Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170104296

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170104296

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Document loss in pre-modern Europe. This project aims to map out the social and cultural effects of paper’s introduction to Europe from 1200-1800. After centuries of writing on parchment, Europeans began to use paper in the late Middle Ages. Paper proved both a gift and a curse to Europeans. Important documents could easily be destroyed or lost. This project will investigate loss as a cultural problem in history. It will trace both unintentional losses (fires, rot, vermin) and intentional ones (censorship, document suppression, prohibitions). The project expects to uncover how obliteration led to both opened repression and blank-slate reinvention, a powerful form of cultural creativity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-08-2017

End Date: 30-06-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $253,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Europe's Past |

Other Keywords

European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) | Historical Studies | Understanding Europe's Past

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