UPDATE: The bursaries scheme remains open to applicants. Until further notice, it will also entertain applications for financial support to obtain images of manuscripts from libraries or archives to which the applicant is unable to travel. In such cases, the Society expects i) that the applicant has exhausted any potential research funding from their own institution; and ii) that they have explored with the library or archive the possibility of making the reproductions available online for wider scholarly use. Preference may be given to applications that will result in online access.
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, broadly defined; but preference may be given to those who are members of the Society. The Society regrets that the Travel Research 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.
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| Joe Stadolnik |
University of Chicago, Postdoctoral Scholar |
Alchemy across Vernaculars in England, 1370-1520 |
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| 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''. |
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| Kathryn Peak |
DPhil candidate, St Cross College, Oxford |
The fourteenth and fifteenth century reception and transmission of De Consolatione Philosophiae in England |
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| Barbara Crostini |
Uppsala University (adjunct lecturer) |
John Geometres, In passionem Jesu Christi (BHG 418z): Critical edition with commentary and English translation |
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| Deborah Thorpe |
Visiting Research Fellow, University of York |
Old Hands: Ageing and the Handwriting of Medieval Scribes |
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| Sarah Macmillan |
Teaching Fellow in Medieval Literature, University of Birmingham |
The English Imitation of Christ |
| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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| Claudia Tardelli Terry |
Corpus Christi College Research Associate (Cambridge) |
The reception of the Classics in the "Studio Pisano": Francesco da Buti's 'Commentariolus super Persium' |
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| Arendse Lund |
Doctoral Candidate, University College London |
Law as Literature in the Vernacular Codes of Anglo-Saxon England |
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| Trevor Russell Smith |
Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds: PhD Candidate and PG Tutor |
The Long Anglo-Norman Prose 'Brut' Chronicle: Development and Dissemination |
| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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| Rachel Scott |
Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London |
The manuscripts of 'Calila e Dimna' in the Biblioteca de El Escorial |
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| James Dylan Sargan |
University of Oxford, visiting associate member |
Reading Practice in Early Middle English |
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| Sunny Harrison |
Institute for Medieval Studies (Leeds), Teaching Fellow in Medieval Studies |
The Theory and Practice of Horse Medicine in Late Medieval Italy |
| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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| Roisin Astell |
University of Kent, Doctoral Student in Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
A new way of Seeing and Reading in thirteenth and early fourteenth-century illuminated English and French manuscripts |
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| Victoria Shirley |
Teacher in English Literature, Cardiff University |
Geoffrey of Monmouth and Universal History |
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| Innocent Smith, op |
Universität Regensburg, PhD Candidate |
Doers of the Word: Bible Missals and the Celebration of the Eucharist in the 13th Century |
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| Carey Fleiner |
University of Winchester, Senior Lecturer in Classical and Early Medieval History |
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). |
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| Grace Greiner |
Cornell University, Doctoral Candidate |
Hybridity in the Archive: Rethinking “From Manuscript to Print” with Joseph Holland and Lisa Robertson |
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Amanda Bohne |
PhD Candidate, Notre Dame University |
Networks of Concern: Post-Mortem Care of the Soul in Medieval England |
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Benjamin Barootes |
Postdoc. Fellow, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto |
In nomine meo: The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Trinity College MS 8 |
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Jonah Coman |
PhD Candidate in Medieval Studies, SAIMS, University of St Andrews |
Medieval Collections Visit to East Coast of USA |
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Lisandra Costiner |
DPhil candidate in the History of Art, University of Oxford |
An Illuminated Italian Manuscript of the Meditationes Vitae Christi |
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Louise Tingle |
PhD Candidate, Cardiff University |
Royal Woman in Fourteenth-Century England |
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Vanessa Wright |
PhD Candidate, University of Leeds |
The Manuscript Context of Medieval French Cross-Dressing Literature |
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| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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Linne R. Mooney |
Professor, University of York |
The Bodmer Library MS 178 of John Gower's Confessio Amantis |
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Sophie Harwood |
Doctoral Candidate and PGR Tutor, University of Leeds |
Women and Warfare in the Romans d'Antiquité |
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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 |
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| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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Alexandra Lee |
University College, London |
Laude, Lucchese Confraternities and the Bianchi of 1399 |
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Mike Carr |
University of Edinburgh |
Manuscript Variants of the Epistola Morbosani Found in Budapest and Vienna |
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T. R. Smith |
Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
Conceiving Individuality and Emotions: English Rhetorical Approaches to War and Peace, 1327–77 |
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| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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Curran, Colleen |
Doctoral Student, King's College, London |
‘Bruxelles, Bibliotheque Royale, MS 8558-8563, fols. 80-131 and the introduction of Caroline minuscule in Britain’ |
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Gemmill, Elizabeth |
University Lecturer in Local History, Dept. for Cont. Ed., Oxford |
The manuscript register of John Salmon, bishop of Norwich 1299-1325 |
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Jordan, Alexandra |
Doctoral Student, University of Durham |
'Three unpublished versions of the ninth-century Latin Lives of St Melanius of Rennes' |
| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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Cooper, Charlotte |
Doctoral Student, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford |
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 |
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Harris, Katerina |
Ph.D. Candidate, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts |
Portraits at-death: Effigies in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy |
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Pitts, Brent A. |
Professor of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Meredith College |
‘La Terre des Sarazins: the amplified version’ |
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Reeves, Andrew |
Assistant Professor of History, Middle Georgia State College |
"The Nourishment of God's Word:" Inter caetera in England |
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| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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Adler, Gillian |
Doctoral Student, UCLA |
Chaucer’s dream-visions and their use of history |
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Bieniak-Nowak, Magdalena |
Assistant Professor, Warsaw University |
Stephen Langton’s Theological Questions and commentary on Romans |
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Delcorno, Pietro |
Doctoral student, Nijmegen |
Peregrinus cum angelo and Dante’s Commedia |
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Mincin, Elisabeth |
Doctoral Student, St. Andrews |
Byzantine heresy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries |
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Madrinkian, Michael |
Doctoral Student, Oxford |
‘Piers Plowman and the Manuscript Circulation of an East Anglian Pastoral Tradition’. |
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McVitty, E. Amanda |
Doctoral Student, Massey University, New Zealand |
‘Treason, Identity, and Political Subjecthood in England ca. 1380-1450’ |
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Watts, Steven |
Doctoral Student, St. Andrews |
‘The Correspondence of Jordan of Saxony and Diana d'Andalò’ |
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| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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Colwell, Tania |
Post-doctoral researcher, Australian National University, Canberra |
‘The Roman de Mélusine and the Fleurs des histories de l’Orient in a compilation manuscript’ |
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Gustaw, Chantal Jacqueline |
Graduate Student, St Andrews |
‘Pauline references in commentaries on Dante’s Commedia’ |
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Vukovic, Alexandra |
Graduate Student, Cambridge |
The Chronicles of Rus' |
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Yavuz, N. Kivilcim |
Graduate Student, Leeds |
‘Trojan Narratives in Frankish History, C.6-C.11’ |
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Collins, Alexander |
Graduate Student, Edinburgh |
‘A Study of Large Missals in Paris and Northern France’ |
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Knox, Philip |
Graduate Student, Oxford |
‘Biblioteca Riccardiana MS 2755 and English readers of the Roman de la Rose’ |
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Mannion, Anne |
Part-time Lecturer, Limerick |
‘Missale Vetus: Liturgy, Palaeography and Repertories in the Notated Missal EXcl 3515’ |
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Tarlazzi, Caterina |
Graduate Student, Padua / Paris IV Sorbonne |
Achard of St Victor and Walter of Mortagne’ |
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| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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Hickey, Helen |
Post-doctoral, Melbourne |
Tears and Emotion: Madame Sainte-Larme in Medieval and Early Modern England and France |
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| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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Brower, Susannah |
School teacher with PhD |
Research at BL on C13th commentaries on Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Amores |
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Connolly, Margaret |
Hon. Fellow, St Andrews |
Fifteenth-century manuscripts owned by the Roberts of Middlesex in the sixteenth century |
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Depnering, Johannes |
PhD student, Oxford |
The transmission of sermons attributed to Berthold von Regensburg (ca. 1210-1272) |
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Jordan, Alexandra |
MRes. student, Leicester |
Research in Rome on the Life of St Malo |
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Mancia, Lauren |
PhD student, Yale |
John of Fécamp’s Theory of Contemplation and the Origins of Devotion to a Suffering God |
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Stevenson, Kath |
Post-doc teaching assistant, Queen’s Univesrsity Belfast |
Anglophone reading communities in late medieval Ireland |
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Symons, Vicky |
PhD student, UCL |
Runes and roman letters in Old English literature |
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| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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Bourassa, Kristin |
PhD student, York |
Mirror for Princes for Charles VI of France |
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Flood, Victoria |
Unfunded PhD student, YorkPhD student, York |
Political Prophecy in the British Isles |
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Stone, Zachary |
Between degrees |
A Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Wadham College, Oxford |
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| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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Hartigan, Caitlin |
D.Phil. student, Oxford |
Manuscripts and incunables of Le Roman de la Rose |
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Johnston, Cynthia |
PhD student, London |
Thirteenth-century Oxford liturgical manuscripts |
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| Name | Status | Proposal | Bursary Report |
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Casey, Denis |
Post-doctoral, with no present affiliation |
Research on the Annals of the Abbey of Bangor at Marsh’s Library, Dublin |
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Hayden, Deborah |
Post-doctoral non-stipendary Research Associate, Cambridge |
Study of manuscripts of Auraicept na nÉces in Dublin |
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