Annonces de bourses doctorales à venir (candidatures au printemps 2026)
Onze bourses doctorales seront proposées au printemps prochain pour un début de contrat à l’automne 2026. Ces contrats sont proposés dans le cadre d’« EUARTHURS : European Arthurs, Medieval to Modern », le réseau de formation doctorale Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Mené par Raluca Radulescu (Bangor), le projet réunit une équipe de 6 pays : le Pays de Galles (Bangor), l’Islande (Sif Rikhardsdottir), l’Italie (Scuola Normale di Pisa – Lino Leonardi et Fabrizio Cigni), les Pays-Bas (Amsterdam – Marjolein Hogenbirk et Utrecht – Martine Meuwese), la France (Clermont-Ferrand – Sébastien Douchet, président de la branche française) et la Suisse (Zürich – Richard Trachsler). Il compte également 14 partenaires associés ou extérieurs engagés dans le suivi ou la formation.
En voici les principales informations dont nous disposons pour l’instant (en anglais):
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Note doctoral fellows will need to fulfil specific requirements for each project (in particular language requirements specific to the project and to the host country/institution). A full recruitment advert will be sent out in spring.
‘EUARTHURS: European Arthurs, Medieval to Modern’ Ref: 101226326 (2026-30) is a Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Doctoral Network project (c. 3 million euros) led by Raluca Radulescu from Bangor, with a team including 6 countries: Wales (Bangor); Iceland (Sif Rikhardsdottir); Italy (Scuola Normale di Pisa – Lino Leonardi and Fabrizio Cigni); The Netherlands (Amsterdam – Marjolein Hogenbirk and Utrecht – Martine Meuwese); France (Clermont – Sébastien Douchet); and Switzerland (Zürich – Richard Trachsler). The project includes c. 14 other associated/external partners involved in supervision and training.
It will employ 11 doctoral candidates (2 per host university, with 1 for Amsterdam), to start in September 2026. The doctoral projects are pre-defined (see brief outlines below) and respond to 2 main methodological strands – materiality (manuscripts, early printed books, monumental art) and mediality (post-medieval critical approaches including history of scholarship and editions). Doctoral co-supervision will be standard across all the different projects, with two supervisors assisted by a third external expert. The external board comprises Keith Busby, Helen Fulton, Ad Putter, and Frank Brandsma.
Added advantages of this scheme:
v Secondments (2 weeks to max. 2 months) across Europe in the publishing industry,
museums and galleries;
v Training events ranging from specialist manuscript and early print in location and at
specialist repository archives/libraries (Bangor, Amsterdam, Pisa, Zürich); working
with specialist and general collections, artefacts; working with the public in
institutions ranging from schools to the charities, etc.
v Training in non-academic environments, such as utilising local legend/monumental
art/media/creative industries to improve well-being and belonging to the local
community; contributing to the link between place and culture in specific locations,
and producing models of engagement with these themes elsewhere
Bangor PhD 1 (Main supervisor: Raluca Radulescu) focuses on the analysis of post-Geoffrey of Monmouth chronicle and prophecy in multi-text manuscripts in medieval Britain, alongside prose and verse Arthurian romances and other texts that accrue around them in multi-text multilingual manuscripts. The project, focused on one or more multi-text manuscripts from the British Isles, approaches the selection of the texts and their thematic groupings from the viewpoint of specific socio-cultural conditions, and localises the uses of Arthurian matter in the borders or peripheries of areas of linguistic contact. A cross-country, cross-linguistic dimension is also envisaged, i.e. a comparison with similar phenomena in medieval France. This project’s aims are to demonstrate the multi-generic and multi-thematic adaptation of Arthurian matter in changing historical and cultural circumstances.
Amsterdam PhD (Main Supervisors: Marjolein Hogenbirk, Martine Meuwese) focuses on the analysis of the development of planned presentation devices to guide the reader’s experience in Arthurian manuscripts from the Low Countries (Middle Dutch, German, Old French and Latin). The project’s aim is to investigate how such presentation devices (capitals, decoration, paragraphing) develop in different Arthurian genres and languages in this area, also in comparison to readerly guidance in other vernacular traditions. This will lead to a better understanding of how these texts may have been performed to or read by their diverse audiences over time.
Zurich PhD 1 (Main supervisor: Richard Trachsler) focuses on the transmission and adaptation of historical and prophetic texts derived from Geoffrey of Monmouth. It will, in particular, cover Italy, one of the few areas in Europe where Geoffrey of Monmouth’s work was not translated in the local vernacular, but replaced by new Merlin prophecies. It aims to uncover how authors built on Merlin’s authority to create new political prophecies and how readers attempted to decode them, specifically by examining glosses and annotations in the extant manuscripts.
Pisa PhD 1 (Main Supervisor: Fabrizio Cigni) focuses on the Tristan manuscripts dating back to the period between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. The project aims to rebuild a complete network of textual and figurative witnesses, in which philological and artistic analysis are conducted in an interdisciplinary way in order to understand the modes and channels of transmission of themes, characters and texts between England, France and Italy.
Pisa PhD 2 (Main Supervisor: Lino Leonardi) focuses on the transmission of Old French Arthurian literature in Italy between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. Depending on the candidate’s skills and interests, the project will focus on one of the following aspects: the manuscript transmission and translation from Old French into Italian (philological and codicological approach); the presence of Arthurian imagery in Italian literature (thematic approach); the influence of the narrative modes of French prose romance on Italian chivalric literature (narrative approach).
Zurich PhD 2 (Main Supervisor: Richard Trachsler) focuses on the analysis of the development of readerly practice in fifteenth-century manuscripts containing Old French Arthurian texts produced in Flanders. The project aims to investigate the differences between
the new Dutch manuscripts and those from earlier periods, as well as trace their potential relationship with Dutch and German manuscripts from the same area. Planned presentation devices aimed to guide the readers’ experience in these neighbouring traditions will subsequently be included in a comparative analysis, leading to a better understanding of how Arthurian texts may have been performed or read by their diverse audiences over time in different regions.
Iceland PhD 1 (Main Supervisor: Sif Rikhardsdottir) focuses on the intersections between gender configurations and emotive scripts in Thomas’s Tristan and its vernacular translations in other linguistic areas in Europe, including the British Isles and southern Europe. The project’s aims are to explore how such intersections configured gender identities and modelled behaviour for their subsequent reading communities.
Iceland PhD 2 (Main Supervisor: Sif Rikhardsdottir) focuses on Arthurian emotions and their transmission utilising Chrétien de Troyes’ romances as the base texts and exploring their secondary transmission, both material and literary in other European vernaculars. The project’s aims are to explore the evolution and the legacies of such emotional codes and practices in both literature and cultural artefacts, including visual imagery or medieval
artefacts.
Bangor PhD 2 (Main Supervisor: Raluca Radulescu) focuses on the interactions between and among Arthurian and non-Arthurian texts in multi-text manuscripts in the British Isles from the perspective of emotional scripts articulated in each text in an anthology, and across
texts in an anthology, comparing them with decipherable processes in similar manuscripts from the Continent, in France and/or Italy. It utilizes the history of emotions from the perspective of neuropsychology applied to the understanding of the medieval text.
Clermont Auvergne PhD 1 (Main Supervisor: Sébastien Douchet) examines the development of scholarly knowledge of Arthurian and Tristanian legends in the modern period, analyzing learned discourses on these subjects and focusing on key European scholars
and institutions. It aims to reveal how modern pre-positivist medieval studies contributed to the European diffusion of Arthurian narratives, and to their integration into European thought and culture.
Clermont Auvergne PhD 2 (Main Supervisor: Sébastien Douchet) explores the modern creative reception of the Arthurian and associated Tristanian legends through theatrical productions and textual creations. Its corpus is formed of archival sources, press, and literary criticism to examine the writing, staging, and reception of these works. By focusing on key European dramatists and productions, it aims to reveal the development of European pre-romantic medievalism.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Marie-Christine Payne (26 décembre 2025). Annonces de bourses doctorales à venir (candidatures au printemps 2026). Branche française de la Société Internationale Arthurienne (SIA). Consulté le 13 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/15f2g
