Events

Some Approaches to the Life-Cycle of Material Texts: From Production to the Graphosphere

Professor Dr Simon Franklin (University of Cambridge)

This lecture outlines two aspects of the life-cycle of material texts, based on research on materials from early Rus and Early Modern Russia. First it discusses a classification of writing according to the relationship of the written word to the object on...

Global trade in late medieval and early modern times depended on specific manuscripts. Since trade had reached a certain level of complexity, merchants could not act on their own, but depended on partners and agents to cooperate with them. Written records played a very important part in organizing this complex trade: The relationship between a merchant and his agent was negotiated in contracts...

DNA – The Preserved Memory of Biological Materials

Speakers: Anna Schulz and Stephan Seifert

Chairs: Markus Fischer and Ralf Möller

The DNA of written artefacts contains a lot of information that can help to uncover their rich past and reveal new connections in philological investigations based on, for example, their production material, their state of preservation, and the environmental...

Lecture Series, Lecture 7/7

Conclusions

Lecturers: Caroline Macé and Eva Wilden

Multilingualism is an important feature in manuscript cultures and deserves to be studied as such. It may take different forms: influence of several languages in the process of creation of literary or documentary works or in the process of copying; translation, adaptation and reception of works in other cultures...

The Context of Production of Ambrosianus B 21 inf. and the Syriac Apocalyptic Horizon in Late Antiquity

Manuscript Ambrosianus B 21 inf., dated to the sixth or seventh century CE, is famous for being the sole complete witness to the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch. However, the manuscript does contain other biblical texts of apocalyptic tone and deserves to be studied as a whole. The present lecture...