Linkage - International - Grant ID: LX0455661

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LX0455661

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Madrid Skylitzes: Electronic reproduction and international interdisciplinary study of the first illustrated history book. With its 574 miniatures, the Madrid Skylitzes is the only known illustrated Greek chronicle (and the sole source for certain periods). But is it Europe's first illustrated history book or copied from a Constantinopolitan original? Token Greek resistance to the increasing Latinization of tri-cultural Sicily or Norman propaganda to undermine Byzantine claims to the island? Isolated studies have produced starkly contradictory answers. Recent cross-disciplinary investigations by an international team have yielded better results. The collaborators will apply the methods of codicology, palaeography, stylistics, art history, historiography, computational linguistics, narratology and intertextuality to elucidate this key cultural product.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 21-09-2004

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Linkage - International

Funding Amount: $10,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literary Studies | Greek | Art History And Appreciation | Textual Transmission And The Material Record |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Art History And Appreciation | Greek | Languages and Literature | Literary Studies | Textual Transmission And The Material Record | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies | Visual Communication

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