Research Fellow ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’
Queen’s University Belfast – School of History and Anthropology

Location: Belfast
Salary: £31,656 to £34,576 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary: This post is available from September 2016 to August 2020.
Job Ref: 16/104463

The university is seeking to recruit a Research Fellow to contribute to the European Research Council project ‘War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe’, under the direction of Dr Ian Campbell as Principal Investigator (PI). The research project aims to bring an improved understanding of the debates inside the Catholic and Protestant universities on faith and warfare to bear on religious warfare in early modern European culture more widely. How might we distinguish religious warfare from other varieties of warfare in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when no secular category existed, and contemporaries divided their cosmos between the natural and the supernatural?

The Research Fellow will be responsible for the completion of a parallel-text translation of extracts from early modern Calvinist scholastics (including Lambert Daneau and David Pareus) on faith and warfare, and also responsible for the completion of a personal research project which will result in a monograph on the relationship between faith and warfare in the early modern Protestant world..

The project research team will comprise two research fellows, one specialising in Catholic Europe, the other specialising in Protestant Europe, a PhD student who will examine the reception of Calvinist scholastic texts outside the universities, and the PI, who will write a history of early modern Scotist political thought.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANE093/research-fellow-war-and-the-supernatural-in-early-modern-europe/

Applications close: 4 April, 2016.