by Dra. Ainoa Castro Correa.
Application period: 1 March 2022 to 30 June 2022.
Complete information at: https://sede.usal.es/tablon/anuncio/4984/
The PhD candidate will join the project “PeopleAndWriting – The Secret Life of Writing: People, Script and Ideas in the Iberian Peninsula” at the Department of Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary History at the University of Salamanca.
PeopleAndWriting investigates the connection between people of rural communities and the written word in the medieval Iberian Peninsula as a key instrument in forging long-lasting personal identities while shaping the interactions within and among social groups. We aim to look at the lives and work of ordinary laypeople and construct their social profile in relation to written communication for the first time, analysing how the introduction of writing and writing-based social practices changed society. To this end, PeopleAndWriting proposes the application of a novel and holistic approach beyond the state-of-the-art to study an overlooked corpus of written material: the extant tenth- to twelfth-century manuscript sources from the north-western Iberian Peninsula.
Full information about the project, including latest results and news can be found in the web page: https://peopleandwriting.wordpress.com
Candidates will be expected to conduct original primary research which will conclude with the production of a PhD thesis. The PI, with assistance from the rest of project members will provide training and will supervise and guide the students.
More information: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/751889
