Medieval History
Recent ASNC news ...
Congratulations to Dr Levi Roach and Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes (both of whom studied ASNC at undergraduate and postgraduate level), who have both been appointed to lectureships in Medieval History at the University of Exeter.
Indeed, further congratulations are due to Levi for recently winning the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize for his article ?Public Rites and Public Wrongs: Ritual Aspects of Diplomas in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England?,
Early Medieval Europe 19 (2011), 182-203.
Also, congratulations to Emily Lethbridge who has been awarded a 3-year post-doc at the new Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Iceland.
Some members (past and present) of the ASNC Department were signatories to a letter in the Irish Times protesting the proposed destruction of Carraig Breac House, former home to Celtic scholar Whitley Stokes (1830-1909). The subsequent decision not to grant permission for the demolition led to this article by Irish Times environment editor, Frank McDonald.
And finally, Dr Elizabeth Boyle has been causing trouble, as usual ...
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More Recent Asnc News
Dr Brittany Schorn has been appointed Research Associate on the Interpreting Eddic Poetry project at St John's College Research Centre, University of Oxford, from 1st October 2013. Dr Elizabeth Boyle has been appointed Lecturer in Early Irish at the...
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New Book!
Elizabeth Boyle and Paul Russell, both of the Department of ASNC, have recently published a volume of essays on the life and scholarship of the Celtic scholar and colonial jurist, Whitley Stokes (1830-1909). The volume arises from the conference which...
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Congratulations!
Congratulations to a number of ASNCs who have receieved various awards and prizes in recent weeks: At the end of May, Dr Rory Naismith became the youngest recipient (at the age of 27) of the Blunt Prize, awarded by the British Numismatic Society, for...
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Asnc Awarded Junior Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Levi Roach, a PhD student in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, and a member of Trinity College, Cambridge, who has just been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, beginning in...
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Congratulations
Congratulations to Dr Denis Casey who has won the 2010 Irish Chiefs' Prize in History, which is awarded by the Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains in association with the History Department of Trinity College, Dublin and History Ireland magazine....
Medieval History