Dr Ana de Oliveira Dias

Position

William Golding Junior Research Fellow  

Qualifications

BA and MRes (Lisbon)
PhD (Durham)

Academic Positions

Postdoctoral research associate, Faculty of History
William Golding Junior Research Fellow, Brasenose

Academic Background and Previous Positions

I studied art history (BA) and medieval history (Mres) at the Faculdade de Letras, University of Lisbon, and received my Ph.D. in medieval history from Durham University in 2019. Before joining the University of Oxford, I was a lecturer in early medieval history at Durham University (2021-2023) and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of English Studies (University of London) in the ERC-funded project ‘CULTIVATE MSS’ (2020-2021).
I was also a visiting researcher at the John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester (2020).

Undergraduate Teaching Areas

Late antique and early medieval history
Research methods
Culture and religion in medieval Iberia and western Europe

Graduate Teaching Areas

Palaeography and codicology
Visual and intellectual culture in the Middle Ages
Material culture studies
Research methods

Research Interests

• • Late Antique and Early Medieval History
• • Visual and intellectual culture of medieval Iberia and Continental Europe c. 300 CE – c.1200 CE
• • Manuscript studies
• • Monasticism and the cult of saints
• • Medieval theology and eschatology
• • Material culture studies
• • Digital Humanities and digital medievalism

Other

I am also very interested in public engagement activities and outreach

‘Being creative online – A Night at the Rare Books Auction’, Being Human – Festival of the Humanities Blog, April 2022
‘Unexpected treasures from Early Medieval Spain: the Visigothic manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’, John Rylands Research Institute and Library Blog, 9 September 2021

Publications

‘The most precious volume that has been sold for a century: the Golden Gospels and the manuscripts trade, c. 1880-1900’ [forthcoming Journal of Manuscript Studies]
‘Resonet Vox Fidelis: Scribal Colophons and Ecclesiastical Reform in Medieval Iberia’, Journal of Medieval History 50: 3 (2024), 312-332
‘The Iberian Peninsula and the trans-Pyrenean world: assessing cultural change through the representations of dress and horsemanship in manuscript illumination’, Anuario de Estudios Medievales 50: 2 (2020), 799–825

E-mail

[email protected]

Links

Faculty of History - Ana de Oliveira Dias