April 2021
CSMC Seminar: Early Chinese Manuscripts and the Chinese Writing System
This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.
In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...
CSMC Seminar: Early Chinese Manuscripts and the Chinese Writing System
This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.
In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...
May 2021
CSMC Seminar: Early Chinese Manuscripts and the Chinese Writing System
This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.
In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...
CSMC Seminar: Early Chinese Manuscripts and the Chinese Writing System
This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.
In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...
Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Thies Staack (Hamburg): Wooden and bamboo Chinese rolls
Stefan Baums (Munich): Gandhāran birchbark scrolls
For registration, please follow the link „Website der Veranstaltung”
CSMC Seminar: Early Chinese Manuscripts and the Chinese Writing System
This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.
In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...
"Tied and Bound”: How to Keep Things Together (or Not?)
Assuming that ‘codicological units’ exist in whatever manuscript cultures and that they are composed of discrete elements, the issue of cohesion of these elements is a general and even universal one. Every manuscript culture has therefore developed physical devices to keep writing surfaces together and these devices can be generally categorized under binding. Like other features of manuscript...
CSMC Seminar: Early Chinese Manuscripts and the Chinese Writing System
This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.
In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...
CSMC Seminar: Early Chinese Manuscripts and the Chinese Writing System
This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.
In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...
June 2021
POSTPONED Keynote Lecture and opening of the workshop The Raqqada Manuscripts: New Perspectives
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POSTPONED The Raqqada Manuscripts: New Perspectives
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Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Imre Galambos (Cambridge): Medieval Chinese paper scrolls
Nathan Carlig (Liège): Coptic papyrus rolls
For registration, please follow the link „Website der Veranstaltung”
July 2021
POSTPONED Workshop: Explorations into Vietnamese Manuscript Culture
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Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Élodie Attia (Aix-en Provence): Parchment/Leather Hebrew liturgical scrolls
Marilena Maniaci (ANVUR): Greek and Latin Vertical rolls/scrolls
For registration, please follow the link „Website der Veranstaltung”
POSTPONED Merchants’ manuscript culture in the premodern world
Full title: Merchants’ manuscript culture in the premodern world (Merchants and their agents in a comparative perspective)
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September 2021
Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Final wrap-up discussion
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Archives and Archival Practices: Documentary Corpora from the Islamicate World
In this workshop we will examine and interpret the traces of archives and archival practices that survive in extant documentary corpora from the pre-modern Islamicate world. We will bring together scholars working with original documents in various languages and scripts (Persian, Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian) to examine the comparability of practices with roots in legal systems, social...
Archives and Archival Practices: Documentary Corpora from the Islamicate World
In this workshop we will examine and interpret the traces of archives and archival practices that survive in extant documentary corpora from the pre-modern Islamicate world. We will bring together scholars working with original documents in various languages and scripts (Persian, Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian) to examine the comparability of practices with roots in legal systems, social...
October 2021
Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and Related Phenomena from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and Related Phenomena from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Manuscript Albums: Collecting& Compiling Handwritten Items
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November 2021
Seals and Sealing: a Survey of Materials, Forms and Functions
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December 2021
The Greco-Roman Theatre as Inscribed Space
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July 2022
Merchants’ manuscript culture in the premodern world
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Merchants’ manuscript culture in the premodern world
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