dm-l April 2020

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Medieval places online gazetteer?
by Paolo Monella 25 May '20

25 May '20

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear all, do you know of any online gazetteer to reference historical places (such as monasteries with their libraries) of the medieval age, like Pleiades for the classical world? Best, Paolo

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Re: [dm-l] Fragmentology webinar
by Jenna Mead 13 May '20

13 May '20

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Hello All, May I give a shoutout to Lisa Fagin Davis and recommend her webinar, ‘Fragments and Fragmentology in the 21st Century’? I was late to the party and so missed registration but caught it over on YouTube https://youtu.be/JQ-XGFZolF8. It’s a real winner: informative, engaging, generous with knowledge. The Q&A, curated by Ben Albritton, added another exciting dimension. Really, it’s scintillating and Elaine Treharne, Ben Albritton and the team at Stanford Text Technologies deserve a loud <Gaudete>. Thanks, Jenna Mead Jenna Mead BA (ANU) MA PhD (Melb) Grad.Dip.Mod.Lang. (UWA) Senior Honorary Research Fellow University of Western Australia [signature_2091766460] ‘Medievalism on Country,’ in The Global South and Literature, Ed. Russell West-Pavlov, CUP<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/global-south-and-literature/3DC70F4322…>, 2018

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Manuscript Studies Journal_ Announcements and CFP
by Ransom, Lynn 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. The editors of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries are pleased to make the following announcements: * The Spring 2020 issue is out! Abstracts are available here: https://mss.pennpress.org/about/current-issue-abstracts/. * We are seeking peer-reviewed article submissions for the Spring 2021 issue and beyond. Articles for possible publication in the Spring 2021 should be submitted no later than June 1, 2020. * Non-peer review Annotations can be submitted up to September 1, 2020 for the Fall 2020 issue. Annotations submitted after that date are eligible for publication in Spring 2021 and beyond. * Thanks to a generous agreement with the University of Pennsylvania Press, all Articles and Annotations in Manuscript Studies are made available for open access after one year from the date of publication. Articles and Annotations from Vol. 4:1 (Spring 2019) are now available for downloading on Penn's Scholarly Commons repository. To access the pdfs, go to: http://repository.upenn.edu/mss_sims/ **Please note: In response to the Covid-19 situation, Penn Press is providing FREE access to its journals until June 30, 2020. Here is the link to Manuscript Studies: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/698. Manuscript Studies brings together scholarship from around the world and across disciplines related to the study of pre-modern manuscript books and documents. This peer-reviewed journal is open to contributions that rely on both traditional methodologies of manuscript study and those that explore the potential of new ones. We publish articles that engage in a larger conversation on manuscript culture and its continued relevance in today's world and highlight the value of manuscript evidence in understanding our shared cultural and intellectual heritage. Studies that incorporate digital methodologies to further understanding of the physical and conceptual structures of the manuscript book are encouraged. A separate section, entitled Annotations, features research in progress and digital project reports. For more information about submitting and to subscribe, go to http://mss.pennpress.org. For direct inquiries, please contact the editors at sims-mss(a)pobox.upenn.edu<mailto:sims-mss@pobox.upenn.edu> . **feel free to forward this message to any interested parties**

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Fragmentology webinar
by Lisa Fagin Davis 24 Apr '20

24 Apr '20

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Greetings, all, Here's the recording of my fragmentology webinar, in case you're interested: https://youtu.be/JQ-XGFZolF8 - Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 6 Beacon St., Suite 500 Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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Call for Contributions: Early Career Researchers Online Symposium (Basel/Online, July 9-10)
by Sven Martin Kraus 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Dear all, we are pleased to announce that we will be hosting an online symposium for early career researchers of the digital humanities on the 9-10th of July 2020. As many other workshops and conferences are being postponed or cancelled this summer, we hope to provide a forum for fruitful discussion and exchange. We welcome short abstracts for project presentations as well as suggestions for round table discussions. Submission deadline is the 8th of June. For more details, please see the attached call for contributions. Best regards, Sven Kraus (Basel)

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Upcoming webinar on medieval fragments
by Lisa Fagin Davis 18 Apr '20

18 Apr '20

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. Hi, everyone, I hope you're all well and that you're staying safe. You may be interested in the webinar I'm leading next week, hosted by Stanford's Text Technologies project, on the subject of medieval fragments and modern methodologies of digital fragmentology. Thursday, April 23, 10 AM PDT. More info here: https://events.stanford.edu/events/876/87658/ Please circulate at will! Lisa -- Lisa Fagin Davis Executive Director Medieval Academy of America 6 Beacon St., Suite 500 Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Phone: 617 491-1622 Fax: 617 492-3303 Email: LFD(a)TheMedievalAcademy.org

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A new secretary hand font
by Baker, Peter S (psb6m) 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

With the usual apologies for cross-posting: Many of you know that in addition to my day job, I have a weird hobby of making fonts for medievalists. This one is a little bit later than the Middle Ages, but may still be of interest. I have just released a font called "Joscelyn," which I call "an uncompromising secretary hand font" because, unlike any other secretary hand font I have seen, it makes no concessions to modernity. It is based on the main hand of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 488, John Joscelyn's Historiola Collegii Corporis Christi. The hand (not Joscelyn's own) is rather formal, and so less difficult than many secretary hands, but it is as near as I've been able to come so far to an authentic reproduction of the hand. When I teach paleography, the most difficult bit for my students is always the last--secretary hand. The idea behind this font is that a decent way to learn this difficult hand might be to (1) install the font, (2) start a Microsoft Word file by double-clicking an included template, (3) apply the "Joscelyn" character style, (4) type whatever you like, and (5) just observe. The authenticity of the font depends on seveal OpenType features being enabled, but the template turns them on for you. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have to say that it's fun to type in this font and see the OpenType features applied in real time--s changed into long s, initial and final forms applied, and much more. And in addition, you can pass as much time as you like playing with the font without running the smallest risk of contracting COVID-19! The font is free (licensed under the Open Font License). You can get it here: https://github.com/psb1558/Joscelyn-font/releases Stay well, everyone. Peter Baker Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions Department of English University of Virginia P.O. Box 400121 Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4121

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Medieval font dump
by Baker, Peter S (psb6m) 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Caution: This email was sent from someone outside of the University of Lethbridge. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you know they are safe. Please forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)uleth.ca. I've decided to do this all at once rather than annoying people by posting about them one by one. The story overall is that I have a number of font projects, some going back nearly thirty years, and I have decided to make public repositories for any that are in a usable state. Why? Because I am a senior citizen, and life seems uncertain right now. I want them out in public, with source code, so that people can download and enjoy them, fork them if they want, and develop them farther. A couple of these have been out in the wild for some time, but the repository is where you will find the latest version. I haven't made releases for these, but each repository has a "font" folder. To get the font, click on that folder, then click on the name of the file, then find and click the "Download" button. Here are the fonts: BeowulfOT This is an update of my Beowulf1 font, which has been out and about just about forever, and which you see in lots of places from websites to book covers to TV titles. This version, never before released, has a modern mode (legible to modern readers) and a historical mode (for teachers and purists). Unlike the original version, it has ligatures and a number of other OpenType features. https://github.com/psb1558/BeowulfOT-font Eadui A reproduction of the English Caroline minuscule hand of the great eleventh-century Canterbury scribe Eadui Basan. It has modern and historical modes and numerous contextual alternates and other cool features. It has been available on various websites for years, though it is not as well known as Beowulf1. https://github.com/psb1558/Eadui-Font Cissanthemos Based on the ninth-century Royal Bible, BL MS Royal 1 E. VI, a splendid example of insular hybrid minuscule. It contains caps in three different styles, one of which has long been available as the font "Anglo-Saxon Caps" (from 1993!), which you see everywhere. Cissanthemos has modern and historical modes and a very large number of contextual alternates, giving it an irregular, hand-made look. https://github.com/psb1558/Cissanthemos-font ParkerChronicle Based on the first hand of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 173, "The Parker Chronicle." The font is named after the book because I haven't yet thought up a better name for it. With modern and historical modes and plenty of OpenType goodies. This has been seen in public precisely once, when I gave a copy to the proprietor of Blue Mountain Brewery to use on the label of "Adambeor," an Old English-themed craft beer that you can sample if you ever find yourself, post-pandemic, driving through Afton, Virginia. (He paid me for my help and the font with two cases of his really excellent beer.) https://github.com/psb1558/ParkerChronicle-font Joscelyn The secretary hand font, mentioned here a few days ago. https://github.com/psb1558/Joscelyn-font Elstob A modern variable font mainly for web use. If you don't know what a variable font is, visit https://psb1558.github.io/Elstob-font/ and play around. There are lots of OpenType features, outlined in an accompanying document, and these are also available in a desktop version, ElstobD. This has been submitted to Google Fonts, but they're so backed up, I don't know when they'll get to it, if ever. Repository: https://github.com/psb1558/Elstob-font Releases: https://github.com/psb1558/Elstob-font/releases Finally there's Junicode-new (https://github.com/psb1558/Junicode-New), a long-term project to expand, modernize and improve my rather long-in-the-tooth Junicode font, but there are no usable fonts in that repository yet. May we all dodge the virus and come through the next few harrowing months sane and in good health! Peter Peter S. Baker Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions Department of English University of Virginia P.O. Box 400121 Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4121

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