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Publication on 'Books Known Only by Title: Exploring the Gendered Structures of First Millennium Imagined Libraries'

The first publication from the CAS project "Books Known Only by Title: Exploring the Gendered Structures of First Millennium Imagined Libraries" led by professors Liv Ingeborg Lied and Marianne Kartzow Bjelland in 2020/2021, has been released.

31 January 2023

Alumna of the Month: Liv Ingeborg Lied

Liv Ingeborg Lied, professor at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society (MF), served as project leader at CAS back in 2020/2021 together with professor Marianne Bjelland Kartzow. Their project, 'Books Known Only by Title: Exploring the Gendered Structures of First Millennium Imagined Libraries', delved into the largely unexplored category of "books known only by the title" in texts from the first millennium, focusing specifically on postulated books associated with female figures from the biblical narrative.

Books known only by title: A widespread and misunderstood phenomenon

Scholars at the Centre for Advanced Study have studied the use and functions of imagined books and argue that we need to rethink the first-millennium library in light of their findings.

23 October 2020

Books known only by title: a widespread but unexplored phenomenon

CAS scholars argue that we need to acknowledge the diversity of the first millennium library, which includes references to books that may have never existed as anything other than fictitious titles.

19 December 2019

CAS Fellow receives ERC Consolidator Grant

Former and returning CAS Fellow, Hugo Lundhaug, receives prestigious funding from the European Research Council (ERC) to study apocryphal texts and traditions in Coptic manuscripts, further strengthening the CAS project he will join in 2020.