History of Writing
The research and activities carried out under the History of Writing Strand address writing and textuality in its many forms across material, cultural, and scholarly dimensions.
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For example, the Strand explores the development of writing systems and technologies across the medieval and modern period, including the practice and materiality of writing and associated material forms or media of textuality such as inscriptions, graffiti, manuscripts, documents, rolls, incunabula, printed books, and emergent forms of textuality like e-books, e-journals and emails.
It further includes perspectives on cultures of writing, including literacies, literate culture, literatures, and literary cultures.
Finally, it encompasses traditional cornerstones of textual research such as philology (as ‘the science of texts’) and other qualitative and quantitative approaches to text.