Outi Merisalo
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General description
Full professor of Romance philology since 1994.
Active JYU affiliations
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.
Fields of science
Projects as Principal investigator
- Dies Mediaevales 2019
- Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
- Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries as Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change
- Research Council of Finland
- Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern Europen Schlaraship
- Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)
- Transmission of knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- Research Council of Finland
Projects as Team Member
- Strating scholarship for the research on the Saami Books collections History in Finland
- Capdeville, Sophie Alix
- Kalevi Kuitunen Foundation
Publications and other outputs
