Bursaries

UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SOCIETY IS PAUSING ITS TRAVEL BURSARY SCHEME FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS AND IS NOT CURRENTLY OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS

The purpose of the Society's Research Travel Bursaries is to support relevant research by scholars, at any stage in their career, who are not in receipt of the requisite funding from other sources. The value of all grants is between £300 and £1000 (GBP). There are two application rounds each year, with the deadlines falling on 1st September and 1st March; applicants will be informed of the Society's decision within three weeks of the deadline.

Eligibility and Requirements: Bursaries are open to all scholars whose research falls within the interests of the Society; all applicants for Research Travel Bursaries must also be members of the Society. The Society regrets that the Research Travel Bursaries scheme cannot provide funding to attend academic conferences or other organized events. Successful applicants will be required to submit a report following their research trip, with accounts. The Society’s support should be acknowledged prominently in any subsequent publication, and the Society informed of these.

To apply, please click here.

Awardee Research
Aline Douma, (PhD Candidate, University of Groningen) George Ashby and the Lancastrian Cause in the 1460s: Dating the Active Policy of a Prince
Aikaterini Perdiki, (Art History PhD Candidate, University of York) A cross-cultural examination of Greek and Latin Medieval circular world maps:After the Greek translation of the ''Commentary on the Dream of Scipio''.
Joe Stadolnik, (Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago) Alchemy across Vernaculars in England, 1370-1520
Paul Strohm, Gillian Adler, (Assistant Professor of Literature, Sarah Lawrence College, New York) Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time in Medieval Life
Awardee Research
Barbara Crostini, (adjunct lecturer, University of Uppsala) John Geometres, In passionem Jesu Christi (BHG 418z): Critical edition with commentary and English translation
Charlotte Gauthier, (PhD researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London) Reading Marsilius in Late-Medieval England
James Parkhouse, (Recent graduate, University of Oxford) A Systematic Analysis of Alliterative Collocations in Eddic Poetry
Kathryn Peak, (DPhil candidate, St Cross College, Oxford) The fourteenth and fifteenth century reception and transmission of De Consolatione Philosophiae in England
Trevor Smith, (Postdoctoral Fellow, Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds) The Texts and Manuscripts of Ranulf Higden’s Polychronicon and Continuations
Awardee Research
Innocent Smith op, (PhD Candidate, Universität Regensburg) Doers of the Word: Bible Missals and the Celebration of the Eucharist in the 13th Century
A Progress through Academic Conference Funding for an Emerging Scholar
Victoria Shirley, (Teacher in English Literature, Cardiff University) Geoffrey of Monmouth and Universal History
Roisin Astell, (Doctoral Student in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent) A new way of Seeing and Reading in thirteenth and early fourteenth-century illuminated English and French manuscripts
Grace Greiner, (Doctoral Candidate, Cornell University) Hybridity in the Archive: Rethinking “From Manuscript to Print” with Joseph Holland and Lisa Robertson
Grace Catherine Greiner, (PhD Candidate, Cornell University) Experimentation in the Archive: Medieval and Modern Poet-Critics and the Making of New Media
Daniel Davies, (Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Pennsylvania) ‘Theorizing Literary Empire in Les Voeux du Paon (1312) and The Parlement of the Thre Ages (c.1350-90)’
Carey Fleiner, (Senior Lecturer in Classical and Early Medieval History, University of Winchester) Commemoration, Competition and Classical Reception in the Carolingian Court: the Poetry of Ermoldus Nigellus (c. 829). (Monograph under contract with Liverpool University Press, forthcoming 2024).
spring
Awardee Research
Brent Pitts, (Professor of Foreign Languages & Literatures; Director Honors Program, Meredith College) The Anglo-Norman Bible's book of Tobit
autumn
Awardee Research
James Dylan Sargan, (visiting associate member, University of Oxford) Reading Practice in Early Middle English
Rachel Scott, (Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London) The manuscripts of 'Calila e Dimna' in the Biblioteca de El Escorial
Sunny Harrison, (Teaching Fellow in Medieval Studies, Institute for Medieval Studies (Leeds)) The Theory and Practice of Horse Medicine in Late Medieval Italy
spring
Awardee Research
Arendse Lund, (Doctoral Candidate, University College London) Law as Literature in the Vernacular Codes of Anglo-Saxon England
Trevor Russell Smith, (PhD Candidate and PG Tutor, University of Leeds) The Long Anglo-Norman Prose 'Brut' Chronicle: Development and Dissemination
Claudia Tardelli Terry, (Research Associate, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) The reception of the Classics in the "Studio Pisano": Francesco da Buti's 'Commentariolus super Persium'
autumn
Awardee Research
Agata Zielinska, (PhD Student, UCL) The Institutionalisation of the Latin Church in Poland in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Lady Messengers and Youths in the Anonymous French La Queste del Saint Graal, the Perlesvaux and the Welsh Y Seint Greal
Dana Kovarik, (PhD Student, University College London) The Iconography of Costumes and Stage Effects of Late Medieval English Morality Drama as Reconstructed through Ecclesiastic Artwork
Deborah Thorpe, (Visiting Research Fellow, University of York) Old Hands: Ageing and the Handwriting of Medieval Scribes
Sarah Macmillan, (Teaching Fellow in Medieval Literature, University of Birmingham) The English Imitation of Christ
spring
Awardee Research
Jonah Coman, (PhD Candidate in Medieval Studies, SAIMS, University of St Andrews) Medieval Collections Visit to East Coast of USA
Vanessa Wright, (PhD Candidate, University of Leeds) The Manuscript Context of Medieval French Cross-Dressing Literature
Louise Tingle, (PhD Candidate, Cardiff University) Royal Woman in Fourteenth-Century England
Lisandra Costiner, (DPhil candidate in the History of Art, University of Oxford) An Illuminated Italian Manuscript of the Meditationes Vitae Christi
Benjamin Barootes, (Postdoc. Fellow, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) In nomine meo: The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Trinity College MS 8
Amanda Bohne, (PhD Candidate, Notre Dame University) Networks of Concern: Post-Mortem Care of the Soul in Medieval England
autumn
Awardee Research
LINNE R. MOONEY, (Professor, University of York) The Bodmer Library MS 178 of John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Sophie Harwood, (Doctoral Candidate and PGR Tutor, University of Leeds) Women and Warfare in the Romans d'Antiquité
Sophie Kelly, (PhD Candidate, University of Kent) Invention and Innovation: Unusual Images of / Unusual Influences on Trinitarian Iconography in BnF MS Français 14969, BnF MS Latin 12833 and Chartres Cathedral
spring
Awardee Research
T. R. Smith, ( University of Leeds) Conceiving Individuality and Emotions: English Rhetorical Approaches to War and Peace, 1327–77
Manuscript Variants of the Epistola Morbosani Found in Budapest and Vienna
Alexandra Lee, (University College, London) Laude, Lucchese Confraternities and the Bianchi of 1399
autumn
Awardee Research
Colleen Curran, (Doctoral Student, King's College London) ‘Bruxelles, Bibliotheque Royale, MS 8558-8563, fols. 80-131 and the introduction of Caroline minuscule in Britain’
Elizabeth Gemmill, (University Lecturer in Local History, Dept. for Cont. Ed., Oxford) The manuscript register of John Salmon, bishop of Norwich 1299-1325
Alexandra Jordan, (Doctoral Student, University of Durham) Three unpublished versions of the ninth-century Latin Lives of St Melanius of Rennes'
spring
Awardee Research
Charlotte Cooper, (Doctoral Student, St. Edmund Hall) Examination of manuscripts containing texts of Christine de Pizan in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Brussels, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and the Musée Condé Chantilly
Katerina Harris, (Ph.D. Candidate, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts) Portraits at-death: Effigies in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy
Brent A. Pitts, (Professor of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Meredith College) ‘La Terre des Sarazins: the amplified version’
Andrew Reeves, (Assistant Professor of History, Middle Georgia State College) "The Nourishment of God's Word:" Inter caetera in England
autumn
Awardee Research
Pietro Delcorno, (Doctoral student, Nijmegen) Peregrinus cum angelo and Dante’s Commedia
Elisabeth Mincin, (Doctoral Student, St. Andrews) Byzantine heresy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
Magdalena Bieniak-Nowak, (Assistant Professor, Warsaw University) Stephen Langton’s Theological Questions and commentary on Romans
Gillian Adler, (Doctoral Student, UCLA) Chaucer’s dream-visions and their use of history
spring
Awardee Research
Michael Madrinkian, (Doctoral Student, Oxford) ‘Piers Plowman and the Manuscript Circulation of an East Anglian Pastoral Tradition’.
E. Amanda McVitty, (Doctoral Student, Massey University) ‘Treason, Identity, and Political Subjecthood in England ca. 1380-1450’
Steven Watts, (Doctoral Student, St. Andrews) ‘The Correspondence of Jordan of Saxony and Diana d'Andalò’
autumn
Awardee Research
Tania Colwell, (Post-doctoral researcher, Australian National University, Canberra) ‘The Roman de Mélusine and the Fleurs des histories de l’Orient in a compilation manuscript’
Chantal Jacqueline Gustaw, (Graduate Student, St Andrews) ‘Pauline references in commentaries on Dante’s Commedia’
Alexandra Vukovic, (Graduate Student, Cambridge) The Chronicles of Rus'
N. Kivilcim Yavuz, (Graduate Student, Leeds) ‘Trojan Narratives in Frankish History, C.6-C.11’
spring
Awardee Research
Alexander Collins, (Graduate Student, Edinburgh) ‘A Study of Large Missals in Paris and Northern France’
Caterina Tarlazzi, (Graduate Student, Padua / Paris IV Sorbonne) Achard of St Victor and Walter of Mortagne’
Philip Knox, (Graduate Student, Oxford) ‘Biblioteca Riccardiana MS 2755 and English readers of the Roman de la Rose’
Anne Mannion, (Part-time Lecturer, Limerick) ‘Missale Vetus: Liturgy, Palaeography and Repertories in the Notated Missal EXcl 3515’
autumn
Awardee Research
Helen Hickey, (Post-doctoral, Melbourne) Tears and Emotion: Madame Sainte-Larme in Medieval and Early Modern England and France
spring
Awardee Research
Kath Stevenson, (Post-doc teaching assistant, Queen’s Univesrsity Belfast) Anglophone reading communities in late medieval Ireland
Vicky Symons, (PhD student, UCL) Runes and roman letters in Old English literature
Lauren Mancia, (PhD student, Yale) John of Fécamp’s Theory of Contemplation and the Origins of Devotion to a Suffering God
Alexandra Jordan, (MRes. student, Leicester) Research in Rome on the Life of St Malo
Johannes Depnering, (PhD student, Oxford) The transmission of sermons attributed to Berthold von Regensburg (ca. 1210-1272)
Margaret Connolly, (Hon. Fellow, St Andrews) Fifteenth-century manuscripts owned by the Roberts of Middlesex in the sixteenth century
Research at BL on C13th commentaries on Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Amores
autumn
Awardee Research
Kristin Bourassa, (PhD student, York) Mirror for Princes for Charles VI of France
Victoria Flood, (Unfunded PhD student, York) Political Prophecy in the British Isles
A Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Wadham College, Oxford
spring
Awardee Research
Caitlin Hartigan, (D.Phil. student, Oxford) Manuscripts and incunables of Le Roman de la Rose
Cynthia Johnston, (PhD student, London) Thirteenth-century Oxford liturgical manuscripts
autumn
Awardee Research
Research on the Annals of the Abbey of Bangor at Marsh’s Library, Dublin
Deborah Hayden, (Post-doctoral non-stipendary Research Associate, Cambridge) Study of manuscripts of Auraicept na nÉces in Dublin