Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures

Description

The mission of the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures is to promote the study of pre-modern manuscript and epigraphic traditions in a broad comparative perspective. It relies on the strong multi-disciplinary community in Oxford while actively engaging with scholars in other institutions worldwide.

The Centre's activities are specialised and interdisciplinary, aiming to enable long-term research on the shaping and sustaining of knowledge and meaning by material conditions, both past and present. It serves as a platform for international researchers to engage in dialogue, sharing expertise and theories across subject areas. The goal is to generate discussions that transcend disciplinary boundaries and contribute to the theoretical understanding of material text cultures and their impact on knowledge production in global literate societies. The Centre adopts a multidisciplinary approach, bridging traditional academic divisions, in order to illuminate the underlying structures of human behaviours in material knowledge production throughout history.

Established in 2018, the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures is a research concentration at The Queen's College, Oxford. It originated in 2012 as an initiative by a group of Fellows at Queen's who shared a common interest in manuscript and text cultures in literate societies. Since then, it has attracted academics and postdoctoral researchers from other colleges, forming the core of a humanities research cluster focused on knowledge production and text circulation. The Centre aims to attract future graduate students to its endeavours.

The Centre currently offers a dedicated postdoctoral position in Manuscript and Text Cultures. Fundraising efforts are underway to establish an endowed doctoral studentship and support other activities of the Centre.

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2018

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University of Oxford
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