research projects

Currently most of my time is devoted to getting settled into my position as Lecturer in Medieval Studies and Digital Humanities at the University of Leeds. Within the first six months of my tenure, I was awarded a Research England grant under the Enhancing Research Culture funding stream to lead a short-term project, Digital Explorations: Opening the Medieval Manuscript Fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library, which led me to work more broadly on manuscripts from Ripon, specifically manuscript fragments found in the printed book collection of Anthony Higgin (d.1624), the second Dean of the Ripon Cathedral.

Previously, I conducted research on medieval and early modern manuscripts at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, worked on the manuscripts at the Arnamagnæan Collection and developed a two-year EU-funded project, Transtextual Networks. I return to these past projects often and use my findings and lessons learned as part of my teaching.

Finding exciting books for Kısmet Press, a newly establishing open-access publishing house, of which I am a co-founder, is also always on my mind.

manuscript fragments from the ripon cathedral library

This project surveys the fragments found within bindings of early printed books that are part of the Ripon Cathedral Library Collection, now housed at the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds.

pre-1600 manuscripts at the kenneth spencer research library

This project aims to increase awareness of and access to the medieval and early modern manuscripts produced before 1600 at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas.

latin manuscripts in the arnamagnæan collection

This project investigates the history of the manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan Collection that contain texts in the Latin language and aims to create fully annotated digital catalogue records for this corpus.

transtextual networks in the european middle ages

Engaging with one of the most important elements of Europe’s cultural heritage, “Transtextual Networks” employs material evidence and technological tools to analyse relationships among texts in the Middle Ages.

highlight: manuscripts with limp bindings in the arnamagnæan collection

“Judging a Book by its Cover: Manuscripts with Limp Bindings in the Arnamagnæan Collection.” In From Text to Artefact: Studies in Honour of Anne Mette Hansen. Ed. K. A. Kapitan, B. Stegmann, S. D. Vrieland. Leeds: Kısmet Press, 2019. 121–40.

highlight: presentation at Brut in New Troy 2021

N. Kıvılcım Yavuz. “The Long History of the Trojan Brutus: The Translingual Manuscript Evidence.” Brut in New Troy. 25–28 Jun 2021.

highlight: hernando colón’s book of books: AM 377 fol.

One of the manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan Collection, AM 377 fol., has recently been identified as having belonged to Hernando Colón, son of the famous navigator Christopher Columbus.

highlight: presentation at IMC 2020

“The Codex as a Compilatio: Historiography in Multitext Manuscripts.” International Medieval Congress 2020. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 7 Jul 2020.

highlight: article on the tradition of trojan origins

“From Caesar to Charlemagne: The Tradition of Trojan Origins.” The Medieval History Journal: Special issue on Narratives of Ethnic Origins: Eurasian Perspectives. Ed. W. Pohl. 21.2 (2018): 251–90.

highlight: presentation at 12th Schoenberg Symposium 2019

“From Medieval Booklists to Digital Catalogues: Manuscript Data Then and Now.” 12th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 23 Nov 2019.

n. kıvılcım yavuz

Lecturer in Medieval Studies and Digital Humanities, University of Leeds