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The Secret Life of Writing: People, Script and Ideas in the Iberian Peninsula (c. 900-1200)

Opis projektu

Odkrywanie średniowiecznych rękopisów autorów z niższych sfer

Większość zachowanych średniowiecznych rękopisów to dzieła, które były cennymi artefaktami dla wielmożnych. Jednak do czasów współczesnych przetrwały też inne manuskrypty, które pokazują odmienną stronę średniowiecznego społeczeństwa. Celem finansowanego przez UE projektu PeopleAndWriting jest zbadanie dzieł napisanych przez osoby z niższych sfer, żeby odkryć, co takie piśmiennictwo znaczyło dla zwykłych obywateli i jak wpływało na ich codzienne życie. Będzie to badanie interdyscyplinarne, w którym uczeni zastosują nowatorską metodę łączącą elementy studiów nad rękopisami i antropologii, aby poznać nieznaną historię ludzi, którzy pisali, podpisywali, czytali i przechowywali takie dzieła. Przedmiotem analiz będą dotychczas słabo zbadane zbiory rękopisów z Półwyspu Iberyjskiego, Wyniki badań zostaną udostępnione także szerszej publiczności.

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As a rule, only those medieval manuscripts that were of interest for the powerful have been preserved. Extant codices were cherished throughout centuries as tangible signs of cultural pre-eminence and carriers of the sacred word; charters were kept as custodians of patrimony and witness to the history of institutions, proclaiming the reasons why monasteries and cathedrals should be revered. But against this rule, other manuscripts that did not directly serve the purposes of high-status minorities were created and are still around. Codices that, belonging to an ecclesiastical rite that was suppressed, should not survive today, but were kept as guardians of tradition. Charters that, intermingled with royal diplomas, have survived without an apparent reason for they do not relate to privileges granted. These sources show us a different side of medieval society in which non-powerful individuals outside central institutions played a crucial role in understanding the implications of written communication, shaping their social memory and that of their past by fully integrating writing in their lives. PeopleAndWriting aims at exploring this common people-writing pairing to uncover what writing meant for lay communities, how it modelled their daily life, and how the use of writing individualised people within their group. From the interdisciplinary study of theses sources that defy the rule, the project proposes a novel method combining approaches from Manuscript Studies to Anthropology to, based upon the graphical, textual, and historical analysis of the sources, reveal the hidden history of the people who wrote, signed, read, and kept handwritten material. Moreover, by focusing on a hitherto unmapped corpus of manuscripts from the Iberian Peninsula, which will be made openly available to the general public, the project aims to integrate Iberia in the recently opened general debate on Medieval Communication, exploring new avenues of research on Written Culture.

System finansowania

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

Instytucja przyjmująca

UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
Wkład UE netto
€ 995 040,00
Adres
CALLE PATIO DE ESCUELAS 1
37008 Salamanca
Hiszpania

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Region
Centro (ES) Castilla y León Salamanca
Rodzaj działalności
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Linki
Koszt całkowity
€ 995 040,00

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