26 January 2010
Just weeks after his award from the AHRC for his three-year project on Verse Forms in Middle English Romance, Professor Ad Putter has been successful in attracting another research grant. This time the funding body is the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA).
Through Professor Putter, the University of Bristol will be part of a consortium of Universities, along with the Universities if Utrecht, Vienna, and King's College London. This consortium has been awarded 999,560 Euros for a three-year research project on medieval manuscript miscellanies (Dutch, German, and English).
The other three principal investigators are Dr Bart Besamusca (Utrecht), Professor Matthias Meyer (Vienna), and Professor Karen Pratt (King's). The research programme, 'The Dynamics of the Medieval Codex', will consider changing trends in the compilation and organization of medieval miscellanies from a transnational perpective. The Bristol contribution to the project will focus on the role of Middle English romances in miscellanies, including multilingual manuscripts.
In addition to a centrally held research budget, some 140,000 Euros will come direct to Bristol to support the research efforts of Professor Putter and a part-time postdoctoral research assistant.