Descrizione del progetto
L’eredità di Grímur Thorkelin negli studi gaelici
Lo studioso islandese-danese Grímur Thorkelin (1752-1829), la cui lingua madre era l’islandese, ebbe un ruolo determinante nella letteratura e cultura gaelica nell’Europa del XVIII secolo. Thorkelin concentrò la sua attenzione sull’Irlanda, l’Isola di Man e la Scozia di lingua gaelica, riunendo una considerevole raccolta di manoscritti sia del Medioevo che del primo periodo moderno, tuttora importante per comprendere la storia gaelica in Gran Bretagna e in Irlanda. Il progetto Thorkelin, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di registrare e catalogare la collezione. Il progetto studierà anche il ruolo di Thorkelin come collezionista internazionale e l’influenza che ha esercitato sulla percezione dell’identità etnica e culturale nel XVIII secolo.
Obiettivo
This project focuses on the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Thorkelin (1752-1829) and his contact with the literature and culture of the Gaelic-speaking world in the late-eighteenth century. Commissioned by the King of Denmark to travel through Britain and Ireland in search of historical material relating to the history of Scandinavia, Thorkelin took a particular interest in the Gaelic culture of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. This contact is primarily evidenced by his substantial collection of Gaelic-language manuscripts, both medieval and early modern, now preserved in Copenhagen's Royal Library. This project, in the first instance, seeks to document and catalogue these manuscripts and to open their contents up to further study. It also addresses a number of questions raised by the collection. These include the dynamic between manuscript and print in Gaelic and in Thorkelin's native Icelandic. Thorkelin's role as as international patron of scribes and collector of manuscripts will also be addressed. As an historian, Thorkelin's framing of Gaelic history, and indeed his framing of Icelandic and Scandinavian history in Britain and Ireland, exerted considerable influence on the eighteenth-century conceptions of ethnic and cultural identity, this will be addressed in relation to Scotland in particular. This project therefore takes Thorkelin and his important collection of Gaelic manuscripts, using them as a prism though which to examine questions relating to contemporary eighteenth-century concerns, most especially around literary and scribal culture. Home to experts on manuscript studies, textual philology and Icelandic Studies, the Arnamagnæan Institute, within the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at UCPH is the only place where I would want to carry out this research which will push the intellectual, national and disciplinary boundaries of the current 'state of the art' of Gaelic manuscript studies.
Campo scientifico
CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.
CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinatore
1165 Kobenhavn
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