Completed UWA Projects
Since its inception in 2019, researchers at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ have completed numerous individual research projects. An overview of our ongoing research projects is available here.
Research Field A: Artefact Profiling
RFA02
Understanding Written Artefacts on Inorganic Supports at the Atomic-Scale Level
Weathering and Crystal Chemistry of the Rock-Forming Minerals
Completed in 2022
RFA05
Pattern Recognition in 2D Data from Digitised Images and Advances Acquisition Techniques
Completed in 2022
RFA08
Formatting and Erasing Polyphonic Music in Italian Manuscripts from 1350 to 1425
Completed in 2022
RFA10
Recovery of Damaged Writing
Completed in 2023
RFA13
History of Writing: Black Inks and Writing Surfaces
Completed in 2023
Research Field B: Inscribing Spaces
RFB03
Traditional Knowledge in Cultural and Material Transformation
Inscriptions of Wat Pho Monastery (1831-1832) and Thai Manuscript Culture
Completed in 2023
RFB05
The Interior of the Church in Lucklum
A Compendium of Early Modern European Emblematics
Completed in 2022
RFB07
'Communicating' a 'Code of Conduct'?
Inscriptions Containing Legal Regulations in Ancient Athens
Completed in 2023
RFB08
Lettering a Port City
Inscriptions of the 20th Century in Hamburg
Completed in 2021
RFB09
Graffiti: Ephemeral Inscriptions in Urban Space
Completed in 2023
RFB13
Bronze, Stone and Newspaper
The Materiality of Writing in Socialist China
Completed in 2021
Research Field C: Creating Originals
RFC03
Originals Created by Copying
Letters from heaven and their Agency in Popular Religious Belief (15th-20th Century)
Completed in 2022
RFC05
Parliamentary Shorthand Writing as Material and Political Practice
Completed in 2023
RFC07
Multiplicities of Originals
How the Manuscripts of Urban Meeting Records Were Used and Transformed
Completed in 2022
Research Field D: (Re-)Shaping Written Artefacts
RFD02
The Linguistic and Material Aspects of Mixed-Language Manuscripts in the Śrīvaiṣṇava Tradition
Completed in 2022
RFD03
Jñānaśrīmitranibandhāvali as a Multiple-Text Manuscript
Completed in 2022
RFD12
Handwritten Layers of Operatic Practices: The Reception of Richard Wagner at the Neue Deutsche Theater in Prague (1888–1938)
Completed in 2023
RFD16
Formatting Lurianic Metaphysics
Visualizations of the Godhead in Kabbalistic Prayerbooks
Completed in 2022
Research Field E: Archiving Artefacts
RFE03
Documentary Practice and Society in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Cairo
A Corpus of Arabic Documents from the Qaraite Jewish Community
Completed in 2022
RFE04
Archives and Literacy in Second Millenium Assyrian Manuscript Culture
Completed in 2022
RFE05
Choreographies of Archiving
A Cross-Cultural Study of Archiving Practices in Contemporary Dance
Completed in 2023
RFE06
Buildings, Rooms, and Furniture: Material and Spatial Dimensions of Early Modern European Archives
Completed in 2024
RFE08
From Instrument to Document
The Afterlife of Medieval Charters in Archives
Completed in 2023
RFE09
Bookbinding as Archival Instruments
Defining, Ordering and Transmitting Knowledge in Christian Egypt (4th–12th Centuries)
Completed in 2023
RFE10
Wandering Artefacts: The Materialistic History of German-Jewish Archives
Research Field G: Keeping Note(book)s
Research Field I: Formatting Multigraphic Artefacts
RFI02
Grasping the World in Ottoman Istanbul
Visual Negotiation and Reading Practices in Geographic Literature from the Sixteenth Century
Completed in 2022
RFI04
The Relationship between Illustration, Text and Commentary in the Hamburg Apocalypse, Codex In Scrinio 87
Completed in 2023
RFI05
Formatting Knowledge of a Wider World
Merchant's Manuals from the Late Medieval Italy
Completed in 2023
RFI06
Traces Left by Craftspeople
Exploring the Production of Illustrated Japanese Manuscripts of the 16th and 17th Centuries by Means of Paracontent and Colourants
Completed in 2022
Research Field K: Selecting Materials
Working Group: Facing New Technologies
FNT01
Anisong (Anisama) Manuscripts from Luang Prabang (Laos) in a Comparative Perspective
Transformation in the Age of Printing
Completed in 2023
FNT02
Change and Retention in Annotated Manuscripts of West Africa
Completed in 2023
FNT03
Relevance and Status of Jewish Magical Manuscripts in the Age of Printing
Completed in 2023
FNT04
Ritual, Aesthetics, and Handwriting
Collaborative Poetry in Contemporary Japan
Completed in 2023
FNT05
The Last Decades of Arabic Manuscript Culture (1870-1930)
Coexistence and Interaction with Printing
Completed in 2023
FNT07
Folk Healing in Late Imperial China and Formatting Practices in Medical Manuscripts
Completed in 2022
FNT08
Reframing Old Contents for New Readers in Late-Medieval German One-Volume Libraries
Completed in 2023
FNT09
The complicated Relationship Between Manuscripts and Print within the Islamic Written Tradition of East Africa
Completed in 2023