Vanessa de OBALDIA

Academic Year:
2024/2025

Field of Study:
History

Research Program:
DigiHum

Affiliation:
ERC Starting Grant MAMEMS, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Position:
Affiliated Scholar

Country:
Great Britain/Panama

Research project: Simonopetra Monastery's Ottoman Archive: The Cataloguing and Prosopographical Contextualisation of the 17th Century Archival Documents of an Athonite Monastery

The primary objective of the project is to catalogue, transliterate, and translate the 17th century Ottoman archival documents from Simonopetra Monastery; the secondary objectives are the presentations, exhibitions, and publications. The project’s originality and value is in it representing the first comprehensive cataloguing of the entire 17th century Ottoman archive of one Athonite monastery, but also in the research output, dissemination, and artistic and cultural public engagement.