Decorated paper is a global phenomenon since at least the early modern period. The ERC-funded project GLOBAL DECO PAPER (Decorated Paper in the Early Modern Islamicate World: Aesthetics Techniques and Meaning in Global Contexts), at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, systematically studies the production, use, and significance of decorated paper in a globally comparative...

Lecture 1/10

Mariapaola Gritti / Martin Jörg Schäfer:

Introduction: Written Artefacts of Care

Lecture 2/10

Julia Nantke:

Briefe als literarische ‚Care‘-Praktiken und ihre digitale Erschließung

Lecture 3/10

Claudia Colini:

Caring for Written Objects: An Archaeometrist's Perspective

Making Croatia’s Trilingual and Triscript Manuscript Heritage Readable: Manuscript Collections, Script Diversity, and the Challenge of Artificial Intelligence

Ivana Dević, Split University Library

Croatian manuscript heritage represents a historically layered, multilingual, and multiscript culture. This presentation approaches it as a distributed manuscript ecosystem shaped by monastic...

Lecture 4/10

Hermine Grigoryan:

"Let No One Dare to Harm It": Manuscripts as Living Artefacts in the Context of Armenian Culture

Lecture 5/10

Marina Sartori:

“His Son, Whom He Loves”: Non-Biological Kinship and Written Artefacts of Funerary Care in 18th-Dynasty Egypt

Georg Friedrich Händels musikalische Werkstatt

Moderiertes Konzert zum 200. Geburtstag von Friedrich Chrysander

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Isolde Kittel-Zerer (Leitung), Studierende der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

Moderation: Ivana Rentsch und Leon Battran (Universität Hamburg, Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts)

Georg Friedrich Händel

Auszüge in unterschiedlichen...

Lecture 6/10

Ondřej Škrabal:

From Papa, With Love: Inscribed Dowry Vessels and Care for Status in Early China

Lecture 7/10

Nicole Brisch:

Die Pflege der Götter im alten Mesopotamien: Archivtexte von Nahrungsmittelopfern aus dem antiken Irak

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Lecture 8/10

Susana Molins Lliteras:

Ornamentation as Practices of Care: Examples from a Popular Devotional text from West Africa

Lecture 9/10

R. B. Davidson MacLaren:

Handling and Caring for Manuscripts in Islamicate Scholarly Traditions

Lecture 10/10

Anna Kinder and Hussein Mohammed:

Computational and Humanistic Perspectives on Rainer Maria Rilke’s Notebooks: From Text to Material Form