PAThs: Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths. An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in Their Original Context. Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage

Title

PAThs: Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths. An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in Their Original Context. Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage

Alternative Title

PAThs

Description

en PAThs is a project -- which has been funded for six years (2016-2022) by an ERC Advanced Grant (project no. 687567) and is now running thanks to other forms of finantial support -- whose goal is to provide an in-depth diachronical understanding and effective representation of the geography of Coptic literary production and in particular of the corpus of literary writings, almost exclusively of religious contents, produced in Egypt between the 3rd and the 13th centuries in the Coptic language.
PAThs (complete title: “Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths. An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in Their Original Context. Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage”) takes an original and pluridisciplinary approach, combining philology, codicology, palaeography, archaeology, archaeometry, and digital humanities, in order to explore the process of production, copying, usage, dissemination, and storage of Coptic works in relation to the concrete geographical contexts of origin of both the texts themselves and their related writing supports.
PAThs is not a project that emerges ex nihilo, but it takes advantage of some successful initiatives whose results will constitute one of the bases of the research work, although they do not overlap with the goals of this new project. The Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari (CMCL) is the most important of these projects.

Date

November 1, 2016 – October 31, 2022

Status

Completed

Subject

eng SH6_4 Medieval and post-medieval archaeologies

eng SH6_6 Digital, computational, virtual and geospatial archaeologies

eng SH6_7 Historiography, theory and methods of history, including the analysis of digital data

Continued

Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari

Funded By

ERC Advanced Grant (project no. 687567)

Homepage

http://paths.uniroma1.it

Project Contributor(s)

Julian Bogdani

Paolo Rosati

Ilaria Rossetti

Agostino Soldati

Francesco Berno

Ivan Miroshnikov

Alexandros Tsakos

Eliana Dal Sasso

Tea Ghigo

Marta Addessi

Nathan Carlig

Annunziata Di Rienzo

Francesco Valerio

Angelo Colonna

Creator

Paola BuziSee all items with this value

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Dipartimento di Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo