Still Image/Graphics
project: The Hockliffe project
Grant Holder: Professor Nigel Wood
"The Hockliffe Collection contains in excess of a thousand children's books which date from between 1685 and the early twentieth century. Most of the books in the collection were published between 1740 and 1840, a period which is generally considered to encompass the birth, infancy and growth to maturity of children's literature in English. Before the 1740s, only a handful of authors had directed their writing at children, few of whom, if any, saw it as their task to amuse or entertain their readers. [read more]
project: Urban connectivity in Iron-Age and Roman Southern Spain
Grant Holder: Professor Simon Keay
The Urban Connectivity in Iron Age and Roman southern Spain Project, funded by the AHRC between 2002 and 2005 with subsequent support by the University of Southampton and institutions in Seville, has been studying changing social, economic and geographical relationships between some 195 towns and nucleated settlements in central and western Baetica between c.500 BC and AD 200. The project has the following five research questions, based on data gathered in the field and through archival research between 2002 and 2008:
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project: Conceptions of cultural studies in Cassirer's theory of symbolic forms
Grant Holder: Professor Roger Stephenson
"Ernst Cassirer was a noted philosopher of culture and the sciences at Hamburg until 1933, and he was granted a LL.D. by the law faculty of the University of Glasgow – hence it is appropriate for the University of Glasgow to be the site of this project. Cassirer’s most creative period in Germany occurred after he discovered the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, and this epoch is best documented by the correspondence and other documents housed today in the archive of the Warburg Institute, part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. [read more]
project: Digital catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the Western Collections of the British Library (DigCIM)
Grant Holder: Kathleen Doyle
The Project provides catalogue descriptions and images of illuminated manuscripts in the British Library's collection on a collection-by-collection basis. Thus far, entries for illuminated manuscripts in all of the Library's collections are available online and can be found via the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts website at:
www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts
Work on the Royal collection is in progress, funded by a further AHRC grant (see the entry for the Royal project). [read more]
project: The corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture
Grant Holder: Dr K P Dukes
The aim of this project is to publish catalogues of all the Anglo-Saxon carved stones, fully illustrated by high quality photographs, with general discussions concerning their relationships and significance, and full bibliographic references. Initially the regional volumes are published by the British Academy, but when the volumes are no longer in the Academy list they are published in shortened form on the internet. [read more]
project: CASSS Digital Archive
Grant Holder: Professor Rosemary Cramp
The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS) is a project to identify, record and publish in a consistent format, the earliest English sculpture dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries. Much of this material was unpublished before the work began, but it is of crucial importance as pointing to the earliest settlements and artistic achievements of the Anglo-Saxon/Pre-Norman English. It ranges from our earliest Christian field monuments (free-standing carved crosses), and innovative decorative elements and furnishings of churches, to humble grave-markers. [read more]
project: Medieval settlements and landscapes in the Whittlewood area
Grant Holder: Professor Christopher Dyer
A multi-disciplinary investigation of medieval settlement and landscape in a carefully selected area of England, building on a succesful pilot project. The existence of both villages and hamlets gives an opportunity to explain the divergence between these settlement forms in an environmental and social context. [read more]
project: Pockets of history: production and consumption of women's tie-on pockets in Britain from 1690-1914
Grant Holder: Ms Barbara Burman
The project charts the production and consumption of women’s tie-on pockets in Britain over two centuries. These textile artefacts, familiar to Lucy Locket, were popular before the introduction of handbags in the later nineteenth century but are now largely unknown. Their capacious form, plain or decorated, and their varied contents exemplified everyday work, tastes, and skills of women across the social spectrum. They were made at home throughout the period by individuals for their own use and also manufactured commercially from the mid-18th century. [read more]
project: Reconstructing the Quseiri Arabic Documents (RQAD)
Grant Holder: Professor Dionisius Agius
The research objective is to read or reconstruct the Arabic documents found at the harbour town of Quseir on the Egyptian Red Sea coast during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (13th-15th centuries)
ie:
a) to evaluate the texts combined with archeological enquiry;
b) to examine the content and context within the framework of the long distance trade and pilgrim traffic from Quesir as a chief port of the Red Sea region and its trade contacts with the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
c) to raise public and scholarly awareness about the significance of the documents as a source of academic, ed [read more]
project: The Canterbury Tales Project
Grant Holder: Dr Peter Robinson
The Canterbury Tales Project aims to investigate the textual tradition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to achieve a better understanding of the history of its composition and publication before 1500. [read more]