Crafting Documents explores how changing ways of making ink and preparing parchment affected the work of scribes who produced written documents in the key transitional period between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, c. 500 to c. 800 CE. Through the analysis of a corpus of around 500 identificatory labels, that were originally attached to relics of saints and holy places, it will generate a new understanding of the materiality of the written word and expose the role of the saints’ cults in fostering these craft activities. The project will achieve this through a ground-breaking partnership between medievalists from the University of Oxford and scientists from the Analysis of Artefacts and Cultural Assets Division of the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und-prüfung (BAM) in Germany.

Find out more here: www.history.ox.ac.uk/crafting-documents-c.500-c.800-ce

Join us to celebrate the official launch of the project, which is an in-person event hosted by the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures.
This will be followed by a drinks reception.

To join the live broadcast via Zoom please contact: mailto:ana.dias@history.ox.ac.uk