Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures

数字革命让我们看到了一个重要的历史事实，即图书的持久文化和经济价值始终取决于它对不同媒体的适应能力，今天从纸质书到电子书(再回来)，以及过去从手稿书到纸质书(反之亦然)。MSCA博士网络“重新调停早期图书：过去与未来”关注的是15世纪和16世纪的图书生产者(抄写员、印刷商、企业家)如何协商手稿图书和印刷图书之间的动态关系并适应不断变化的市场挑战的方式；它展示了这些文化和经济谈判与现代世界的持续相关性。为此，它将重新调解早期图书出版商、书商、博物馆、创意和遗产产业的当今组织的利益与学术研究的利益统一起来，具有双重目标：(1)让新一代中世纪主义者和早期现代主义者参与创新和协作的研究计划，提出关于书籍和文字的历史及其在数字环境中的未来的基本和跨学科问题；以及(2)为这一博士网络招募的研究人员配备高水平的可转让技能和能力，这些技能和能力不仅可以在学术环境中获得和应用，还可以通过借调和培训讲习班的方式获得和应用，这些技能和能力是由九个与我们的研究议程直接相关的欧洲非学术合作伙伴提供的。

The digital revolution is opening our eyes to the important historical truth that the enduring cultural and economic value of the book has always depended on its adaptability to different media, today from printed book to e-book (and back again), and in the past from manuscript book to printed book (and vice versa). The MSCA Doctoral Network "Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures" focuses on the ways in which 15th- and 16th-century book producers (scribes, printers, entrepreneurs) negotiated the dynamic relations between the manuscript book and the printed book and adapted to the evolving challenges of the market; and it demonstrates the continuing relevance of these cultural and economic negotiations to the modern world. To this end, it unites the interests of present-day organisations that re-mediate the early book - publishers, bookdealers, museums, creative and heritage industries - with those of academic scholarship, with the double aim of (1) engaging a new generation of medievalists and early modernists in an innovative and collaborative research programme that asks fundamental and interdisciplinary questions about the history of the book and the written word and its future in a digital environment; and (2) equipping the researchers recruited to this Doctoral Network with high-level transferable skills and competences to be acquired and applied not just in academic settings but also through secondments and training workshops provided by a suite of nine European non-academic partners that have a direct interest in, and relevance to, our research agenda.