X‐Ray Reading of Large‐size Unopened Ancient Manuscripts
Fauzia Albertin, Eva Peccenini, Matteo Bettuzzi, Rosa Brancaccio, Maria Pia Morigi, A. Patera, Iwan Jerjen, S. Hartmann, R. Kaufmann · Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) · 2016
Since 2011 the Centre is engaged in fundamental research investigating a broad range of Asian, African, and European manuscript cultures represented by material artefacts both from a historical and comparative perspective.The variety of research fields and academic disciplines, as well as the large number of cultures under investigation allowed for overcoming simplistic attitudes, such as considering historically contingent European developments to be generally legitimate, or naive dichotomies ("East-West"), considered self-evident not only in Europe, but also in Asia and Africa.Within the CSMC as well as the SFB, natural sciences and informatics play an active role in shaping interdisciplinary research by utilization of methods and devices rooted in e.g.physico-chemical measurement technologies -thus going beyond the basic support of scholars from the Humanities.Our long-term goals include the establishment of an interdisciplinary research field dealing with generalized manuscript studies, and the development of sustainable and functional tools.The second conference dedicated to natural sciences and technology in manuscript analysis continues our attempt of bringing together scholars and scientists from the fields of the humanities, informatics, chemistry, physics, and biology.We hope that this conference will again provide a forum for discussing various aspects of manuscript analysis and presenting new results, technologies, and approaches.Contributions reflect original research work stressing the impact of the natural sciences, technology and informatics in the following areas