Postdoctoral Researcher (Post-Doc 2) at the Centre for Ius Commune, in the ERC Starting Grant p

Organisation/Company Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Department Centre for Ius Commune Research Field Juridical sciences History » History of law Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Positions Postdoc Positions Final date to receive applications 30 Sep 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Warsaw) Country Poland Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 40 Offer Starting Date 1 Dec 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Horizon Europe - ERC Reference Number  Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Postdoctoral Position in the Research Project
PetrIUS:
Petrification of ius commune through printed paratexts
. Full-time position, temporary contract with the first contract for 6 months, 36 months in total

The responsibilities of this position will include in general:

• Researching the printed legal paratexts.
• Collecting and analyzing literature dedicated to printed paratexts.
• Contributing to the preparation of scholarly articles.
• Presenting research findings at conferences and academic seminars.
• Organizing seminars focused on the themes of the project.
• Cooperation within a research team (required work performance at the place of employment).

In particular, Postdoc 2 will implement WP2 and WP3 together with Postdoc 3 under the supervision of principal investigator:

WP2 Investigation of paratexts origins and variants.

WP3 Research on paratexts forming part of the printed corpora iuris.

The first hypotheses on the origin of different paratexts will be formulated on the basis of the comparative reading of various printed works (editions of sources, commentaries, treatises, etc.), and only afterward will they need verification based on the examination of the manuscripts. This ‘backward’ direction will be complemented with the comparative analysis of the printed variants of paratexts. It is justified to avoid time-consuming research dedicated to the manuscripts.

As PetrIUS focuses on the printed paratexts, this direction of research is justified to verify the claims about the original authors and sources of para textual material. It will not be our goal to trace the history of every single paratext, and the focus of PetrIUS lies not on the manuscript transmission of paratexts. We will instead provide enough case studies to make justified claims about the history of particular types of paratexts.

The variants of paratexts will be examined from the late medieval manuscripts, through incunabula, and up to ‘classical’ editions of corpora iuris and beyond. The investigation of handwritten material will be necessary to prove direct links between various types of printed paratexts and the original sources from which they might have been excerpted. The tasks which will contribute to this WP are as follows:

• providing samples of variants of paratexts in the printed source editions together with their assumed original authors;
• preparing the draft list of the late medieval works from which the paratexts were excerpted;
• verification of consistency between the paratexts added to the source editions and their original sources in print;
• the latter will serve to prepare the list of works that should be investigated in manuscripts in order to prove the initial attribution of origins of certain types and variants of paratexts;
• study of manuscripts in search of the passages that were later incorporated in the printed corpora iuris as paratexts;
• comparative analysis of the found passages and printed paratexts to determine the possible sources used by the early modern editors and to trace the development of variants of paratexts;
• contribution to the database IVS Commune coordinated by Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni with the information about the para textual strata of the editions of the corpora iuris;
• exemplification of these processes by a handful of case studies.

WP3 Research on paratexts forming part of the printed corpora iuris. The key action of this WP is to unfold and describe the methods applied by printers and editors in preparing the apparatuses to the editions of legal books and the factors that influenced the success of respective…