Sponsored by Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
Organized by Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Jeanette Patterson (Binghamton University, SUNY)
The prevalent use of digital tools and online environments to edit medieval texts is resulting in a myriad of projects in which unique solutions are deployed to offer optimal representations of very different textual objects. Single manuscripts, library collections, authorial corpora, and works preserved in several witnesses, for instance, all beg for different editorial and archival approaches. The possibilities for study and representation, in addition, are multiplied not only by the technologies employed or designed ad hoc for each project, but also by the scholars’ ideas on the very nature of what is being studied. We invite paper submissions that reflect on the theory, developments, and challenges of editing and archiving medieval texts, including, but not limited to:
•theories of digital edition.
•the making of digital editions.
•technologies employed in the making of digital archives.
•examples of digital editions and archives.
Please send a 100-word abstract and a Participant Information Form (available here: https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u434/2017/medieval-pif-20… ) to Albert Lloret at lloret(a)umass.edu by September 15.
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53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 10–13, 2018. Participant Information Form. Deadline: September 15, 2017. This form is available on the Congress ...
10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
November 2-4, 2017
Intertwined Worlds
Registration now open!
In partnership with the Rare Book Department<https://libwww.freelibrary.org/rarebooks/index.cfm> of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS<http://schoenberginstitute.org/>) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.
Despite the linguistic and cultural complexity of many regions of the premodern world, religion supplies the basis of a strong material and textual cohesion that both crosses and intertwines boundaries between communities. This year's theme, "Intertwined Worlds," will highlight the confluence of expressions of belief, ritual, and social engagement emerging in technologies and traditions of the world's manuscript cultures, often beyond a single religious context. It will consider common themes and practices of textual, artistic, literary, and iconographic production in religious life across time and geography, from ancient precedents to modern reception and dissemination in the digital age.
For more information and to register, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium10.html .
Participants include:
* Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University
* Paul Dilley, University of Iowa
* Benjamin Fleming, University of Pennsylvania
* Ellen Gough, Emory University
* Thibaud d'Hubert, University of Chicago
* Ayesha Irani, University of Massachusetts, Boston
* Shazia Jagot, University of Southern Denmark
* Samantha Kelly, Rutgers University
* Jinah Kim, Harvard University
* Sabine Schmidtke, Institute for Advanced Studies
* Gila Prebor, Bar-Ilan University
* Michael Pregil, Boston University
* Michael Stanley-Baker, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
* Columba Stewart, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
* Tyler Williams, University of Chicago
* Saymon Zakaria, Bangla Academy, Dhaka
* Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Bar-Ilan University
Chères, Chers Collègues,
L'équipe du projet CBMA (Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi) est heureuse de vous
annoncer les dernières nouveautés de sa plateforme web.
• La documentation réunie dans la base de données, essentiellement
diplomatique (environ 27 000 unités textuelles), est maintenant lemmatisée et
disponible pour installation sous le logiciel TXM (Textométrie) (par Nicolas
Perreaux)http://www.cbma-project.eu/bdds2/la-base-sous-txm.html
• 75 nouveaux textes hagiographiques sont également accessibles et
téléchargeables, dont plusieurs dossiers clunisiens et cisterciens (par
Coraline Rey)
http://www.cbma-project.eu/%C3%A9ditions/textes-hagiographiques.html
• 5 nouveaux cartulaires cisterciens du XVe et du XVIIIe siècles sont
publiés en format Flipbook, en collaboration avec les Archives départementales
de la Côte d'Or : Cartulaires d'Aloxe, de Chaugey et Maison-Dieu, d'Ouges,
Privilèges de l'ordre en matière de succession (par Coraline Rey et Frédéric
Petot)http://www.cbma-project.eu/manuscrits/2014-07-11-08-41-35.html
Ces réalisations ont été possibles grâce au soutien du Lamop (UMR 8589), du
LabEx haStec (en partenariat avec l’IRHT, le CESOR, le Centre Jean Mabillon,
le CERCOR) et du SFB 1095-Université de Francfort.
En vous souhaitant une bonne navigation et de fructueuses recherches,
L'équipe des CBMA
http://www.cbma-project.eu/
Dear digital medievalists,
From 9 to 13 October 2017 the University of Cologne is hosting an
Epidoc Autumn school in combination with an expert workshop on digital
sigillography. During the first three days the autumn school will
introduce the participants to Epidoc, the encoding standard for
epigraphic texts and materials. Wednesday afternoon is dedicated to
presentations on advanced imaging technologies in the fields of
epigraphy, papyrology and sigillography. On Thursday and Friday there
will be an expert workshop focusing on digital formats and standards for
the description and publication of seals and similar materials.
Time: 9-13 October 2017
Place: Universität zu Köln, Thomas Institut, Universitätsstraße 22,
Ground floor
Language: English
Deadline for registration: 24 September 2017
Registration contact: martina.filosa(a)gmail.com
School participants: max. 25
Website: http://cceh.uni-koeln.de/2017/09/05/epidoc-and-sigillography/
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Programme (details to be confirmed)
Monday, 9.10.2017:
(Thomas Institut, Seminar room, Universitätsstraße 22)
Introduction to Epidoc: 14.00-15.30, 16.00-17.30
Tuesday, 10.10.2017:
(Thomas Institut, Seminar room, Universitätsstraße 22)
Exercises in Epidoc: 09.00-10.30, 11.00-12.30, 14.00-15.30, 16.00-17.30
Wednesday, 11.10.2017:
(Thomas Institut, Seminar room, Universitätsstraße 22)
Morning
Exercises in Epidoc: 09:00-10:30, 11:00-12:30
Afternoon
Presentations on advanced imaging technologies for digitizing seals
(RTI, 3D, etc.): 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30
Evening
Brauhaus (Restauration Pütz)
Thursday, 12.10.2017:
(Neues Seminargebäude / Seminar room S13 / 1. floor)
Seals expert workshop, part I: Encoding Seals, 09:00-12:30 / 14:00-17:30
Introduction & Overview
- Seal digitization projects: state of affairs
- Adjacent projects and encoding standards (TEI, NUML, CEI)
- Vocabularies and terminology
Towards an encoding standard in digital sigillography:
- Metadata
- Physical description
- Iconography
- Transcription
Public lecture:
Charlotte Roueche: Back to Socrates: Publication as Dialogue, 18:00-19:30
Friday, 13.10.2017:
(Neues Seminargebäude / Seminar room S13 / 1. floor)
Seals expert workshop, part II: Presenting Seals, 09:00-12:30
Topics to be discussed:
- Interfaces
- Presentation systems
- Portals
Conclusions, Plans & Perspectives
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Organizers:
- Gabriel Bodard
- Martina Filosa
- Franz Fischer
- Patrick Sahle
- Claudia Sode
- Simona Stoyanova
Institutions involved:
- Institut für Altertumskunde, Abteilung Byzantinistik und
Neugriechische Philologie
- Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste,
Arbeitsstelle für Papyrologie, Epigraphik und Numismatik am Institut für
Altertumskunde
- Historisches Institut, Abteilung Alte Geschichte
- Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH)
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Dr. Franz Fischer
Cologne Center for eHumanities
Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln
+49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056
franz.fischer(a)uni-koeln.de
@vranzvischer
cceh.uni-koeln.de, dixit.uni-koeln.de
i-d-e.de, ride.i-d-e.de
digitalmedievalist.org, digitalmedievalist.org/journal
guillelmus.uni-koeln.de, confessio.ie
CfP: Archival memory: institutions, texts, and shapes (Leeds 2018)
Publié le 31 août 2017 par Sébastien Barret
Nous publions ici l’appel à communications suivant, pour le Congrès
international de Leeds (IMC) de 2018, qui aura lieu du 2 au 5 juillet 2018:
Archival memory: institutions, texts, and shapes
via: https://drd.hypotheses.org/1628
Archival memory: institutions, texts, and shapes
Medieval charters and archives were a natural component of an
institution’s memory: acts and deeds constituted primarily a way to keep
and preserve the remembrance of a legal or para-legal action for the
future. But beyond this evident fact, such documents could also be used
to produce, or take part in, specific memorial discourses.
Three different levels of granularity are adequate to deal with the
issue of “archival memory”: the individual document, the compilation,
and the archives.
As for individual documents, foundation charters or deeds which were
used as foundation charters by subsequent generations give numerous, yet
diverse examples of the building of an archival memory. Single charters
could also use a part of their text to directly or indirectly hint at
their role as memorial objects, either in a more or less abstract way,
or by using historical and pseudo-historical references as an element of
their discourse. To name two examples, the preamble of the text was a
place where the topic of memory could be developed; and the narratio
exposing motives leading to a decision could place them in a historical
and memorial context. Graphical components (script, layout, decoration…)
may have been implemented as well in a memorial strategy. Silent
imitations of previously granted charters, be it in the formulaic
components, or in the style, shape, and ornament of the text may be seen
as a memorial endeavour: indeed, studies on the influences of chanceries
in the handwriting and formulary sometimes take for granted that papal
bullae or imperial diplomas were available to be imitated, but the
imitation might be an internal issue within the institution. Forgeries
may also encompass a graphic and a textual component from the forger’s
institution, and imitate the ornamental, scribal and textual components
of previous in-house productions. Discriminating the inward efficiency
(memoria) and the outward efficiency (claims and rights) in order to
better understand the aims of such documents is an open field.
At a second level, compilations comprise obviously cartularies and
“cartulary-chronicles”, but also other “archival books”. Books made out
of archival material not only had often an explicit memorial component,
but could also develop such a role in an implicit way, born of the
selection, arrangement and presentation of the copied material. While
much has been done on the most ancient cartularies, compilations from
the later Middle Ages are still a relatively new, albeit already
studied, field of research in that regard. As well as in individual
documents, such compilations could retain graphic elements from their
models (figured copies, reproduction of script, monograms and validation
marks…) or add new ones in order to shape and stage the community and
its memory (illuminations…).
Finally, the way documents were kept, their treatment at the hands of
medieval archivists, the way archival “collections” were ordered (or
not) gave another possibility for charters to participate in the
creation of the memoria of an institution.
We welcome proposals for 20 minutes papers exploring the way charters,
deeds, acts and related documents as well as their “by-products” were
used to produce, participate in or reinforce given memorial discourses
and/or structures, whether explicitly or implicitly. While memorial
aspects of the question should be at the core of the papers, speakers
may also reflect on the role such discourses had in the building of
identities. These questions may be approached either from the point of
view of the production of the documents or focussing on their reception,
including their ancient and modern historiographical use.
Please send your title, abstract (300 words max.) and affiliation to
Sébastien Barret (sebastien.barret(a)cnrs-orleans.fr) and Dominique
Stutzmann (dominique.stutzmann(a)irht.cnrs.fr) before the 20 September
2017. We hope to be able to fund each speaker with approx. 500 €.
Gentili colleghi / Dear collegues
Avrei un quesito che riguarda la codifica del Codice Pelavicino Edizione Digitale che sto curando http://pelavicino.labcd.unipi.it/ <http://pelavicino.labcd.unipi.it/> e che credo possa suscitare il vostro interesse. Per chi non lo sapesse il Codice Pelavicino è il liber iurium del vescovo di Luni, composto nel tardo XIII, contiene copia di documenti dal X (pochi) in poi fino ovviamente alla fine del XIII.
I would have a question about the coding of the Pelavicino Code Digital Edition that I am doing <http://pelavicino.labcd.unipi.it/ <http://pelavicino.labcd.unipi.it/>> that I believe may be of interest to you.
The Pelavicino Code is the liber iurium of the bishop of Luni, composed in the late XIII century, it contains copies of documents from the Xth onwards until at the end of the XIII.
Nel fare l’edizione on line abbiamo, ovviamente, codificato la data di ogni documento.
<docDate xml:id=”NumerazioneOriginale_docDate”>
<date when=”anno-mese-giorno”> … </date>
<placeName> … </placeName>
</docDate>
In doing the online edition we have encoded the date of each single document, in this way
<DocDate xml: id = "NumberOriginal_docDate">
<Date when = "year-month-day"> ... </ date>
<PlaceName> ... </ placeName>
</ DocDate>
Ci stiamo ora concetrando sui modi di creare l’indice cronologico dinamico e il sistema, per la data di redazione dei singoli documenti, non crea particolari problemi. Stiamo infatti pensando fare una lista eventi <listEvent> e di utilizzare il tag <event> con all’interno l’attributo <desc> in cui riporteremo una sorta di regesto ridotto. Il risultato dovrebbe essere una lista ordinata cronologicamente con accanto un breve riassunto del contenuto dell’atto.
Il problema su cui vi disturbo sono le date interne, ossia quando troviamo dentro il documento riferimenti ad atti passati con tanto di data espressa
Casi tipici:
autentica datata in maniera esplicita
autentica datata con elementi indiretti
riferimento ad atto notarile precedente
riferimento a missiva precedente
We are now focusing on how to create a dynamic chronological index. Tha main content does not create any particular problems for the date of each document
We are actually thinking to do an event list <listEvent> and use the <event> tag with the <desc> attribute where we will put a sort of summary (short regesto).
The outcome should be a chronologically list next to a brief summary of the act.
The problem we are concerned now is aboiut the internal dates, that is when we find in the document references to past acts
Typical cases:
Authentication, with the date explicited
Authentication, with the date reconstructed
Reference to a previous notarial act
Reference to previous missive (letter)
In questo caso pensiamo che la soluzione possa essere quella di un thesaurus / ontologia di atti. Quelli che per ora abbiamo evidenziato sono
- conferma
- giuramento
- convenzione
- autentica
Mi chiedevo se a vostro avviso creare un’ontologia in italiano/inglese che risulti più leggibile all’utente (tipo la lista qui sopra) oppure utilizzare l’ontologia delle tipologie documentarie che si usava un tempo nell’edizione di carte (breve, cartula offersionis, cartula donationis, ecc.) sapendo tuttavia che in molti casi l’estrapolazione di questo dato risulterà una forzatura rispetto a quello che è effettivamente scritto nel testo.
In this case we think that the solution can be creating a thesaurus / ontology of acts. What we have highlighted for now are
- confirmation
- oath
- convention
- authentication
We wonder if in your opinion we have to create an ontology in Italian / English more readable to the user (such as the list above) or use the ontology of the documents used in past times in latin (breve, cartula offersionis, cartula donationis, etc.), however, knowing that in many cases the extrapolation of this issue its done by forcing the content.
Ogni suggestione di lettura o suggerimento operativo sarà gradito.
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Enrica Salvatori
Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere
Via P. Paoli 15, Pisa
Professore Associato di Storia Medievale
Responsabile scientifico del Polo 4 del SID
Direttore del Laboratorio di Cultura Digitale
+39 050 2215464
+39 340 4013978
http://www.labcd.unipi.it <http://www.labcd.unipi.it/>
Bonjour à tous,
Tout d’abord nous tenons à nous excuser pour les envois multiples.
Les doctorants du CIHAM et HiSoMA organisent le 13 octobre 2017 une journée des humanités numériques à Lyon.
Cette journée a pour but de présenter les différents aspects des humanités numériques (normes, compétences, enjeux, projets, acteurs). Elle s’adresse à un public de doctorant.e.s, d’étudiant.e.s en master ou de L3, ainsi qu’à des chercheurs et des chercheuses en sciences humaines, lettres et langues novices dans le domaine.
Une session de workshops (sur inscription) aura lieu le matin pour inviter les participants à se former et à manipuler quelques outils des humanités numériques. La première partie de l’après-midi proposera deux conférences (M. Grandjean et E. Pierazzo) sur les humanités numériques, leurs standards et leurs enjeux. Enfin, la deuxième partie de l’après-midi présentera différents projets qui appliquent les outils et les méthodes qui auront été abordés le matin et en début d’après-midi.
Cette manifestation est gratuite et ne nécessite pas de compétences préalables dans le domaine.
Attention : Les ateliers du matin sont limités à des groupes de 10 personnes. Afin d’en faciliter l’organisation, veuillez vous inscrire en nous contactant par mail (sarah.orsini(a)univ-lyon2.fr <mailto:sarah.orsini@univ-lyon2.fr> et ariane.pinche(a)gmail.com <mailto:ariane.pinche@gmail.com>). Merci de joindre avec votre demande d’inscription quelques lignes sur votre cursus et pourquoi vous vous intéressez aux humanités numériques pour que nous puissions travailler en fonction de vos besoins.
Pour voir le programme, veuillez suivre le lien suivant : https://jihn.hypotheses.org/programme-de-la-journee-dintroduction-aux-human… <https://jihn.hypotheses.org/programme-de-la-journee-dintroduction-aux-human…>
N'hésitez pas à diffuser cette information dans vos réseaux.
En vous souhaitant une bonne rentrée,
Bien cordialement,
Sarah Orsini et Ariane Pinche
Ariane Pinche
Doctorante en langue et littérature médiévales
Allocataire ARC 5 - Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Université Lyon 3 - Jean Moulin • UMR 5648 CIHAM
ariane.pinche(a)univ-lyon3.fr
Walking the Worlds: A Biannual Journal of Polytheism and Spiritwork (ISSN
2474-3135) (www.walkingtheworlds.com) is seeking articles for its Winter
2017 issue. This is a journal dedicated to the intellectual exploration of
ancient and modern Polytheisms, polytheology, and contemporary Pagan
religions. The journal is published twice a year. Submission guidelines may
be found here: https://walkingtheworlds.com/submission-guidelines/.
The theme for the Winter 2017 issue is "Text and Tradition." Of particular
interest in the context of reconstructionist polytheisms like Heathenry,
Asatru, Kemeticism and Hellenismos, as well as polytheisms continuous from
antiquity, this issue will seek to explore the ways in which polytheisms
engage with literary sources, devotional texts, and the role that textual
exegesis plays in the development of ancient and modern cultus.
The deadline for this issue is December 1, 2017. Submissions should be sent
to Galina Krasskova at krasskova(a)gmail.com or Edward Butler at
epb223(a)gmail.com.
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2-5 July 2018
Call for Papers: Per corpora…Medieval Latin and Corpora
Session 1: What Corpus for Medieval Studies?
Session 2: Vocabulary of Memory
Organisation
Bruno Bon (Dictionary of Medieval Latin, Institut de Recherche et
d’Histoire des Textes, CNRS)
Krzysztof Nowak (Dictionary of Medieval Latin, Institute of Polish
Language, PAS)
Building on the experience of the session organized during the IMC 2016
we are seeking to propose two sessions for the upcoming IMC 2018 that
would focus on *building and using electronic corpora in Medieval Latin
studies*. Our idea is to stimulate discussion and to integrate the
community of both seasoned users and creators of digital tools, as well
as those who are taking their first steps in the corpus-based research.
We believe that the IMC offers a great opportunity for such discussion
since the event gathers scholars of a wide range of expertise who can
help us to understand better what tools do scholars need and what are
the research questions they expect corpora to answer.
The first sessionis intended to focus on more general questions of
corpus creation, while the second, following closely the IMC 2018 topic
("Memory"), aims at showing how corpora can be practically used in
Medieval Latin research.
Proposals should be addressed by 15 September2017 to
bruno.bon(a)irht.cnrs.fr <mailto:bruno.bon@irht.cnrs.fr>and
krzysztof.nowak(a)ijp.pan.pl <mailto:krzysztof.nowak@ijp.pan.pl>.
A detailed CfP can be found at: http://glossaria.eu/leeds/cfp_en.html
***
Après une première expérience en 2016, nous souhaitons proposer deux
sessions pour l’édition IMC 2018, sur *la construction et l’utilisation
des corpus textuels électroniques dans les études médiévales*, en
associant des utilisateurs et créateurs confirmés d’outils numériques à
ceux qui font leurs premiers pas dans la recherche sur les corpus. L’IMC
offre une belle occasion à ce genre de discussion, car l'événement
rassemble des spécialistes de nombreuses disciplines, aptes à signaler
les outils qui leur sont nécessaires, et à préciser les questions qu’ils
posent à leurs corpus.
La 1èresessiontraitera des questions générales sur la création de corpus
textuels, pendant que la seconde, suivant le thème annuel de l’IMC
("Memory"), étudiera des cas d’utilisation pratique des corpus textuels
dans la recherche en latin médiéval.
La proposition doit être envoyée au plus tard le 15 septembre
2017conjointement à bruno.bon(a)irht.cnrs.fr
<mailto:bruno.bon@irht.cnrs.fr>et krzysztof.nowak(a)ijp.pan.pl
<mailto:krzysztof.nowak@ijp.pan.pl>.
Details de l'appel à communications : http://glossaria.eu/leeds/cfp_fr.html
UPDATES AND UPGRADES AT BEYONDWORDS2016.ORG
(apologies for cross-posting)
Dear Friends,
We write today to announce major updates and upgrades to the Beyond
Words website, including:
- Dozens of digitized manuscripts newly-accessible in our IIIF-
compliant viewer;
- Links to audio and video files used in the exhibition;
- Full codicological descriptions as downloadable PDFs;
- Multiple indices supplementing those in the print catalogue.
These updates were accomplished thanks to the hard work of Hannah Weaver
(2017 Pforzheimer Fellow at Houghton Library) and our developer, Luke
Hollis of Archimedes Digital.
We invite you to visit the new and improved website at:
http://BeyondWords2016.org
We will continue to add to these resources as more manuscripts are
digitized and described, so check the website often for updates.
The Beyond Words Curatorial Team:
Jeffrey Hamburger
William P. Stoneman
Anne-Marie Eze
Lisa Fagin Davis
Nancy Netzer