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

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Why Do We Need to Study Inks?

Ira Rabin and Oliver Hahn, BAM & Hamburg University, Germany 

Katharina Kaska, Austrian National Library, Austria, 2018

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Material Studies of Historic Inks: Transition from Carbon to Iron-Gall Inks

Ira Rabin, 2021

HISTORY

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 The care of relics in early medieval Rome

Julia Smith, 2014

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Portable Christianity: Relics in the Medieval West (c.700–1200) 

Julia Smith, 2010