A position as doctoral research fellow (post code 1017) is available at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK).
The position will be part of an ongoing history of ideas research project on traditions and conceptions of children and childhood in early Christianity (late antiquity and early medieval times). A central element in the project is the study of early Christian apocryphal infancy gospels. This is a very diverse material which had its roots in the second century CE, but which became widely disseminated culturally, geographically, in different languages, and through the centuries.
The object of the PhD. position will be research on this material.The doctoral project can be developed in different directions, for example oriented towards cultural history, tradition history, or social history. This will depend on the interests and qualifications of the PhD-student and on the requirements of the research project at large.
The position is available for a period of three years.
Doctoral research fellowship in early Christianity Studies
