The Centre for Medieval Studies is one of the most successful Research Centres operating in the Arts and Humanities at Bristol. In the period 2022-2025, CMS members raised £5.6 million in external grant capture from a range of funders (including the. ERC, AHRC, Leverhulme, British Academy, and Marie Curie).
Recent Grants
Recent grants awarded to CMS members include:
- Marianne Ailes, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2022-2023, £52,933
- Helen Fulton, ERC Advanced Grant/UKRI Frontier Research Guarantee, ‘MOWLIT: The Medieval March of Wales, c. 1282–1550: Mapping Literary Geography in a British Border Region’ (2023–2028), £2,056,621
- Helen Fulton, GW4 Building Communities fund, ‘Medieval Studies Mobilising Digital Humanities’ (2025), £19,849
- Cathy Hume, AHRC RDE fellowship ‘Rewriting the Bible: Medieval Poems and Modern Audiences’, April 24 – September 25, £242,000
- Kate McClune, NERC Cross-Disciplinary Research for Environmental Discovery Science, “Levelling the Land: the Somerset Levels, wetland degradation, medieval archives”, £4096
- Stuart Prior and Kostas Trimmis, Heritage Fund Project Award, SWARP: South-West Anarchy Research Project, £111,165
- Ad Putter and Marianne Ailes, Marie-Curie Doctoral Training Network, ‘Remediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ (March 2023-February 2027). The Network provides funding for 13 PhD studentships across five Universities, with skills training and placements in collaboration with 9 non-HEI partners, UKRI share £560,000
- Ad Putter: Leverhulme Visiting Professorship 2024 (David Scott-Macnab, South Africa), 12.9K
- Sebastiaan Verweij, British Academy Midcareer Fellowship, ‘Place and Poetry in Premodern Scotland’, 2023/24, £128,109.85
- Leah Tether, Leverhulme Research Fellowship, ‘Unpublished: Medieval Literature and the Early Modern Publisher, 2023/24-2024/25, £62,600
- Brendan Smith and Mike Jones, Jean Golding Institute, University of Bristol, follow-on seed corn funding, ‘The Irish Receipt Rolls of Edward I: A Digital Humanities Approach’, £6,000
Projects
CMS staff members are involved in a range of exciting projects, as seen above. Scroll down to find out more about some of these projects!
South West Anarchy Research Project
‘SWARP aims to explore the heritage and aftermath of direct action, evidenced across a thousand-year span. The project focusses on four case studies that are linked with anarchy, direct action, social division and resistance in the South West. From The Anarchy period (1125AD-1153AD) site at Hartygrove, Alveston, the Bristol Castle, the Royal Fort in Bristol and the street art landscapes of Stokes Croft, SWARP is headed by Dr Stuart Prior at the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol and it is delivered in collaboration with Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Thornbury Museum.’
Read more about the project here.
Mapping the March: Medieval Wales and England, c. 1282–1550
‘Mapping the March: Medieval Wales and England, c. 1282–1550 aims to create the first holistic cultural history of the medieval March of Wales, the borderlands between Wales and England, occupied by a diverse population of Welsh and English speakers in the period between 1282 and 1550.’
Read more about the project here.