I have walked many, many miles with my children over the years, and both of them will make excellent companions on this journey. My son, Ruairidh (usually Ru), joins me for the next of these walks. He is five years old and not yet at school. I am excited to find out what strange and […]

The CAHSS Cultural Heritage Research Theme supports research collaborations across all the schools of arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Edinburgh, mobilising expertise across disciplines to produce new insights and address major societal challenges. As the Cultural Heritage portion of the theme, we work with creative industries, museums and galleries, heritage and conservation […]

About Edinburgh For anyone needing a visual, here is a movie (format .mov; 16Mb) showing the city of Edinburgh from the top of Blackford Hill. The latter is one of Edinburgh’s 7 extinct volcanos which is just 5 minutes walk from the University’s science campus, Kings Buildings, on the south side of the city of […]

Today, we’re celebrating the first birthday of the Caliphal Finances blog! A year ago, we, postdocs Noëmie Lucas and Eline Scheerlinck, launched this website to give the ERC project Caliphal Finances an online presence. Since then, we’ve published over 50 posts, documenting the activities and research of the team. This year, we’ve shared 18 “Spotlights,” […]

Welcome to the website of the Caliphal Finances project! This website is the online space of the Caliphal Finances project to share upcoming events, collaborations and conversations with other researchers and research teams, and other exciting news. We will also regularly shine a spotlight on specific documents, objects, or issues that we are grappling with […]

This series of interviews shines a spotlight on researchers working on or with the Caliphal Finances project. Each interview showcases the variety of scholarship connected to our research. This week, we feature Lajos Berkes, Greek and Coptic papyrologist, Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the at the Theological Faculty of Humboldt University in Berlin. Lajos recently […]