ERC Starting Grant · 2020
Latin as an Alien Script in the Medieval Latin East
Most traffic signs in the Middle East today bear city names transcribed in Latin characters, making them familiar to all. It was the opposite in the 7th c. with the Arab conquest and the Hellenisation of the empire. The Latin script disappeared from the monumental graphic landscape of the Eastern Mediterranean. Progressively until the Ottoman expansion, pilgrims, merchants, crusaders from the West re-established hospices, churches, castles, and placed on monuments and artefacts inscriptions and graffiti using the Latin alphabet, i.e. signs now exogenous. They attempted through stone, painting, mosaic and metal to appropriate graphically, spatially and symbolically, parts of the East,…
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