PhD Studentships in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the Open University (UK)

The Open University’s Medieval and Early Modern Research Group invites applications for October 2017 entry to its PhD programme.

The Medieval and Early Modern Research Group brings together staff from a variety of disciplines across Arts and Humanities at The Open University, including Art History, Classical Studies, English, History and Music. We have wide-ranging expertise in social, political, religious and cultural developments of the medieval and early modern periods.

We welcome applications for MPhil and PhD studies concerning the primary research interests of our group:

•People and objects in movement: courts and cities
•Symbolic and material witnesses: letters, objects, music and art
•Bodies: religion and medicine
•Elizabethan society: politics, religion, gender
•Uses of the arts, uses of knowledge: The Mediterranean and the Italian states
•Performance and performativity: music, theatre, poetry
•Intellectual, cultural and cross-cultural networks: patronage, production and intermediaries.

Further details of the PhD studentships and the application process can be found here: http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/medieval-and-early-modern-research/news/phd-studentships-deadline-11-january-2017

Please note that the deadline for all postgraduate research degree applications, including for studentships, is 11 January 2017.