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Old and New · How Old and New Media Influenced Each Other and Society in Iceland during the 16th and 17th Centuries

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Период: 2015-06-01 → 2017-05-31
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Накратко на български

Взаимовлиянието между печатните книги и ръкописите в Исландия през XVI и XVII век показва как новите медии променят старите. Анализът на тези исторически процеси помага за по-доброто разбиране на съвременните технологични промени в обществото.

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How Old and New Media Influenced Each Other and Society in Iceland during the 16th and 17th Centuries

Today we live in a digital age. Pupils use mobile phones and laptops instead of pen and paper. Students use google instead of libraries and encyclopedias. The change of media is, however, not totally new: nearly six hundred years ago Gutenberg invented the printing press, which came to supplant manuscripts, hand-written books. And like today, the new medium, print, did not supplant the old medium, manuscripts, immediately. Rather, it was a slow process that involved not only influence from the old medium on the new, but also the influence of the new medium on the old. The latter, the influence of the new medium of print on the old medium of handwriting has never been examined before. By analysing these media and social changes of the past we will understand similar, current developments better. The objectives of this project concerned: a) The influence of a new medium on an old, existing medium. b) The utilisation of features of the new medium to achieve specific aims and goals. c) The impact of this utilisation on society. Methods to conduct the study of title pages and their sociological impact included content analysis from literary studies, quantitative codicological analysis from book and manuscript studies and iconographic/iconologic analysis from art history. I focused on Icelandic manuscripts written from the 16th and 17th century. Print came around 1530 to Iceland but manuscript production did not stop after that because there was only one printing press in the country which furthermore belonged to the Church. The Church had no interest to print anything else than religious and edifying books. Everything else, even law books, had to be copied by hand. Nevertheless, manuscript production grew to new quantitative and qualitative heights. These younger manuscripts include features of printed books. The focus of this EU-funded project was on title pages, as they are a truly innovative feature of printed books that we also find in post-Gutenberg manuscripts.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The influence of a the new medium of print on the old, existing medium of handwriting has never been examined before. The printing press came already around 1530 to Iceland and the earliest printed books were strongly influenced by handwritten manuscripts, which is well documented. A phenomenon which has not yet been analysed is that, as time went on, books in return influenced manuscripts. Manuscript production did indeed not stop after 1530, but grew to new quantitative and qualitative heights, including features of printed books such as title pages. I therefore propose to conduct a study on the relationship between books and manuscripts of the 16th and 17th centuries. The focus will be on title pages, as they are a truly innovative feature of printed books that we also find in post-Gutenberg manuscripts.The objectives of this project concern:a)The influence of a new medium on an existing mediumb)The utilisation of features of the new medium to achieve specific aims and goalsc)The impact of this utilisation on societyMethods to conduct the study of title pages and their sociological impact include content analysis from literary studies, quantitative codicological analysis from book and manuscript studies, and iconographic/iconologic analysis from art history.This project has ground-breaking potential. It will provide insight into the ways features of new media were incorporated into existing media and how they were utilised. It will be the first systematic survey of its kind in Iceland and, concerning the influence of printed books on post-Gutenberg manuscripts, internationally. It will also be one of the first systematic interdisciplinary studies.It will be the forerunner of a larger project about Icelandic book and manuscript history and media changes with more researchers involved. The beneficiary has perfect conditions for interdisciplinary research and career development at the host institution and secondment and will complete the first step toward a full professorship.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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