Huge congratulations to Marie Trenchant, a KCL PHD whose essay 'Reassessing Documentary Culture in Monastic Communities: The Case of a Largescale Project of Manuscript Production at Burton Abbey' won a prize from the Pipe Roll Society and will appear in the next issue of Thirteenth Century England.
There are just 2 weeks left to apply for our final award! One fully-funded Master’s Plus studentship is available for low-income and/or ethnic minority home applicants at Uni of Kent or KCL, and will fund the applicant through their MA and PhD. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/kno... #cfa #phd #medieval
He is giving Silver River – The link between Ob River silver artefacts and Novgorod’s Yugra campaigns at the Древняя Русь глазами молодых исследователей (Ancient Rus through the eyes of young researchers) conference at 10:50.
The link for more info is
ruslang.ru/conference/d...
He is giving The Riches of Midnight: The Novgorod Yugra Campaigns at the Ceræ Conference whose theme is Fame & Fortune.
The link for more information is:
ceraejournal.com/conference-i...
He also gave a paper last friday on Going Ushkuynik – River Piracy and the Politics of Making Trouble in Medieval Novgorod at the Háskóli Íslands Student Conference.
The link for more details is:
histudentconference.wordpress.com
Early this month our first year cohort and profs. Julia Crick and
@drdavidrundle.bsky.social visited Dr Eugenio Donadoni, specialist in western manuscripts at Christie's London, who spoke fascinatingly and showed us some gorgeous manuscripts under the hammer this summer.
Our phd student Ben Gray is giving two papers this Sunday 26 April based on his research into the Yugra campaigns, the titles are: 'Silver River – The link between Ob River silver artefacts and Novgorod’s Yugra campaigns' and 'The Riches of Midnight: The Novgorod Yugra Campaigns.' See links below.