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oa Netwerkfilologie en het ecosysteem van het meest gelezen Middelnederlandse boek
Een korte introductie van het Pages of Prayer-project1
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Queeste, Volume 30, Issue 2, Dec 2023, p. 217 - 230
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- 01 Dec 2023
Abstract
This contribution introduces the project Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550 [prayer] (erc Starting Grant, grant no. 101041517), which started at Leiden University on 1 March 2023. The aim of the project is to conduct the first large-scale investigation into the vast corpus of Middle Dutch prayer books of which the mainstay are books with one or more of the texts of ‘the Book of Hours’ in the translation ascribed to Geert Grote (1340-1384). Pages of Prayer aims to chart the entire ‘ecosystem’ in which the Dutch-language prayer books flourished and thrived. Apart from the shared transmission of texts in manuscripts and printed books, the project aims to map the inclusion of images, the roles of producers, owners, patrons, places, devotions, and the relations between all of these aspects over a long period of time by developing a cross-disciplinary approach: network philology. This approach aims to combine quantitative network analysis with advanced qualitative analysis to reach meaningful interpretations of the data.