Comparative Diplomatics – Ottoman firmans

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Comparative Diplomatics is an exploratory workshop on documents in late antiquity and the middle ages with occasional forays into the modern era, as distinct from narrative and normative long-form texts. Its goal is twofold: to stimulate the production of new translations of late antique and medieval documentary sources that can be used in the classroom, and/or harvest some of the translations already being made; and to bring languages, subfields and approaches into contact in order to clarify methodological questions.

Each presenter will translate an unpublished document or retranslate a previously published document that needs fresh examination, and a few days ahead of time, provide the group with an edition, a translation and an image of the original.