VACANCIES: MSCA Doctoral Network – “TESTAMENT” – 6 PhD Positions (DEADLINE 20 APR 2026)

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Within the MSCA Doctoral Network “TESTAMENT” (No. 101226689), we are currently looking for six Doctoral Candidates (DCs). The DCs will be focusing on the interplay between societal dynamics, learned law (ius commune), and testamentary freedom in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. This research consortium brings together researchers from five universities (KU Leuven, Jagiellonian University Cracow, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Charles University Prague, University of Warsaw) and several associated partners. The consortium offers ample learning opportunities, through summer/winter schools, through a research stay at another partner, and through an internship with a museum or an archive. Thus, highly recommended!

 

Important: Since this is a EU-funded project, we are looking for candidates who have not resided or carried out their main activity in the country of the recruiting university for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their recruitment.

 

Are you willing to leave your home country and start working as a DC in law or history at a foreign university? Then, this is your chance!

 

(i)                  DC1: KU Leuven – History - generational dynamics and property transfers in urban families in late medieval Brabant

(ii)                 DC2: University of Warsaw – History - Testators and their families in early modern Warsaw

(iii)               DC3: Charles University Prague – Legal History - Membership of the Hussite movement and last wills in the Kingdom of Bohemia

(iv)               DC4: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena – Legal History - Role of jurists and interest groups in the preparation of manorial legislations on last wills in Saxony

(v)                 DC5: KU Leuven – Legal History - Joint last wills of spouses in Leuven

(vi)               DC6: Jagiellonian University Cracow – Legal History - Last wills of professors - overlapping legal orders and testamentary freedom in early modern Kraków.

 

Deadline for applications = 20 April 2026.

 

More information on the project’s website: https://testament.project.uj.edu.pl/vacancy.