Project description
Revealing medieval Brittany’s intellectual history through manuscripts
While progress has been made in understanding the political history of early mediaeval Brittany, our knowledge of its literary and intellectual history remains limited due to the challenge of attributing manuscripts to the region. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the BretPal project aims to establish criteria for identifying manuscripts from early mediaeval Brittany (780–1100) using palaeographic techniques and Digital Humanities methods. This will provide the first comprehensive narrative of the scribal and literary culture of that period, along with an open-access digital database built using Archetype software. Additionally, the project will explore the broader influence of Breton intellectual culture on early medieval Western Europe.
Objective
BretPal seeks to answer the main question of what is Breton Caroline minuscule, who wrote it, and where? Despite advances in our understanding of early medieval Brittany's political history, our knowledge of Brittany's literary and intellectual history remains stunted due to a lack of being able to definitively ascribe manuscripts (and, therefore, the texts contained within) to Brittany. BretPal will establish parameters to identify those manuscripts from early medieval Brittany (c. 780–1100) based upon palaeographic and Digital Humanities methods. The project offers the first comprehensive narrative of the scribal and literary culture of early medieval Brittany, as well as an open-access digital database using the Archetype software. Further, the project will examine the wider impact that Breton intellectual culture had upon wider early medieval western Europe through the Breton diaspora from the ninth century onwards. BretPal will be hosted by the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) and will be carried out under the auspices of the Moore Institute with a secondment at the École Pratique de Hautes Études, Université Paris, Sciences & Lettres.
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- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- humanities history and archaeology history
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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