Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) is offering a fully funded PhD position as part of the Vidi research project ‘DISMANTLE: Disability and Mobility Aids in Northwestern-European Textual, Literary and Artistic Evidence, 1100-1500’. This innovative project, directed by Dr. K.A. Milne and co-supervised by Prof. dr. S.P.M. Bussels, aims to assemble and analyse a large corpus of medieval literary and visual representations of disability aids, such as crutches and walking sticks,...

This PhD position at Radboud University offers an exciting opportunity to join the ERC-funded CONSENT project, focusing on the theme of sexual consent in medieval European narrative songs. As a PhD candidate, you will conduct an independent research project within the CONSENT team, investigating how song texts from the Rhine-Maas-Lorraine region (c. 1300-1430) contributed to positive scenarios for behaviour in sexual relationships and the importance of mutual consent. The project aims to unveil ...