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Since ancient times, domestic spaces were the stage of a variety of writing practices ranging from those dictated by everyday life needs to others witnessing the “social” and “communal” dimension of these settings. In almost every culture, from antiquity to modern times, written artefacts, which are extremely different in terms of materiality and function, concur in shaping the domestic landscape...

Lecture 1/6

Michael Friedrich:

Philosophising by Hand? Manuscripts and Print in Song Neo-Confucianism (11th–12th Centuries)

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Mario Meliadò:

The Reading Mind: Practices of Annotation and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy

Digital Lunch Seminar Series

The Container Lab Mission to Analyse Palm-leaf Manuscripts

Giovanni Ciotti, Nathali Holz

Palm-leaf manuscripts represent one of the world’s most significant and numerous forms of handwritten artefacts. However, their material properties have hardly, if at all, been studied systematically. A team from the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ is...

Lecture 3/6

Carlos Fraenkel:

Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Notes on His Translation of Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed

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Anke Graness:

Philosophy by Hand or Mouth-to-Ear Philosophy? Philosophy in Oral Traditions

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Isabelle Ratié:

Reading, Writing, Philosophising in Medieval India

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Yael Gazit:

Don’t Look Back in Anger: Reconsidering Appropriation of Past Philosophy