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How Can “Images Drive Out Images”? The Use and Function of Devotional Imagery in Heinrich Seuse’s Exemplar: A Reassessment
ID274916From5 July 2011to0 June 2013FunderEuropean Commission"The aim of this research and training programme is to provide new answers to art historical questions on the use and function of images in the meditative practices of the Late Middle Ages. I will do this by focusing on the highly problematic case of Heinrich Seuse’s Exemplar in an interdisciplinary...Bringing GIS to the Digital Humanities: Defining the Spatial Humanities
ID283850From0 January 2012to6 December 2016FunderEuropean CommissionThis proposal will create a step-change in the way that the humanities explore place, space and geography. Building on the PI’s considerable experience in Digital Humanities and Historical Geographical Information Systems (HGIS), its key aim is to develop and apply methodologies that allow unstructu...Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Preservation and Research
ID240720From2 December 2009to0 May 2015FunderEuropean CommissionEthiopia is one of the countries with the most ancient Christian history, and the only country in Africa where Christianity became official religion as early as in the 4th century A.D. It is also the only country in the region where the history has been documented in written sources: manuscripts in...Developing New Approaches to the Preservation and Sharing of Africa’s Printed Heritage: the Eritrean Case
ID236699From3 October 2009to4 October 2011FunderEuropean CommissionThe research project aim at developing a new methodological and procedural approach to the preservation and dissemination of Africa’s printed heritage through the use of digital technologies. Since independence many African countries have attempted to recover their historical sources. Initially parc...Theology, Education, Scholastic Institution and Scholars-network: dialogues between the University of Paris and the new Universities from Central and Eastern Europe during the Late
ID313339From1 October 2012to2 July 2018FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorCENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRSThe THESIS project proposes a pioneering study of a coherent corpus of medieval manuscripts consisting of all the commentaries on the Sentences composed in Paris and in the new universities from Central Europe between 1350-1450. A Sentences commentary is a core component of the medieval academic cur...WORDS: Asymmetry, change and processing in phonological mental representation
ID269670From6 October 2011to5 September 2016FunderEuropean CommissionIn the most general terms, the novel objective of the proposed project is to investigate the abstract nature of the mental phonological representations of words which is claimed to govern the (i) time-course of on-line word-recognition and (ii) the temporal dimension of historical development.The pr...Utilitarian Fiction: Bentham's View of Language in its Theoretical and Historical Context
ID253949From3 September 2010to5 August 2012FunderEuropean CommissionJeremy Bentham (1748-1832) is very well known for his utilitarian ethics. However, he based his ethical views on a specific conception of language and mind. The project aims at giving a new account of Bentham’s philosophy of language, in its connection both with Bentham’s more known utilitarian clai...The here and the hereafter in Islamic traditions
ID263308From2 March 2011to4 April 2015FunderEuropean CommissionThe aim of this project is to write a history of the Muslim paradise and hell. Researchers (PI, RF and two doctoral researchers) will assess the extent to which Islamic traditions favour or reject a view of human existence as directed toward the otherworld. They will do so by examining a variety of...Unlocking Historical and Molecular Archives
ID299101From2 May 2012to3 April 2014FunderEuropean Commission"Europe’s rich historical record has been plundered for information about climate and weather in the past. From instrumental data, to correspondence and even paintings, climate historians have tried to link direct human record with molecular records from trees, lakes, caves and oceans. My fellowshi...Philosophy on the Border of Civilizations and Intellectual Endeavours: Towards a Critical Edition of the Metaphysics (Ilahiyyat of Kitab al-Shifa’) of Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
ID339621From6 February 2014to4 January 2019FunderEuropean CommissionFor its tremendous impact on subsequent philosophers and theologians, not only in the Islamic, but also in the Christian and Jewish worlds, Avicenna’s metaphysics represents a turning-point in the history of philosophy until modern times. A reliable edition of his most important metaphysical work, t...Calendars in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: standardization and fixation
ID323288From5 February 2013to3 January 2018FunderEuropean CommissionThis project will study how calendars evolved in late antique and medieval societies towards ever increasing standardization and fixation. The study of calendars has been neglected by historians as a technical curiosity; but in fact, the calendar was at the heart of ancient and medieval culture, as...Weaving the humanities into the web and the web into the humanities. Preserving the cultural heritage of Yemen by creating a universally accessible virtual library of manuscripts
ID324591From5 March 2013to1 June 2014FunderEuropean CommissionThe innovative potential of this Proof of Concept project is to demonstrate that humanistic sciences can be productively coupled with sound business strategies to advance societal benefits and cultural sustainability. The grant will be used to get into contact and contract with potential joint ventu...The Islamisation of Anatolia, c. 1100-1500
ID284076From0 January 2012to1 July 2017FunderEuropean CommissionThis project studies the transformation of Anatolia from a Christian to a majority Muslim society over the period c. 1100 to 1500AD. Whereas previous research has concentrated almost exclusively on conversion, this study also emphasises the importance of acculturation to Islam, and thus seeks to und...The Censorship of British Theatre, 1737-1843
ID333592From3 May 2013to0 April 2017FunderEuropean CommissionThis project will produce the first integrated history of the culture of censorship in 18th and 19th-century British theatre. In 1737 the British government passed the Stage Licensing Act as a response to the satirical attacks contained in Henry Fielding's plays. As a result any play that sought a p...Conversion, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics, Interaction: Early Modern Iberia and Beyond
ID323316From1 April 2013to0 March 2019FunderEuropean CommissionIn an early sixteenth-century treatise Martín de Figuerola, a convert from Islam who sought to convince the Muslims of Valencia and Aragon to join him, reports a story he claims to have heard from the Muslim judge of Cocentaina (Valencia). The latter had told him that, in marriage contracts between...New Contexts for Old Texts: Unorthodox Texts and Monastic Manuscript Culture in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Egypt
ID283741From0 January 2012to6 December 2016FunderEuropean Commission"Using recently accessible Coptic monastic texts, new philology, and cognitive theories of literature and memory, this project aims to shed important new light on the production and use of some of the most enigmatic manuscripts discovered during the last century, namely the Nag Hammadi codices, toge...Decoding Domesticate DNA in Archaeological Bone and Manuscripts
ID295729From0 July 2012to6 June 2018FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorTHE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLINThrough animal domestication humans profoundly altered their relationship with nature, controlling the breeding of their major food sources for material, social or symbolic profit. Understanding this complex process is a compelling research aim. There is a need to develop new high-resolution genet...Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic
ID263751From5 October 2010to2 September 2014FunderEuropean CommissionThis project involves developing and applying new methods in palaeography, bringing digital resources to bear in innovative ways. It comprises three components: a web resource, a database, and a monograph. The web resource will allow the study of medieval script in the context of the manuscripts and...Going from Hand to Hand – Networks of Intellectual Exchange in the Tamil Learned Traditions
ID339470From6 March 2014to4 February 2019FunderEuropean CommissionClassical Tamil can lay claim to being the oldest poetic tradition on the Indian sub-continent after Sanskrit. Its literature may have been committed to writing for the first time around the 6th century, with oral predecessors that reach back at least to the beginning of the Common Era. For a good...Anthropological Materialism: a Neglected European Tradition
ID252220From3 September 2010to5 August 2012FunderEuropean CommissionThe purpose of the project “Anthropological Materialism: a Neglected European Tradition” (AMEUR) is, from the perspective of Walter Benjamin, to circumscribe “anthropological materialism” as a neglected part of European identity, from the 19th to the 21th century. The task is double. On the one hand...Early Confucian philosophy in the light of the Guodian manuscripts
ID274566From6 October 2011to1 September 2013FunderEuropean CommissionIn 1993, a bundle of bamboo-slip manuscripts were unearthed in a tomb, dated sometime between the late fourth and the early third century B.C., in a village named Guodian, in China. In addition to other written materials, the archaeological excavation revealed an important number of Confucian treati...Cultural variety in the Christian Orient: Christian Arabic Language and Literature in the Middle Ages
ID220782From5 June 2008to6 June 2010FunderEuropean CommissionThis project aims to suggest the study of a set of Arabic texts written by a Palestinian Christian Bishop who lived in a period of persecutions against Christians under the Fatimid (Shia) Islamic caliphate (IX-XI centuries AD). This type of texts is of a major historical relevance, dealing as they a...Plotinus against Gnostics: a New Survey
ID627200From3 July 2015to5 June 2017FunderEuropean CommissionThe PaGaNS project aims to prepare, in 2 years, a new constitution of the text and a new thorough philological commentary to three Plotinian anti-Gnostic treatises (III.8 [30], V.8 [31], V.5 [32]). Since the philological research on Plotinus’ works has been neglected after Henry – Schwyzer’s ed. min...Initial Training Networks for Digital Cultural Heritage: Projecting our Past to the Future
ID608013From2 October 2013to6 September 2017FunderEuropean Commission"Cultural Heritage (CH) is an integral element of Europe and vital for the creation of a common European identity and one of the greatest assets for steering Europe’s social, economic development and job creation. However, the current research training activities in CH are fragmented and mostly desi...Paratexts of the Bible. Analysis and Edition of the Greek Textual Transmission
ID339256From3 October 2014to1 September 2019FunderEuropean CommissionThis project takes a new look at an old text. The Bible is a fundamental book for the history of religious beliefs, cultural history, art history as well as many other fields. For centuries it has been read and copied multiple times. Thousands of medieval manuscripts survive. The process of transmis...