Beyond the Late Antique Heritage – The Highpoint and Revival of Ethiopian Hagiographic Manuscript Culture (C05)

• Subject Area: African, American and Oceania Studies
• Term: from 2011 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181924784

This sub-project will investigate selected case studies of hagiographic manuscripts to trace the transformation that Ethiopian Christian manuscript culture underwent from the Middle Ages until print was introduced in the twentieth century.The topic is resulted by reasons of continuity from the previous projects of the SFB and addresses a crucial point. The aim of the sub-project is to investigate the reasons for the early form of hagiographic collections being abandoned and the reasons for replacing early multiple-text manuscripts written in several languages by other types of manuscripts.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 950: Collaborative Research Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
• Applicant Institution: Universität Hamburg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Alessandro Bausi