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CSMCCentre for the Study of
Manuscript Cultures

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Cluster of Excellence

Understanding Written Artefacts

Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures


Since 2019, CSMC is home to the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA). The research at UWA aims to develop a global framework for the study of all written artefacts from the beginning of writing to the present day and from all regions that have produced such artefacts.Funded by the DFG and in cooperation with Helmut Schmidt Universität, TU Hamburg, and the Universität Lübeck, the Cluster comprises over 50 research projects from 40 academic disciplines.

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Research Fields

Combining approaches from the humanities and the natural sciences, the Cluster is organised in eleven research fields, which focus on different dimensions of written artefacts, such as their materiality, spatiality, content, and format.

Research Fields A-K
Working Groups

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Working Groups

Working groups and seminars provide a research infrastructure to deepen cross-disciplinary cooperation.

Working Groups and Seminars