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Aidan Conti is a Professor at the University of Bergen, affiliated with the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies. His research focuses on medieval manuscripts, textual transmission, and the cultural history of literature. Key areas include the study of scribes' practices, gender in medieval writing, and the intersection of medievalism with contemporary culture. Recent work includes a groundbreaking 2025 study on female scribes in medieval manuscripts using colophons and bibliometric analysis.
Publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches, such as analyzing post-punk Gothic aesthetics through a medieval lens and tracing the transmission of liturgical texts like the Homiliary of Angers. Conti has contributed to paleography, textual criticism, and the history of reading, with research extending to Norwegian medieval manuscripts and their connections with continental Europe.
He organizes academic initiatives like the 'Latin in Bergen' project and collaborates in international research groups, including Literature & Religion and Antiquity and the Classical Tradition. While no scientific awards are explicitly mentioned, his work reflects significant scholarly impact in manuscript studies and medieval cultural history.
