GLOSSAM is a four-year research project (2022–2026) based in the Moore Institute at the University of Galway, directed by Dr Pádraic Moran. The project is funded by the Irish Research Council Laureate Awards.

The GLOSSAM project will enhance our understanding of reading, education, scholarship, and knowledge transfer in the pre-modern world, by creating new narratives, conceptual frameworks, digital tools and methodological models for the study of glosses.

Glosses are the paratexts transmitted between the lines and in the margins of manuscript books, micro-texts that control how the central texts were read and interpreted. Glosses are as ubiquitous as books themselves. Recent research has discovered that they are a truly global phenomenon, found throughout the literate cultures of Europe, the Middle East, and South and East Asia. The potential now exists to create a new narrative for the history of glossing in an expanded global context.

The project has five components: G1 – G2 – L1 – L2 – M

Principal Investigator: Dr Pádraic Moran
Twitter: @Glossam_project

Researchers

Dr Pádraic Moran

Principal Investigator; lead researcher for components G1, M

Pádraic Moran is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Galway, with research interests in the cultural history of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, focusing on education, scholarship and language interaction—especially Latin (including Hiberno-Latin), Greek and Old Irish.

He has published widely on Latin and Old Irish grammars, glosses and glossaries. These include digital editions of early Irish glossaries and Irish glosses on Priscian’s Latin grammar; a 592-page monograph edition of the seventh-century text De origine scoticae linguae (O’Mulconry’s Glossary); Irish manuscripts of Latin texts; and broader comparative cultural studies, with a special interest in Japan and East Asia.

Website: http://www.pmoran.ie
E-mail: padraic.moran@universityofgalway.ie

 

Chiara Corongiu

PhD Researcher, component L1

Chiara Corongiu is a graduate of the University of Cagliari, where she studied Classical Philology. She has broad research interests in Latin and Greek language and literature. Her role on the GLOSSAM project involves analysing the reception of Latin literature and the Latin learned tradition based on the evidence of glosses in Irish manuscripts.

 

Dr Mary Sweeney

Postdoctoral Researcher, component L2

Mary Sweeney completed her PhD at the University of Galway on Hellenistic Judean identity in the Exagoge of Ezekiel.

E-mail: msweeney@universityofgalway.ie

 

Vacancy

Computer Science Specialist, component G2

For more information, contact Pádraic Moran.

Project Details

Year(s): 2022–2026

Funded By: Irish Research Council Laureate Awards

Website: http://www.glossam.ie/