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Monasterys window on the roof.

Digitisation provides access to monasteries’ manuscripts

“Studying old manuscripts is a very slow and laborious process, leading to very little anything published. But if I do my job well, the things I discover can live on for centuries, helping many other researchers and taking the whole field forward.” 

  • Text Nina Venhe | Photos Damaskinos Olkinuora
Damaskinos Olkinuora.
"This is the kind of research that isn’t really supported by education policy decisions globally," Damaskinos Olkinuora criticises.
Monasterys manuscript.
Damaskinos Olkinuora studies old manuscripts, focusing mainly on Greek-language texts written between the 7th and the 14th century.

I wouldn’t talk about a calling; the monastery simply felt like I had come home to a place where I belong.