ERC ADVANCED GRANT 2020 AGRELITA - THREE POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

The ERC Advanced grant project AGRELITA “The reception of ancient Greece in pre-modern French literature and illustrations of manuscripts and printed books (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities”, newly awarded (2021), led by Prof. Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, is now accepting applications for 3 postdoctoral positions (100 %), starting on 01/10/2024.

AGRELITA is based at the University of Caen Normandy and is scheduled to conclude on 30th September 2027.

Contract duration: 12 months, renewable.

Remuneration: Approximately €2800 gross/month.

PROJECT

Until now the reception history of ancient Greece (before Alexander the Great) in pre-modern Western Europe has focussed almost exclusively on the transmission of Greek texts. Yet well before the revival of Greek’s teaching, numerous vernacular works, often illustrated, contained elaborate representations of ancient Greece. AGRELITA studies a large corpus of French-language literary works (historical, fictional, poetic, didactic) produced from 1320 to the 1550s in France and Europe, before the first direct translations from Greek to French, as well as the images of their manuscripts and printed books. The study of these works and their illustrations (text and image’s dialogue and powers of each) analyzes the representations of ancient Greece from the unexplored perspective of the elaboration of a new memory. French works and their manuscript and print illustrations are studied in relation to their political, social and cultural context, as well as in relation to works and their illustrations in related European literature. Situated at the frontiers of literary studies, book and art history, visual studies, cultural and political history and memory studies, AGRELITA proposes a re-evaluation of the role played by ancient Greece in the processes of identity formation in Western Europe. The project also aims to contribute to a general reflection on the formation of memories, legacies and identities.

The project is presented on the website:

https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/

TASKS

The three postdoctoral researchers will analyse the texts and images of AGRELITA’s corpus. They will work with the Principal Investigator, the project manager, associate researchers and guest researchers.

Main Tasks:

- The analysis of an already identified corpus of texts from the 14th, 16th and 16th centuries and the identification of new texts that contain representations of ancient Greece (texts available in the form of modern editions or from manuscripts and prints from the 14th - 16th centuries, whether digitised or not)

- The collection of data and the drafting of notes on the texts, authors, artists, manuscripts, prints, and Greek data present

- The scientific analysis of textual and visual representations of ancient Greece, of the links between texts and images

- The production of original scientific articles, which will be published in the collective volumes of AGRELITA and in specialised journals, in French

- Representing the AGRELITA project at external conferences and study days in France and abroad, and publishing the papers

- Contributing to an anthology of texts and images (in collaboration with the whole team)

- Participating in all AGRELITA activities: weekly team meeting in Caen, monthly seminar, workshops, conferences…

- Contributing to the scientific organisation of these seminars, study days, colloquia; identifying colleagues to be invited, making contacts...

- Contributing to the reception of invited researchers

- Contributing to the editing of the planned collective volumes (proofreading, correction, formatting of manuscripts sent to publishers)

- Contributing to the website and the blog

- Contributing to the reflection on the implementation and development of AGRELITA