Events

Lecture 3/7

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...

The Kairouan Manuscript Project at CSMC: Zooming In on Parchment Decay

Salt, humidity fluctuations and microorganisms: a study on the degradation of the parchment manuscripts from Kairouan

R. B. Davidson MacLaren, Claudia Colini, Agnes Weiß

Written artefacts made from parchment are an important part of our cultural heritage. Since the collagen structure of parchment can deteriorate under...

Lecture 4/7

Carlos Fraenkel:

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

Lecture 5/7

Anke Graness:

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

Lecture 6/7

Isabelle Ratié:

Reading, Writing, Philosophising in Medieval India

Lecture 7/7

Yael Gazit:

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