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latest blog
by Lisa Fagin Davis 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Medieval manuscripts in Newfoundland... https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/manuscript-road-trip-ca… - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 17 Dunster St., Suite 202 Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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by travis＠lacuna.ca 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

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Fwd: Call for papers: Monastic Journeys from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
by Roueche, Charlotte 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

From: Rapp Claudia [mailto:claudia.rapp@univie.ac.at] Subject: Call for papers: Monastic Journeys from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages Please take note (and disseminate as appropriate) of the enclosed call for papers for a conference on 'Monastic Journeys', the third in a series of events organized by several French academic institutions. It will be hosted at the Division of Byzantine Research (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences) in Vienna, 17 to 19 November 2016. With kind regards, Claudia Rapp

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Digital corpus on Arnau de Vilanova
by Sebastià Giralt 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

Dear colleagues, I think this list is an excellent audience to properly present our research project in progress, Arnau DB. Digital corpus on Arnau de Vilanova. You are invited to visit our website < http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/arnau/en >, where you will find: - A rigorous up-to-date view of the figure and works of the physician and religious reformer <http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/arnau/arnaudevilanova> Arnau de Vilanova (Arnold of Villanova, Arnaldus de Villanova), in contrast to the distorted perception that is still all too common today even in academy. - Access to the databases <http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/arnau/database> that our team is developing on 1) The works attributed to Arnau, both authentic and apochryphal (medical, religious and alchimical), more than 300 titles including translations and different versions, 2) the manuscripts transmitting these works (c. 900 mss. so far recorded), 3) the early modern editions of Arnau's or Pseud-Arnau's works (more than 200 so far recorded, 4) the archive documents related to Arnau's biography, and 5) the secondary literature referring to Arnau de Vilanova and to his corpus (more than 1100 references). By now only databases 1 (works) and 5 (bibliography) are open to any visitor, while we are finishing the others. - news <http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/arnau/novetats> about the research on Arnau de Vilanova. We hope it will be useful to you, <http://www.uab.cat> Sebastià Giralt *Professor agregat* Departament de Ciències de l'Antiguitat i l'Edat Mitjana Filologia llatina Edifici B, Campus de la UAB 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) +34 93 581 26 04 Investigador principal del projecte Arnau DB. Corpus digital d'Arnau de Vilanova <http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/arnau/> Web acadèmic <http://pagines.uab.cat/sebastiagiralt> <http://apps.uab.cat/signatures/0000-0003-3977-6722> <http://uab.academia.edu/Sebasti%C3%A0Giralt> <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sebastia_Giralt> <http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/arnau/en>

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2 Vacancies in "Digital Humanities" at the University of Graz, Austria
by Georg Vogeler 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

Dear list, my chair for digital humanities at the Centre for Information Modelling - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz offers two vacancies, which are to be filled from 1 July 2016, and digital medivalists are certainly an option: University Assistant with doctorate (30 hours/week; limited to 5 years) Content focus: independent scientific research in the subject area of "Digital Humanities", especially in the area of Computational Linguistics or Information Science and their application to humanistic research data data. University Assistant without doctorate (20 hours/week; limited to 4 years) Content focus: Independent scientific research in the subject area of "Digital Humanities", especially in the areas of "Digital Scholarly Edition" or "Digital Diplomatics". The application deadline is May 13, 2016th Details on content, requirements and application procedure can be found in the documents or the website: http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeiten/detail/article/s… Best Regards, Georg Vogeler ZIM-ACDH Karl-Franzens-University Graz

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Editions as Interfaces - Deadline extended
by Neuber, Frederike (frederike.neuber＠uni-graz.at) 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Dear list, due to popular demand we have decided to extend the deadline for the symposium on "Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces" for *one week*. The new and final deadline for submitting abstracts for 20-minutes talks is Sunday, the 24th of April 2016. For more information see: https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/aktuelles/digital-scholarly…<http://> The Symposium will be organized by and at the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz in collaboration with Dixit. It will take place from Friday 23 to Saturday 24 September 2016. Keynote speakers are Dot Porter and Stan Ruecker. Best wishes, Frederike Neuber ---- Frederike Neuber King's College London - Department for Digital Humanities <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx> (Visiting Researcher) Drury Lane Campus, Office 210. Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Centre for Information Modelling Graz University <https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/en/> Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network <http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/> Insitut für Dokumentologie und Editorik <http://www.i-d-e.de/>

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research chair advertisement - UOttawa
by Kouky Fianu 10 Apr '16

10 Apr '16

For circulation to the list please : http://www.universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?job_id=35680 Thank you. Kouky Fianu Chair, Department of History University of Ottawa

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the integrity of parchment conservation science requires palaeographic vigilance
by Steven Avery 10 Apr '16

10 Apr '16

April 10, 2016 Hi Digital Medievalist list, Greetings! Today, I would like to share some questions about a famous manuscript, one where the superb digitization project of 2009 (the year it was placed online), the Codex Sinaiticus Project, helped reveal some amazing elements. In a sense this very set of questions is a thank you to the digital contribution to manuscript study. First, allow me to explain that the Codex Sinaiticus has a: highly problematical provenance with no substance before the 1840s allegations in the 1860s that Sinaiticus was a modern manuscript allegations in the 1860s that there had been colouring of the ms in the 1850s to make it look older creative and suspicious fabrications surround its discovery and procurement. And Sinaiticus has an unusual palaeographic dating history. The 4th-century date was pushed very aggressively, with minimal science, by its "discoverer" Constantine Tischendorf. This dating was quickly *set in stone* in textual circles by 1870-1880 despite various objections, minor and major. The palaeographic dating was based almost entirely on the pictures and descriptions in facsimile book editions, editions by Tischendorf that omitted salient facts about the manuscript's condition. Tischendorf also included lots of theorizing on soft evidences, the script (a standard easy-to-emulate script) and the textual components. Hardly anybody was actually viewing and handling the manuscript. This situation is still true today, except that the Codex Sinaiticus Project allowed for viewing the ms. online and included solid numerical representations about items like colour and thickness and numerous other features. The digitization revealed the fact that the two sections of the manuscript were different, in ways that are major anomalies. 1844 - 43 leaves - Leipzig - Codex Friderico-Augustanus - pristine white parchment - all leaves the same colour 1859 - 347 leaves - St. Petersburg-->England-1933 - "yellow with age" - unusual colour variance in the leaves A gentleman named David R. Smith has been studying Codex Fuldensis (it might be a couple of hundreds years later than commonly accepted) and made a salient comment: "I do not trust palaeography to prove an old date, but I do trust it to disprove such a date. It is easy to imitate what is antique, but impossible to predict what will be novel." Palaeography is a non-symmetrical discipline, in terms of time chronology. Some professional palaeographers, especially Brent Nongbri, have been making this point on the common early papyri dating, that the range of years is often far too restrictive (in that case the issue is usually a couple of hundred years of range.) And all the researchers involved in identifying forgeries and replicas are very aware of this basic fact. However, in Bible textual manuscript dating, it is often left out of view. Here is one basic concern, parchment manuscripts yellow with age and use: Gavin Moorhead: The colour of parchment varies with animal type, making process and condition or state of decline. *New parchment can be near white but as it ages or is exposed to detrimental factors it will start to yellow* and go brown-black if left to degrade completely. The colour change can also be influenced by the type of degradation and degree of gelatinization Now we get to a key point.* Leipzig is white parchment*, it "forgot" to yellow. Overturning the known chemical processes that we can see on manuscript after manuscript. This was hidden from view publicly until after 2009, it was never mentioned in the Sinaiticus literature. (Porfiry Uspensky references this about the 1845 full manuscript before it was separated to two major sections, and Ernst von Dobschütz mentioned the Leipzig section as snow-white parchment in one publication in 1910.) And this was never mentioned in the context of all the literature about palaeographic dating, from Tischendorf to Lake to Skeat & Milne to Parker and others today. *This white parchment anomaly alone should ring loud alarm bells, and should cause a full reappraisal of the dating of Sinaiticus*. Then you add the flexible and supple condition, and then you add the colouring discussed below. Note that there had been tests planned on these Leipzig pages for April 2015 by BAM, * Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfungin* in Berlin, a group which studied carefully the parchment and ink of the Dead Sea Scrolls. *The Leipzig University Library cancelled those plans*. Today, Leipzig does not want to discuss anything at all about the manuscript condition and history of conservation. (The British Library, to their credit, has engaged in open discussion, with various theories and conjectures about the unusual elements of the manuscript. Although for them the possibility of non-antiquity is an *elephant in the living room*.) So where does this leave us today? Here you can see the wonderful condition of Sinaiticus. Flexible, supple, not at all brittles. The Codex Sinaiticus: The Oldest Surviving Christian New Testament - The Beauty of Books - BBC Four https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Xkv2gjzZw Sinaiticus in some cases used as the exemplar for parchment and ink longevity. * If Sinaiticus is actually a modern production, the discipline and integrity of parchment conservation science is compromised. *Thus, even if textual critics, a somewhat cloistered group with their own peculiar areas of emphasis, are slow to consider the implications, the professionals in manuscript conservation and the related chemical sciences that are applied to manuscripts should have real concern. ========= Another major point. I have barely referenced the compelling evidence that *the British pages taken from Sinai in 1859 were coloured by hand, *perhaps using lemon-juice, matching the 1860s accusation. That was actually the first point that glared out at us as researchers. Why was there such a marked difference between Leipzig and the British Library pages? If you look at these two sites, you can learn a lot about the colouring. Codex Sinaiticus Authenticity Research http://www.sinaiticus.net/ Sinaiticus - authentic antiquity or modern? http://purebibleforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65 ========= One of the difficulties here is that the evidences are so simple, clear and compelling. We find the very simplicity is difficult for those in the scholarly and academic realms! All feedback from the manuscript experts, and all forum readers, welcome! Thanks! Steven Avery Dutchess County, NY SART - Sinaiticus Authenticity Research Team sinaiticus.net(a)gmail.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Michigan State University Global Digital Humanities Symposium - Livestream Information
by Kristen Mapes 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

*Global Digital Humanities Symposium* *April 8-9, 2016* Union Building, Room 55 Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan http://msuglobaldh.org/ Free and open to the public. Friday afternoon and all day Saturday will be livestreamed: *Livestream link for Friday, April 8 - https://youtu.be/OSW5d-qutgI <https://youtu.be/OSW5d-qutgI>* *Livestream link for Saturday, April 9 - https://youtu.be/LoKAZVkFETg <https://youtu.be/LoKAZVkFETg>* We are delighted to feature speakers from outside of the area as well as expertise and work from faculty at Michigan State University in this two day symposium. The Symposium will begin with a half day workshop on Minimal Computing and will include a range of talk types across the two days. *Breakfast, lunch, coffee, and snacks will be provided to all registrants on both Friday and Saturday. In addition, a reception with appetizers will be provided on Friday.* *Schedule* Friday, April 8 - 9:00-11:30 - Minimal Computing Workshop, Alex Gil - 11:45-1:00 - Lunch (provided) - 1:15-1:30 - Welcoming Remarks - 1:30-2:30 - (Global) Digital Humanities and Subalternity: Questions and Provocations - Radhika Gajjala - 2:45-3:45 - Panel - Mapping the Religious Soundscape of the Midwest, Amy DeRogatis and Bobby Smiley - Muslims in the Midwest, Mohammad Khalil - MSU Vietnam Group Archive, Charles Keith - 4:00-6:00 - LOCUS <http://digitalhumanities.msu.edu/locus/next/> (lightning talks session) - 6:30-7:30 - Reception Saturday, April 9 - 9:45-10:45 - Turbulent Flow: A Computational Model of World Literature, Hoyt Long - 11:15-12:15 - MSU Archive of Malian Photography, Candace Keller - 1:30-1:45 - Remarks, Dean Christopher P. Long, College of Arts and Letters - 1:45-3:00 - Roundtable - 3:30-4:30 - Minimal Computing and the Borders of the New Republic of Letters, Alex Gil - 5:00-6:00 - Lessons from Global, Pre-Modern, Jewish Digital Humanities, Dorothy Kim Find out more about the symposium at http://msuglobaldh.org/about/ Kristen Mapes Digital Humanities Specialist College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University 718-216-5695 kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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Medieval Manuscripts in Nova Scotia: blogpost
by Lisa Fagin Davis 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

This week, the "Manuscript Road Trip: Canadian Edition" visits Nova Scotia: https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/manuscript-road-trip-ca… - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 17 Dunster St., Suite 202 Cambridge, Mass. 02138 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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