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West meets East in Venice: Cross-cultural interactions and reciprocal influences between the Safavids and Venetians
ID789632From2 January 2019to4 January 2021FunderEuropean Commission"In the last two decades, in the wake of the renewed interest in early modern diplomacy and shifting toward interdisciplinaryand transcultural approaches, the interactions between Europe and the Islamic Middle East have received considerableattention. Scholars are increasingly emphasizing interconne...Titles of the New Testament: A New Approach to Manuscripts and the History of Interpretation
ID847428From2 December 2020to0 November 2025FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITY OF GLASGOWThe problem this project addresses is that operative modes for interpreting the Greek New Testament (NT) rely upon critical editions, not manuscripts. NT editions are scholarly abstractions that focus on reconstructing an “original” text, and that fail to account for a rich manuscript tradition that...An Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English
ID772744From6 September 2018to6 August 2024FunderEuropean CommissionAnonymous Old English preaching texts, written and copied between the ninth and late twelfth centuries, survive in ca. 350 versions in ca. 55 manuscripts. They represent the most comprehensive vernacular preaching corpus of medieval Europe before 1200 AD and depend almost entirely on a wide variety...Open Correspondence Publishing and Visualization Platform.
ID727832From4 June 2017to6 August 2019FunderEuropean CommissionIn Humanities, written correspondence is a fundamental object of study. The current IT revolution provides means for reassembling and disseminating this precious literary heritage for the first time, while at the same time fostering new forms of scholarly cooperation. As letters create links between...Roma Civic Emancipation Between The Two World Wars
ID694656From4 September 2016to2 February 2023FunderEuropean CommissionOver the past two decades the Roma issue has become one of the most current topics in European public space and also became especially relevant in academia. Despite of this there are still not researched topics, such as history of the Roma in the period between WWI and WWII, and the appearance and d...Making Books Talk: The Material Evidence of Manuscripts of the Kitab al-Shifa by Qadi Iyad (d.1149) for the Reception of an Andalusian Biography of the Prophet between 1100 and 1900
ID706611From3 February 2017to4 January 2019FunderEuropean CommissionThis project will examine the manuscripts of a biography of the Prophet Muhammad (d. ca. 632), written by the Maliki jurist Qadi ‘Iyad (d. 1149), in order to elucidate the historical context of the work’s enduring popularity with Muslim readers. The Kitab al-shifa’ fi ta‘rif huquq al-Mustafa (The bo...Bilingualism in Florentine and Tuscan Works (ca. 1260 - ca. 1416)
ID637533From4 October 2015to3 June 2021FunderEuropean CommissionThis project will undertake the first systematic investigation of the various literary documents that circulated simultaneously in more than one language in Tuscany, and especially Florence, between the mid-13th Century and the beginning of 15th Century. During that period, Florence was both a promi...The Tocharian Trek: A linguistic reconstruction of the migration of the Tocharians from Europe to China
ID758855From0 April 2018to5 March 2023FunderEuropean CommissionThe long trek of the Tocharians from Europe to China is one of the most disputed issues in the migration history of Eurasia. Tocharian is an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, which includes a.o. English, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. The Indo-European languages stretch in one uninter...Cultural Values and the International Trade in Medieval European Manuscripts, c. 1900-1945
ID817988From3 May 2019to2 April 2024FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITY OF LONDONCULTIVATE MSS aims to assess the significance of the trade in medieval manuscripts for the development of ideas about the nature and value of European culture in the early 20th century, a crucial period for the development of modern European nation states. Although recent technological developments...Poverty in the Qur’ān: Medieval Islamic Interpretations and Uses
ID895313From1 March 2021to2 February 2023FunderEuropean CommissionWhat does the Qur’ān say about poverty? Is poverty caused by divine will and thus inevitable? Is it a punishment, a trial, or a sign of divine favour? Who are the poor, what is their position in the society, and how should they be treated? What is the relation between poverty and moral virtue? These...Foucault's manuscripts on phenomenology (1950s) at BnF archive: a digital approach to the edition
ID836888From6 June 2019to1 May 2021FunderEuropean CommissionEDIFOU’s aim is to explore, organize, digitally index and disseminate Michel Foucault’s unpublished manuscripts of the 1950s and the early 1960s on phenomenology, psychology, psychopathology, and anthropology (collected since 2013 at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Archive). This part of Foucau...Beasts to Craft: BioCodicology as a new approach to the study of parchment manuscripts
ID787282From6 December 2018to4 November 2023FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorKOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITETThe intention of Beasts to Craft (B2C) is to document the biological and craft records in parchment in order to reveal the entangled histories of animal improvement and parchment production in Europe from 500-1900 AD. B2C will lay the foundations for a new approach to the the study of parchment manu...Gender Discrimination in the Tarim Basin
ID101030156From1 November 2021to2 October 2023FunderEuropean CommissionThe Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China was strategic on the ancient Silk Road. Expeditions by European explorers in the 19th and 20th centuries found ruins of ancient oases settlements around the circumference of the Taklamakan Desert. Amongst the ruins were artefacts, man...The Canonisation of the Quranic Reading Traditions
ID101044127From0 January 2023to5 December 2027FunderEuropean CommissionThe perfect preservation of the Quran back to the time of Muhammad, Islam’s founder, is a contentious topic. In the popular imagination, each syllable printed in the Quran today is believed to be identical to the way Muhammad taught his followers. One easily gets this impression from modern printed...The Multimedia Yasna
ID694612From6 October 2016to5 September 2022FunderEuropean CommissionWhat exactly are the words which priests recite in the Yasna, the core ritual of one of the most ancient and influential living religions, Zoroastrianism? What is their meaning and how do they relate to the ritual actions? The Yasna is significant for our cultural heritage not only because of its in...Minuscule Texts: Marginalized Voices in Early Medieval Latin Culture (c. 700–c. 1000)
ID101018645From6 January 2022to4 December 2026FunderEuropean CommissionMINiTEXTS seeks to systematically study early medieval minuscule texts, i.e. short texts of which large numbers were added to blank spaces of Latin manuscripts from c. 700 to c. 1000 and which manuscript scholars refer to as “microtexts,” “guest texts,” or “additions.” Unlike such manuscripts’ main...His Enemies, Her Rivals: Gendered Expressions of Hostility in Ancient Indian Ritual Speech and Action, 1000 B.C.E.
ID101063407From3 February 2023to5 January 2025FunderEuropean CommissionThis project will chart new territory in the study of the ancient Indian ritual texts of the Atharva-Veda (AV), the so-called “magic” Veda (c. 1000 B.C.E.). Because of its unorthodox elements, the AV has historically been overshadowed in India by the other three Vedas of the “high religion,” regarde...Censoring Chaucer: Canonicity and Obscenity in Manuscripts and Print Editions of the Canterbury Tales (c. 1400 - 1831)
ID741333From6 September 2018to1 August 2020FunderEuropean CommissionThis project investigates the relationship between Chaucer's canonical status and his obscenity, both of which have been closely associated with the Canterbury Tales since Chaucer's death in 1400. Readers of the Canterbury Tales have made note of its occasionally indecorous language and content (par...Music and Late Medieval European Court Cultures: Towards a Trans-Disciplinary and Post-National Cultural Poetics of the Performative Arts
ID669190From5 January 2016to6 December 2022FunderEuropean CommissionLate medieval European court cultures have traditionally been studied from a mono-disciplinary and national(ist) perspective. This focus has obscured much of the interplay of cultural performances that informed “courtly life”. Recent research has begun to reverse this, focusing on issues such as the...Storyworlds in Transition: Coptic Apocrypha in Changing Contexts in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods
ID865971From6 August 2020to4 July 2025FunderEuropean CommissionThis project proposes the first systematic study of Coptic apocrypha covering the entire timespan of Coptic literary production, and it aims to do so with unprecedented methodological sophistication. Apocrypha is here defined as (1) texts and traditions that develop or expand upon characters and eve...Polyphonic Philosophy: Logic in the Long Twelfth Century (c. 1070-1220) for a New Horizon in the History of Philosophy
ID101041596From4 September 2022to2 August 2027FunderEuropean Commission"This project aims at an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to Latin logical commentaries from the Long Twelfth-Century (c. 1070-1220). My contention is that this little-explored topic presents us with a unique ""Polyphonic Philosophy"" that can open up a new horizon in our understanding of phil...Visualizing Hebrew Knowledge: Shape and Text in Scientific and Philosophical Manuscripts
ID101063381From1 June 2023to3 June 2025FunderEuropean CommissionBetween the 10th and 12th centuries CE, the major players of the Mediterranean included the Republic of Venice, Norman Sicily, Fatimid Egypt, and North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and Byzantium. Each of these centres was inhabited by a mixed population of Jews, Muslims, and Christians who maintain...Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550
ID101041517From3 March 2023to2 February 2028FunderEuropean CommissionVernacular prayer books were by far the most commonly read book in the late medieval Low Countries. The mainstay of this vast corpus is the Book of Hours in the translation by Geert Grote (c. 850 manuscripts and 30 printed editions), founder one of the period’s most powerful religious reform movemen...German Arithmetical Treatises in Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages (1400-1522). A Study on Philology, History and Culture based on a Digital Edition of the Treatises.
ID101039572From4 September 2022to2 August 2027FunderEuropean CommissionHow was the practice of arithmetic developed and spread during the transition between the Middle Ages and the Modern Period? We know a lot about the evolution of mathematical theory and its diffusion in Latin, but little about the way in which arithmetic knowledge spread in the vernaculars in the 15...Hebrew Philosophical Manuscripts as Sites of Engagement
ID101041376From6 October 2022to4 September 2027FunderEuropean CommissionIn the Middle Ages, philosophical activity undertaken in Hebrew was not conducted within an institutionalized environment. There were no universities, regulated curricula, or professors, but only small circles of scholars, most of whom we know nothing about. These scholars had to obtain their own co...