Missions

The assignment is part of the ANR-JCJC project 'PROSIT - Les traductions monastiques du Nord-Est: Une communauté textuelle à l'origine de la prose française'. The aim of the project is to study a group of prose translations, in Old French with a strong North-Eastern flavour, taken from Latin texts and produced in monastic environments in the second half of the 12th century (https://www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/recherche/les-programmes-de-recherche/prosit-prose-translation). The postdoc researcher will be responsible for the entire exploitation of a text from the corpus.

Activités

The postdoc recruited will be responsible for one text in particular, preserved in the ms Nantes, Musée Dobrée, 5. Nantes, Musée Dobrée, 5. The aim will be to provide a critical edition of the text, now unpublished, with an introduction, notes and glossary, comparing the Old French text with the Latin original. For this part of the work, the postdoc will have to look not only at the critical edition of the Latin text, but also at the Latin manuscript tradition. The editing of the text, the linguistic study and the compilation of the glossary will open up new scientific questions about the texts in the corpus, in particular those preserved in the Nantes collection, but not exclusively. Alongside a lexicon that is sometimes specific to these translations, the syntactic and stylistic convergences of these texts will be the subject of further research that may emerge from the editing work. At the same time, the postdoc will be helping to update the JONAS records (online directory of Oc and Oïl mss: https://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr) by contributing to the progress of research on all “monastic” translations. The postdoc will take part in team meetings and seminars. He/she may, with the agreement of the project leader, publish articles or give papers on the corpus, alone or in partnership with other project members. He/she will be able to manage his/her working time independently, in agreement with the project leader. Regular participation in the life of the laboratory is highly desirable.

Compétences

The tasks to be carried out by the postdoc require: Knowledge - Excellent knowledge of Old French, its diatopic and diachronic variation, and text-editing practices; - Good knowledge of classical and medieval Latin; - Skills in Latin palaeography; - Familiarity with twelfth-century spiritual literature, in Latin and Old French; - Fluency in writing codicological notes; - Knowledge of the specific bibliography relating to the theme studied within the project. Skills: - Good experience of working with manuscripts; - Fluency with IT tools and with the instruments needed for the philologist's job. People skills : - Ability to work in a team; - Autonomy; - Schedule management; - Ability to develop scientific questioning.

Contexte de travail

The work will be carried out mainly in Aubervillier, on the Campus Condorcet site (IRHT, Bâtiment Nord). The person recruited will be part of the IRHT's Romance Section; in particular, he/she will work under the scientific responsibility of Piero Andrea Martina, head of the PROSIT project, in collaboration with another person recruited as part of the same project. The project is being carried out within the Romanesque Section of the IRHT, a CNRS unit attached to the InSHS that is dedicated to the study of medieval manuscripts and the transmission of ancient texts (www.irht.cnrs.fr). The activities will involve working sessions in French libraries and abroad. Part of the working time may be telecommuted.

Contraintes et risques

Screen work.