Doctorant (M/F)

Job Description

Thesis Subject

The successful candidate will investigate, in the frame of the edition of the Abavus glossary family underway by the PI, the links between Saint-Amand under the abbatiat of Arn, Saint-Pierre de Salzburg (where he served as bishop after 793) and Saint-Emmeran of Regensburg at the beginning of the 9th century, regarding in particular the enrichment made of the glossary in three closely related copies.

Your Work Environment

The project entitled “Biblical Vocabulary and Classical Latin Side by Side: Expending Semantic Knowledge” aims to analyse the relationships between glosses, glossaries and commentaries, taking as its subject the study of biblical vocabulary. Glossaries such as Liber glossarum, the so-called Reichenau glosses, and Abavus maior claim to explain biblical vocabulary, for purposes that we assume are pedagogical rather than exegetical. Their content, alongside poetic words, primarily those of Virgil or Terence, shows Christian and biblical vocabulary. At the same time, biblical glosses were assembled in glossae collectae (collection of glosses following the word order of the text from which they are extracted) and common glossaries added typical words from lists and explanations drawn from mainly Jerome and Eucherius of Lyon (both having devoted works on biblical proper names and others Hebrew words).



Intitulé « Vocabulaire biblique et latin classique côte à côte : élargir les connaissances sémantiques », ce projet vise à analyser les relations entre les gloses, les glossaires et les commentaires, en mettant l'accent sur l'étude du vocabulaire biblique. Des glossaires tels que le Liber glossarum, les gloses dites de Reichenau et l'Abavus maior ont pour but d'expliquer le vocabulaire biblique, à des fins que nous supposons être pédagogiques plutôt qu'exégétiques. Leur contenu, outre des mots poétiques — principalement ceux de Virgile ou de Térence —, comprend du vocabulaire chrétien et biblique. Parallèlement, les gloses bibliques ont été compilées dans des glossae collectae (recueils de gloses classées selon l'ordre des mots du texte dont elles sont tirées), et les glossaires courants intégraient des mots typiques issus de listes et d'explications provenant principalement de Jérôme et d'Euchère de Lyon (qui ont tous deux rédigé des ouvrages sur les noms propres bibliques et d'autres mots hébreux).

Constraints and risks

This scholarship is funded through a Graduate Research Projects Scheme joining The University of Melbourne (Melbourne), The French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the University of Paris Cité.
The PhD includes a 12 month stay at Melbourne University.
The candidates should have knowledge of Latin, palaeography, study of mediaeval texts and textual transmission to be able to explore how commentaries and glossographical tools correspond within the cultural centres of the scriptoria of the early Middle Ages.

Les candidats doivent posséder des connaissances en latin, en paléographie, en étude des textes médiévaux et en transmission textuelle afin de pouvoir explorer la manière dont les commentaires et les outils glossographiques s'articulent au sein des centres culturels que constituaient les scriptoria du haut Moyen Âge.

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

2300 € gross monthly

Annual leave and RTT

44 jours

Remote Working practice and compensation

Pratique et indemnisation du TT

Transport

Prise en charge à 75% du coût et forfait mobilité durable jusqu’à 300€

About the offer

About the CNRS

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