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The first seminar in this year's Humanities Computing series will take place at 1pm on Thursday 30th August 2007 in the Seminar room, 1st floor, Kay House, 7 Arundel St;

*** English Medieval Latin Charters: Attribution and Exploration through textual analyses ***

Dr Michael Gervers, University of Toronto

It is estimated that about a million charters survive as originals or copies from twelfth- and thirteenth-century England, the great majority of which were issued without dates.

The DEEDS Project, founded at the University of Toronto in 1975, has developed an XML encoded database of over 9,500 charters from c. 1100 to 1310, dated either internally, or by an editor, to within a year of the actual date of issue. These conveyances have been extracted from over 190 printed sources, which in total contain over 100,000 documents. Charter metadata includes chronological and topographical information, details of the religious house or lay household from which the document came, and the roles, titles and social status of grantors and recipients.

All are welcome!

Each year the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, presents a series of lectures and demonstrations by leading scholars, postgraduate students and practitioners from across the disciplines of the humanities and nearby social sciences. The series aims not only to present work at the leading edge of application but also to provide a forum in which this work is subject to critical reflection and thoughtful probing.

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