At the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean StudiesSummer School on Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Traditions

7 March 2023

Photo: Ethio-SPaRe

From 4-15 September 2023, a summer school introduces graduate students and junior scholars to various methods used in manuscript studies, with a focus on the Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition. Applications can be submitted until 15 March.

Lectures and seminars in topics ranging from History to Philology to Codicology to Cataloguing shall cover the most central aspects of research and help in developing skills necessary for theoretical and practical tasks in the study of manuscripts. 

Practical exercises will include manuscript digitization, codicological and philological description of manuscripts, palaeographic and art historical analysis, as well as an introductory workshop in digital humanities.

The Summer School focuses on Christian Gəʿəz manuscript tradition, but also provides insights into the other manuscript cultures of Ethiopia and Eritrea as well as state-of-the-art research in Classical (Byzantine Greek and Mediaeval Latin) manuscript studies.

It is open to students and scholars of all disciplines of humanities, but some background in such fields as (Christian) oriental studies, Semitic studies, Classical studies, mediaeval, religious studies, or other related subjects is expected. 

The knowledge and skills taught in this Summer School are meant to benefit participants both in their own research and towards a further transfer of knowledge at their research institutions.

Organised by the  Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, the Summer School is supported by the Cluster of Excellence 'Undertanding Written Artefacts', Volkswagen Stiftung, and the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.  

More information on the course and how to apply is available here.