Last year, 2025, we again supported three promising scholars with research scholarships at the MGH Munich institute
Jonathan Dell Isola, Candidate for the Doctorate of Medieval History an der Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.), used his two-month scholarship to work in Munich on his research project „Political Practice and Dynastic Tradition in the Reign of Arnulf of Carinthia (887-899)“. In particular, he profited from the use of the MGH library and the chance to study the relevant charters in original in the Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv: „I have now been able to view about seventy-five percent of Arnulf’s surviving originals. The MGH library also contains numerous specialized studies, in particular, on diplomatics. These works are either inaccessible to me in US libraries, or would be substantially more difficult to acquire. I could also be fully immersed in the project, which has allowed me to make substantial progress on the draft article.“
Supported by the MGH Friends Association Pro arte edendi – Freunde der MGH e. V.
Alice Sacco is a Ph.D. student at the Università di Siena / Italy. She is working on a new critical edition of the Latin translation of Hippocrates‘ treatise „De natura pueri“ by Bartholomew of Messina, written between 1258 and 1266. In her one-month scholarship at the Munich institute of the MGH, she was able to focus on the manuscript tradition of the text in Munich manuscripts and the person of Hartmann Schedel, a Nuremberg Humanist and doctor who owned one of Europe’s largest libraries around the turn of the 16th century.
Supported with an Arno Borst Scholarship
Maria Theresa Weidinger is a research assistant at the department for Medieval history of the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and is writing her Ph.D. thesis on Medieval „Himmelsbriefe“, letters said to have been written in heaven. During her one-month scholarship at the MGH, she examined and edited extant copies of such letters and collected reports about them, for example in narrative texts, in order to trace their transmission and reception.
Supported with an Arno Borst Scholarship