The Syriac World Rediscovered

Susannah Gold: Fruit of a meticulous interdisciplinary work, Syriaca. org portal is the cornerstone upon which Peter Brown’s Balzan research project entitled «Figures in a Landscape» has been built.The project seems to have been an enormous undertaking. All of the details, languages and cultures that had to be investigated together with the geographical scope of the work is most impressive. How did you organize the team?

Peter Brown: We were very fortunate indeed. I had a wonderful cohort of graduate students, among them Professor Michelson who was one of the leading members. There was real excitement among the students for the project who were much more connected to the idea of using the Inter-net and all of its capabilities and devices. Thanks to the Internet we could think large.