January 2021
OnlineThursday Lecture by Prof. Dr Vollandt (Munich):Saʿadia Gaon’s Arabic translation of the Tora and its readers
Saʿadia Gaon’s Arabic translation of the Tora and its readers: An attempt in reception history
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POSTPONED The Greco-Roman Theatre as Inscribed Space
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Online Workshop:History, Art and Epic in Medieval Manuscripts.
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CSMC Lecture Series: Maps and Colours
Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau (Orléans): Colours on French local maps from 14th to 16th century
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Online Thursday Lecture by Prof. Dr Daniel Leese (Freiburg):Using Dead Files in Lively Fashion”
"Using Dead Files in Lively Fashion”: Official and Unofficial Archives on the History of the People’s Republic of China
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February 2021
Informal Talk Online by Dr Georg Leube (Bayreuth/ Hamburg)
Title: Spatiality and non-Textual Elements in Qara- and Aqquyunlu Epigraphy (15th Century CE Eastern Anatolia and Western Iran)
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Workshop:Stenographical Studies Workshop
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POSTPONED Thursday Lecture by Prof. Dr Jürgen Renn (Berlin)
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April 2021
Recipes and Recipe Books Across Manuscript Cultures
The workshop was originally scheduled for 16 and 17 November 2020.
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May 2021
"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...
June 2021
Keynote Lecture and opening of the workshop The Raqqada Manuscripts: New Perspectives
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The Raqqada Manuscripts: New Perspectives
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July 2021
Merchants’ manuscript culture in the premodern world (Merchants and their agents in a comparative perspective)
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October 2021
Manuscript Albums: Collecting& Compiling Handwritten Items
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Manuscript Albums: Collecting& Compiling Handwritten Items
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