Current Research
Gloss.IT.
Celtic and Latin glossing traditions: uncovering early medieval language contact and knowledge transfer
- Project Duration:
- 2024-2029
- Projectlead:
- Bernhard Bauer, Institut Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung, Universität Graz
- Financed By:
- EU Horizon Europe ERC CONSOLIDATOR-GRANT, Grant agreement No. 101123203
- Description:
- The Gloss.IT. project focuses on exploring the origins of early medieval language and intellectual exchange in Western Europe. Utilising annotations or 'glosses' found in medieval manuscripts as primary sources, the project aims to deepen our understanding of the linguistic and cultural ties of this period. Despite the rich insights these glosses provide, their full potential has been hindered by a lack of comprehensive editions. To address this, GLOSSIT will create digital editions of key manuscripts of works by Bede and Priscian which contain Insular Celtic (Breton, Irish and Welsh) and Latin glosses.
ARITHMETIC
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
- Project Duration:
- 2022-2027
- Projectlead:
- Michaela Wiesinger, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Financed By:
- EU Horizon Europe ERC STARTING-GRANT, 101039572
- Description:
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How 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 15th and early 16th centuries. Translation and adaptation of arithmetic treatises and manuals provided access to mathematical knowledge for new groups of people, shaped the practices of reckoning, and opened new ways of teaching arithmetic skills to persons without higher education. These efforts also endowed European vernaculars with new linguistic forms of abstraction and thus enhanced their potential to serve as a tool in the modern scientific revolution. ARITHMETIC will study handwritten German arithmetic treatises from their first appearance around 1400 until the time when printed reckoning-books became easily available at the beginning of the 16th century.
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