The project “Epigraphies of Pious Travel” (duration: 2021-2025, funded by the Austrian Science Fund and the Russian Fund for Basic Research) aims to collect and document Greek and Old Russian inscriptions left by medieval pilgrims. Moreover, it will try to determinate the profile of a typically medieval pilgrim of the Christian east and to reconstruct and visualize pilgrimage routes.

Within the framework of the project, the pilgrim inscriptions will be made available in an open access online database. In addition, the pilgrimage routes will be made visible on the basis of the inscribed testimonies in an interactive map that will also be openly accessible. Alongside creating the scholarly tools, the project will encompass significant research agenda, with numerous publications and a major conference to be held in Vienna.

For more information see here.