Partner Project

Full Title: From antiquity to community. Re-thinking classical heritage through citizen humanities.

Participating Institutions: University of Southern Denmark, University of Verona (work package Manuscript Heritage*)

Source of Funding: The AntCom project has received funding from Horizon Europe Program for Research and Innovation under the action Horizon MSCA Doctoral Network, Grant Agreement No. 101073543.

Project Leaders: Prof. Aglae Pizzone, University of Southern Denmark (PI), Prof. Paolo Scattolin, University of Verona (PI WP Manuscript Heritage)

PhD fellow: Charlotte Epple, University of Southern Denmark

Project website: https://antcom.eu/

AntCom brings together four European universities to investigate how classical heritage has shaped and continues to influence diverse European identities. The project trains ten early-stage researchers and focuses on three main areas of evidence—manuscript, linguistic, and ritual-narrative heritage. AntCom emphasizes citizen humanities and advanced imaging technologies to reveal hidden layers in manuscripts and to document living cultural practices. The project aims to digitize, analyze, and reinterpret classical heritage while engaging communities in rethinking their past, ultimately contributing new insights to both scholarship and public understanding.

Within the AntCom context, the PhD project Binding fragments in the Herlufsholm Collection focuses on loose and in situ manuscript fragments at the University Library of Southern Denmark. Around forty fragment binding have been photographed and will be published on Fragmentarium, including descriptions.

*A full list of partners can be found on the Antcom website.