We welcome our new Associate Professor in Medieval Latin Manuscript Studies and Senior Research Fellow

Dr Laure Miolo is a historian of late medieval Europe, specialising in manuscript studies and the history of early libraries, with a particular focus on the history of science, scientific books, and scholarly practices between the 13th and 15th centuries. She comes to Wadham from Lincoln College, where she held the Lyell Career Development Fellowship in Latin Palaeography and the Dilts Research Fellowship from 2022 to 2025. Prior to that, Dr Miolo was an Early Career Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and a Munby Fellow in Bibliography at the Cambridge University Library.

Dr Miolo's research explores the production, circulation, and use of manuscripts, with a focus on scribes, scripts, and the history of medieval libraries. Her forthcoming monograph reconstructs the scientific collection of the early library of the Sorbonne and examines its owners and users. Dr Miolo teaches Latin and French palaeography for postgraduate students (MSt and DPhil), as well as courses in diplomatic and codicology.

We look forward to welcoming Dr Miolo to Wadham from 1 October 2025.