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From East to West: Christian Literacy in the First Millennium
DeLiCaTe Workshop on Palaeography and Lectionaries
When: Monday, 18 March 2024, 9:00 am – 6:25 pm CET, and Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 9:15 am – 5:15 pm CET
Where: Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg
The creation of specific alphabetic scripts in the context of Christianisation in the early 5th century CE meant the beginning of literacy for three distinct ethnic groups in the Southern Caucasus: Armenians, Georgians, and the so-called ‘Caucasian Albanians’. The development of these scripts during the subsequent centuries and the textual heritage preserved from those times are the object of the ERC project ‘DeLiCaTe’ (‘The Development of Literacy in the Caucasian Territories’) hosted at the CSMC since 2022. The present workshop is intended to put the Caucasian traditions in a wider context by focussing on the usage and evolution of majuscule letters as prevalent in most of the contemporary Christian manuscript cultures (Greek, Latin, Coptic, Gothic, etc.), and lectionaries, i.e. books containing the Biblical lections for liturgical use, as one of the most prominent type of manuscripts that were produced.
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Meeting ID: 631 3684 5715
Passcode: 85840568
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