These are past publications by Crafting Documents team members which consider methods of scientific and historical analysis that provided the basis for our current research. They are available for users as part of a toolkit containing digital materials and publications about the cult of saints in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, and the scientific study of manuscripts.
SCIENCE
Why Do We Need to Study Inks?
Ira Rabin and Oliver Hahn, BAM & Hamburg University, Germany
Katharina Kaska, Austrian National Library, Austria, 2018
Material Studies of Historic Inks: Transition from Carbon to Iron-Gall Inks
Ira Rabin, 2021
HISTORY
The care of relics in early medieval Rome
Julia Smith, 2014
Portable Christianity: Relics in the Medieval West (c.700–1200)
Julia Smith, 2010