ERC Starting Grant · 2025
RSVP aims at reassembling the rich world of scribal practices in Coptic letter writing between the 4th and 11th centuries CE. It offers an ambitious reconstruction of epistolographers’ habits, networks, and cultural identities when Coptic was the vernacular Egyptian language employed alongside official idioms (Greek and Arabic). Using a multidisciplinary approach combining paleography, digital humanities, and sociolinguistic analysis, RSVP will analyze for the first time a corpus of over 5000 Coptic letters along four axes: 1) Challenge established views on vernacular practices through expanded Coptic letter analysis. 2) Investigate literacy, paleography, and writing practices in relation…
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