Description: Henry Ravenhall, Early Career Researcher, Medieval French
Prior to my fellowship at Cambridge, I completed a six-month Postdoctoral Fellowship at Freie Universität Berlin with EXC Temporal Communities , where I undertook an individual research project called Making Sense/Making Time .
From April to August 2020, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with The Values of French project at King's College London. I was responsible for producing digital interpretive editions of two sections of the thirteenth-century French prose universal history, the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César.
I'm currently working on two book projects. The first, emerging out of my ERC-funded PhD research, is entitled The Anachronic Manuscript: Voices, Networks, and History in a Medieval French Book . In it, I develop the concept of the anachronic to articulate a new approach to medieval literature and history-writing based on the material object, the manuscript, as opposed to its heuristic abstraction, the text. The Anachronic Manuscript is centred on a thirteenth-century multi-text manuscript made in Sois