Digital Materiality and Sensory Experiences of Digitised Manuscripts
Digital Materiality and Sensory Experiences of Digitised Manuscripts: A phenomenological analysis on Greek religious manuscripts from Mount Athos
To what extent can digitised manuscripts stimulate our senses?
Historical objects such as manuscripts, sculptures, and paintings, are usually part of organisations, museums, and institutions that are responsible for their preservation, curation, and presentation to the audience, by creating collections. These objects either made of paper, parchment, wood, or metal are an essential part of the community or culture they are part of and represent. However, these materials can be destroyed, left us with meaningful historical and cultural gaps as, for example, happened many years ago when the Library of Alexandria was burned, and the fire “took” with it a huge amount of knowledge (Haughton, 2011). Nowadays, that digital technologies are an essential part of our lives, one way to ensure that historical collections will be available to the people, providing meaning and knowledge of the past and the present, is to transform them...