Titulli i Disertacionit: Kodikët mesjetarë të Shqipërisë: Korpusi dorëshkrimor dhe konteksti i tij historiko-kulturor (shek. IX-XV)
Autori: Andi Rembeci
- Institucioni: Universiteti i Tiranës, Fakulteti i Historisë dhe i Filologjisë, Departamenti i Historisë
- Fusha e studimit: Histori
- Data e publikimit: 07.10.2026
- Disertacioni gjendet i publikuar në Gjuhën Shqipe
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Abstrakti: OF THE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION “Medieval Codices of Albania: The Manuscript Corpus and Its Historical-Cul- tural Context, 9th-15th Centuries” This doctoral dissertation examines the medieval codices of Albania as a complex manuscript corpus whose significance extends far beyond the boundaries of archival description or national cultural heritage. The study approaches these manuscripts as material, textual, artistic, liturgical, institutional, and historical objects. They are not treated merely as carriers of sacred or theological texts, nor simply as rare museum artifacts, but as living witnesses to the written culture of the Byzantine and post-Byz- antine world in the Albanian lands. Through their scripts, materials, decoration, litur- gical organization, marginal notes, ownership records, inventories, later bindings, res- torations, and histories of preservation, these codices reveal the long life of the book as a cultural object. They illuminate the role of Albanian ecclesiastical and monastic cen- ters in the reception, use, production, protection, and transmission of Byzantine manu- script culture between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. The central aim of the dissertation is to place the medieval codices preserved in Albania, or historically connected with Albanian territories, within the wider frame- works of Byzantine, Balkan, Epirote, Italo-Byzantine, Adriatic, and Mediterranean book culture. The work pays particular attention to manuscripts preserved in the Central State Archive of Albania, especially those belonging to Fond 488, but it also extends its inquiry to codices now held abroad, above all in British collections, which preserve direct connections with Berat and its ecclesiastical and cultural history. This expanded perspective is necessary because the present location of a manuscript does not always correspond to its place of production, use, or historical meaning. A codex may have been copied in Constantinople, Epirus, South Italy, or another Byzantine center; used for centuries in Berat, Korça, Vlora, Gjirokastra, or another ecclesiastical environment; later transferred abroad; and eventually catalogued in a modern library. The dissertation therefore reconstructs the biographies of manuscripts as mobile objects that crossed institutional, geographic, and cultural boundaries. The research is built on an interdisciplinary methodology. Paleography is used to analyze the forms of writing, the rhythm of the script, the relationship between majus- cule and minuscule, the typology of letterforms, and the possible links of manuscripts with particular scriptoria or graphic traditions. Codicology examines the physical struc- ture of the manuscripts: parchment or paper, format, quire construction, ruling systems, pricking, page layout, binding, later interventions, and traces of use. Historical analysis places the codices within the political, ecclesiastical, and cultural contexts of the medi- eval Albanian lands and the Byzantine world