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Fragen nach methodischer Relevanz und möglichen Anwendungsszenarien digitaler Verfahren in der geisteswissenschaftlich-mediävistischen Forschung werden dabei um Überlegungen zur digitalen Publikation und nachnutzbaren Dokumentation der im Arbeitsprozess erzeugten Forschungsdaten ergänzt.

#NFDI, #NFDI4Objects, #NFDI4Memory, #inschriften, #epigraphy, #handschriften, #mittelalter, #mediävistik, #medieval, #numismatics, #call, #callfor, #graduate, #workshop, #training, #researchdata 3/4

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In dem zweitägigen Workshop werden verschiedene Aspekte der digitalen Arbeit mit historischen schrifttragenden Objekten in Impulsvorträgen von Fachexpert:innen theoretisch beleuchtet und in Hands-on-Übungen durch die Teilnehmenden praktisch erprobt.

#NFDI, #NFDI4Objects, #NFDI4Memory, #inschriften, #epigraphy, #handschriften, #mittelalter, #mediävistik, #medieval, #numismatics, #call, #callfor, #graduate, #workshop, #training, #researchdata 2/4

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I suggested that the decline in Gaulish writing in the 1st c CE cannot necessarily be seen as a decline in language vibrancy, comparing the status of other nonliterate indigenous languages in the Roman empire.

But I left the question open on what the ‘psychological shift’ may have been for those literate Gaulish speakers who stopped seeing a purpose in writing the language during the early Roman principate.

Anyone here have any suggestions?

@antiquidons @histodons

Despite what I post on this platform, my life is not all Basset Hounds and gardening. (Well, the Basset Hound does often manage to make my life entirely about him.)

I still occasionally carry out some academic research, and I spoke yesterday to the Changelings linguistics group here at Ohio State on the subject of ‘Gaulish literacy’.

In looking at the decline in surviving writing in Gaulish during the 1st c CE, I worked from Roman historian Ramsay MacMullen’s famous 1982 essay on ‘The epigraphic habit in the Roman empire’, where Ramsay attempted to explain the decline in Latin epigraphy from the mid 3rd c CE as being connected to ‘some very broad psychological shift’.

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@histodons

A new FWF project: "Inscribing Authority: Islamic Rule in Central Asia (10th-13th Centuries) As Reflected in Monumental Epigraphy", conducted by Dr. Viola Allegranzi, is starting at the IFI! The project will look at 10th-13th century Islamic epigraphy in central Asia, and the textual and visual communication strategies it reflects on the part of rulers from that period.

The principles of this project include looking at the epigraphy both as texts and as artefacts, looking at the ways in which these inscriptions took up and used space and attempted to achieve recognition from local communities and power brokers. The project will build an open access database to help facilitate comparative analysis and connect inscriptions to people and places we know of from other sources.

More detail here:
oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/research/cul