Outi Merisalo
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ORCID link: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5410-9640
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Research interests
My research focuses on the transmission of language and culture in the long period between Antiquity and Early Modern Age through the study of book history: what texts were copied? How were they transmitted: by means of a papyrus roll, an inscription, the book as we know it (the so-called codex-form book) on parchment and paper? Who wished to have what text written in what language (Latin, Old French, Middle French, Medieval Italian etc.)? Which Latin scripts (epigraphic capitals, cursive, uncial, Carolingian minuscule, Gothic, Humanist script) were used to write down the texts? How was information transmitted? Since people tend to act in similar ways regardless of the period, studying the past helps us to predict contemporary and future developments.
Projects as Principal investigator
- Dies Mediaevales 2019
- Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
- Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern Europen Schlaraship
- Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)
- Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries as Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change
- Academy of Finland
- Transmission of knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- Academy of Finland
Publications
- Book production and collection (2020) Merisalo, Outi; A3; OA; 978-3-11-068438-4
- Niccolò de’ Conti in India : visioni filtrate di culture orientali nel Quattrocento romano (2020) Merisalo, Outi; A1; OA
- The first Latin translation of Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism (II) (2020) Fortuna, Stefania; et al.; A1
- The Historiae Florentini populi by Poggio Bracciolini : Genesis and Fortune of an Alternative History of Florence (2020) Merisalo, Outi; A3; OA; 978-88-6453-968-3
- Urbes antiquissimae : Renaissance influences in descriptions of towns and cities of seventeenth-eighteenth-century Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae (2020) Merisalo, Outi; A3
- Alla scoperta di biblioteche tardomedievali e della prima età moderna : La Biblioteca di Pico della Mirandola (2019) Merisalo, Outi; B1
- De usu diversitatis linguarum : Linguistic past (and present) in the dissertations supervised by Carl Abraham Clewberg (1712–1765) at the Academia Aboensis (2019) Merisalo, Outi; A3; OA; 978-3-11-063707-6
- Mani principesche : La cultura grafica di Isabella d’Este, Lucrezia Borgia e Renata di Francia (2019) Merisalo, Outi; A1; OA
- Medical Works in the Library of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola : A Preliminary Survey (2019) Merisalo, Outi; A1
- Paratext in the Manuscripts of Hartmann Schedel (2019) Merisalo, Outi; A3; OA; 978-1-5015-1332-9
- Renaessanceforum: Tidsskrift for renaessanceforskning, Vol. 15 (2019). Book in Context (2019) Merisalo, Outi; C2
- Transmission of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2019) Merisalo, Outi; et al.; C2
- Die Humanismusrezeption im Königreich Schweden im 16. Jahrhundert (2018) Merisalo, Outi; B2
- Ludwig Traube and Philology (2017) Merisalo, Outi; A3
- Manuscrits de médecine à la Bibliothèque du Collège de Sorbonne : Le cas du traité pseudo-galénique De spermate (2017) Merisalo, Outi; B2
- Memoria uberior. La bibliothèque de Hartmann Schedel de Nuremberg (2017) Merisalo, Outi; B2
- "Musta minä muiden nähden / walkia oman emännän, id est niger ego aliis, candidus propriae uxori videor". Daniel Juslenius zur finnischen Kulturgeschichte (2017) Merisalo, Outi; A3; OA
- The first Latin translation of Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism (I) (2017) Fortuna, Stefania; et al.; A1
- Baldassarre Turini, funzionario e mecenate (2016) Merisalo, Outi; A4
- I codici in scrittura latina di Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589) a Caprarola e al Palazzo della Cancelleria nel 1589 (2016) Merisalo, Outi; A1; OA