About

The idea about this international workshop came when two PhD students, both working on theses that regard Alcuin of York, met in June 2017 at a conference in Fribourg, Switzerland, and soon became friends. The PhD students are Rebecca Schmalholz and Isabela Stoian. 

Rebecca Schmalholz comes from Germany. She has a Masters Degree in Classical Philology and History. She is currently working on a PhD-project supervised by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Scholz, Universität Zürich. Research topics are poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance, networks of scholars and a cultural history of Literature and Education. (See more about Rebecca here: 

https://www.hist.uzh.ch/de/fachbereiche/mittelalter/lehrstuehle/scholz/Team/Forschende/schmalholz.html)

Isabela Stoian comes from Romania. She has a BA in Classical Philology and MAs in Medieval Studies, Translation Studies and Biblical Exegesis. She is currently working on a PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Karin Schlapbach (University of Fribourg) and Prof. Florica Bechet (University of Bucharest). She is preparing a modern critical edition of Alcuin's Ars grammatica. Her main interests are Latin paleography, Carolingian education and grammar. (See more about Isabela here: http://www3.unifr.ch/directory/fr/people/198711/d5ede)


We kindly thank Prof. Karin Schlapbach (Fribourg) for having offered us the possibility to meet and for having encouraged us in our project.

You can also find further information about the conference on: https://www.hist.uzh.ch/de/fachbereiche/mittelalter/lehrstuehle/scholz/Team/Forschende/schmalholz/workshop_venerunt_apices.html