Jonas Fischer

I am a Doctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki. I have a background in Ancient History and I’m currently a member of the MSCA doctoral network MECANO and the Helsinki Computational History Group. My research focus is on the presence of the classics in early modern British book history, especially regarding the reception and reuse of ancient texts and their publication patterns in the printing industry.

Research areas: Digital Humanities; Classical Reception; Early Modern Studies; Britain; Metadata Analysis; Text Reuse; Intellectual History.

To Wander Among Ruins

How do we perceive the ruins of antiquity in our current age - and how has this perception evolved throughout time? Whether it is through the eyes of the medieval peasant, reveries of the Grand Tour period, or Instagram, perception of the ancient world has always been framed by the culture of the beholder. This post considers how processes of canonization have constructed the gaze we cast upon archaeological remains.