b'DigiPal'http://www.digipal.eu/blog/2021-12-16T00:50:00+00:00True‘Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography’2020-01-08T01:16:34+00:002021-12-16T00:50:00+00:00Stewart J. Brookeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/CFP-opening-the-sacred-text/<p class="Body"><a href="https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8c264b23-f6cc-4f18-98cf-9d75f7175b54/surfaces/0820ab5c-4a84-4bc2-b480-76c43f97bf5c/"><img alt="Kennicott Bible Banner" src="https://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/media/uploads/DigiPal/bodleian_kennicot_1-f123r.jpg"/></a></p>
<p class="Body"><b>Dates: </b><span>Pre-conference workshop: Monday 14th December – Tuesday 15th December 2020</span></p>
<p class="Body"> Conference: Wednesday 16th December – Thursday 17th December 2020</p>
<p class="Body"><b>Place:</b><span> The Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG </span></p>
<p class="Body">We are delighted to announce our call for papers for ‘Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography’, an interdisciplinary workshop and conference to be held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Bringing together scholars from around the world, we will study the decorative frontispieces and so-called carpet pages that are a remarkable feature of manuscripts from diverse cultures, including Islam, Judaism and Christianity.</p>
<p class="Body">The questions that we hope to see addressed in ‘Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography’ include:</p>
<ul>
<li>How were these opening pages of sacred texts intended to work? </li>
<li>Might they prepare the viewer, reader, or artist, for prayer or meditation?</li>
<li>What senses were activated by means of colour, ornament or other design elements?</li>
<li>Which genres of texts do they occur in, and why not others?</li>
<li>How do we approach manuscript examples that display other solutions to opening or articulating the sacred text?</li>
<li>Does materiality relate to patronage?</li>
<li>Were they based on actual materials: on textiles, floor mosaics, window screens, or book bindings, for example?</li>
<li>Are they meant to call to mind these particular materials and their functions? </li>
<li>Might we identify commonality in the decorative frontispieces in books from diverse traditions despite the different cultural settings and time periods?</li>
<li>What are the sources for decorated openings and carpet pages?</li>
<li>How might we problematise the paradigm of the ‘carpet page’ in scholarly literature and address the implications of the term itself?</li>
</ul>
<p class="Body"><b>How to propose a paper</b></p>
<p class="Body">Papers are 20 minutes in length. If you would like to propose a paper, then please email a brief abstract (250 words max.) to Stewart J. Brookes (<a href="mailto:stewart.brookes@bodleian.ox.ac.uk">stewart.brookes@bodleian.ox.ac.uk</a>) or Julie Harris (<a href="mailto:marfiles@comcast.net">marfiles@comcast.net</a>)<br/><span>The </span><b>deadline </b><span>for the receipt of abstracts is 11.59pm (EST) on </span><b>Friday 14th February 2020</b></p>
<p class="Default"><b>Edited Volume</b></p>
<p class="Body">Please note that it is our intention to include selected papers from the conference as part of an edited volume. If you are unable to attend the conference, but would like to be considered for the volume, please be in touch.</p>
<p class="Default"><b>Funding</b></p>
<p class="Body">We hope to attract funding to assist with travel and accommodation, in particular to support early career researchers and independent scholars.</p>
<p class="Body"><a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_nero_d_iv_f002v"><img src="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/media/uploads/DigiPal/lg_banner.jpg"/></a></p>
<p class="Body">(Images are from <a href="https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/Discover/Search/#/?p=c+0,t+,rsrs+0,rsps+10,fa+,so+ox%3Asort%5Easc,scids+,pid+8c264b23-f6cc-4f18-98cf-9d75f7175b54,vi+0820ab5c-4a84-4bc2-b480-76c43f97bf5c">Bodleian Library, Kennicott 1, f. 123r</a> and <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_nero_d_iv_f002v">British Library, Cotton Nero D.iv, f. 2v</a>) </p>
<p class="Body"><a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/media/uploads/DigiPal/opening_the_sacred_text_cfp.pdf">PDF version of this CFP</a></p>manuSciences 20172017-04-22T09:53:47+00:002017-04-22T10:17:24+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/manusciences-2017/<p>The deadline is fast approaching to register for manuSciences 2017. This is a Franco-German summer school organised jointly by the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), the Hamburg Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMS), and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University (PSL). It comprises a series of lectures and courses which 'will focus on a multi-facetted investigation of manuscripts adding new chemical and physical analyses, imaging methods and techniques from computer sciences to classical philology, paleography, codicology, linguistics and history.' Quoting/paraphrasing further from the EPHE version of the website:</p>
<p><strong>What</strong>: A week-long programme on physical sciences and digital methods in manuscript studies and philology. Active participation is expected. The lectures and courses will be in English.<br/><strong>Where</strong>: Villa Clythia, Frejus, France<br/><strong>When</strong>: 10–15 September 2017<br/><strong>Who (participants)</strong>: Up to 40 (max.) young researchers, from master and Ph.D. students to researchers and university lecturers.<br/><strong>Who (lecturers)</strong>: Roger Easton, Leif Glaser, Oliver Hahn (organiser), Keith Knox, Marcus Liwicki, Eve Menei, Ira Rabin (organiser), Hasia Rimon, Uzi Smilansky, Marc Smith, Peter Stokes, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (organiser), Dominique Stutzmann</p>
<p>For more details, including how to register, see <a href="http://humanum.ephe.fr/fr/manusciences17">http://humanum.ephe.fr/fr/manusciences17<br/></a>or <a href="https://www.bam.de/Content/EN/Events/2017/1115-manusciences-17-summer-school.html">https://www.bam.de/Content/EN/Events/2017/1115-manusciences-17-summer-school.html</a>.</p>
<p>[<em>This article has been cross-posted on the <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/manusciences-2017/">Models of Authority</a> and <a href="http://www.exondomesday.ac.uk/blog/manusciences-2017/">Conqueror's Commissioners</a> websites</em>.]</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.bam.de/_SharedDocs/EN/Downloads/Events/va-1115-poster.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3"><img src="https://www.bam.de/_SharedDocs/EN/Downloads/Events/va-1115-poster.pdf;jsessionid=9981FBFAC70D45AC468A693E3616B981?__blob=publicationFile&v=2"/> </a></p>John Coffin Memorial Lecture 20172017-04-19T14:42:14+00:002017-04-19T14:53:28+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/john-coffin-memorial-lecture-2017/<p>I'm very happy to see that this year's John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography will be given by Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, on 'Crossing Palaeographical Borders: Bi-Alphabetical Hebrew Scribes and Manuscripts in Egypt, Spain and Northern France (11th to 15th Centuries)'. A summary of the talk is reproduced here from <a href="http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8256">the IES website</a>:</p>
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<p>Medieval Jewish scribal culture reflects long-standing post-biblical traditions elaborated by Jewish communities in Palestine, Egypt and Mesopotamia. Moreover, despite major linguistic and scribal differences, Jewish medieval scribes in both East and West were well aware of the palaeographical specificities of the non-Jewish cultures among which they resided. This awareness is apparent in the manuscripts themselves: some contain texts written in different languages and alphabets, others are written in Hebrew script with features echoing the scripts of the majority cultures. Taking as examples manuscripts written in Egypt, Spain and Northern France between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries, I attempt to uncover some of the mechanisms, technical, aesthetic and social, underlying such scribal cross-cultural encounters. <br/><br/>Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is the Director of Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Section des Sciences Historiques et Philogogiques, Sorbonne University, Paris and is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. She is a highly distinguished scholar, funded by the Rothschild Foundation to research uncatalogued material, and her subject is fundamental to current work on medieval Europe. She heads a pan-European project entitled ‘Books within Books’ (<a href="http://hebrewmanuscript.com">http://hebrewmanuscript.com</a>), that seeks to locate, photograph and describe every Hebrew manuscript to be found in the bindings of books (these are mostly books written in Latin) now in libraries across Europe. She is a leading specialist in the study of Hebrew manuscripts, palaeography and diplomatic, the history of medieval linguistic thought and Christian Hebrew scholars in the Middle Ages.</p>
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<p><strong>What</strong>: 2017 John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography<br/><strong>Who</strong>: Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (EPHE)<br/><strong>Where</strong>: Chancellor's Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street London WC1E 7HU<br/><strong>When</strong>: 18h-20h, Wednesday 24 May 2017<br/><strong>For more details</strong> (including booking a free place at the talk): <a href="http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8256">http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8256</a></p>
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<p><img src="https://sas.sym-online.com/UserFiles/y2jIiDrUowzJHlr91AZATZfx5l2tc1IhBgD71mktkflxY6iy8nqRkAMBYLkT5p2x/2017%20Palaeography%20Lecture%20Poster.pdf"/></p>
<p>[<em>This blog entry is cross-posted on the <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/john-coffin-memorial-lecture-2017/">Models of Authority</a> and <a href="https://www.exondomesday.ac.uk/blog/john-coffin-memorial-lecture-2017/">Conqueror's Commissioners</a> websites.</em>]</p>DigiPal wins Inaugural MAA Digital Humanities Prize2017-01-15T14:41:48+00:002017-01-17T22:23:28+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/digipal-wins-maa-prize/<p>We are very happy and honoured to announce that the DigiPal project has won the inaugural <a href="https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/page/DHPrize">Digital Humanities Prize</a> of the Medieval Academy of America. <a href="http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-blog-inaugural-medieval-academy-digital-humanities-prize/">The full citation</a> notes that</p>
<blockquote>DigiPal’s innovative framework, collaborative origins, open access, quality design, and skillfully curated pilot collection make it an excellent model for the practice of digital humanities scholarship in the field of medieval studies.</blockquote>
<p>I personally want to thank all the people who have contributed to DigiPal as a project and to the <a href="https://github.com/kcl-ddh/digipal">free and open-source software</a> that we have continued to develop since the project finished in 2014; these thanks include the European Research Council who funded the whole project through an <a href="https://erc.europa.eu/funding-and-grants/funding-schemes/starting-grants">ERC Starting Grant</a>. The citation formally credits the 'core' DigiPal team of Peter Stokes, Stewart Brookes and Geoffroy Noël, and I certainly want to thank my colleagues Stewart and Geoffroy, but this is only a small seletion of the people who have contributed directly to the project over the last seven years. The DigiPal, <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk">Models of Authority</a> and <a href="http://www.exondomesday.ac.uk">Conqueror's Commissioners</a> (Exon Domeday) projects, as well as smaller projects such as ScandiPal, SephardiPal, ViGOTHIC, and Polices des Caractères et Inscriptions Monétaires, along with the various advisory boards, student interns, and others, brings the total number of contributors to well over 30 people. These people and the <a href="http://www.ahrc.ac.uk">Arts and Humanities Research Council</a>, who funded Models of Authority and the Conqueror's Commissioners, all deserve recognition.</p>
<p>Finally, to give some sense of the significance of this award, here is some text on the Academy and prize (thanks to the MAA's Executive Director, Lisa Fagin Davis, for providing this):</p>
<blockquote>The Medieval Academy of America is the largest organization in the world promoting excellence in the field of medieval studies. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Academy was founded in 1925 and comprises more than 3500 members worldwide. Among other activities, the Academy publishes the quarterly journal Speculum and awards more than a dozen prizes, grants, and fellowships. In 2016, the Council of the Medieval Academy voted to add an annual Digital Humanities Prize to its slate of publication honors. More than twenty digital projects were nominated for the inaugural prize, which is being awarded to DigiPal. The Prize will be presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy, to be held at the University of Toronto from April 6-8. More information about the Medieval Academy can be found at <a href="http://medievalacademy.org">http://medievalacademy.org</a>.</blockquote>
<p>Congratulations again to everyone in the rapidly growing DigiPal community, and I look forward to working with you all more in the years to come.</p>
<h3>Links and References</h3>
<ul>
<li>The DigiPal Project Team: <a href="http://www.digipal.eu/about/project-team/">http://www.digipal.eu/about/project-team/</a></li>
<li>The Models of Authority Project Team: <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/about/project-team/">http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/about/project-team/</a></li>
<li>The Conqueror's Commissioners Project Team: <a href="http://www.exondomesday.ac.uk/about/project-team/">http://www.exondomesday.ac.uk/about/project-team/</a></li>
<li>The free, open-source code for the DigiPal framework: <a href="https://github.com/kcl-ddh/digipal">https://github.com/kcl-ddh/digipal</a></li>
<li>Documentation for installing and using the DigiPal framework: <a href="https://github.com/kcl-ddh/digipal/wiki">https://github.com/kcl-ddh/digipal/wiki</a></li>
<li>The Medieval Academy of America (MAA): <a href="http://medievalacademy.org">http://medievalacademy.org</a></li>
<li>The MAA Digital Humanities Prize: <a href="https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/page/DHPrize">https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/page/DHPrize</a></li>
<li>Citiation of the inaugural MAA DH Prize (2017): <a href="http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-blog-inaugural-medieval-academy-digital-humanities-prize/">http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-blog-inaugural-medieval-academy-digital-humanities-prize/</a></li>
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<p>[<em>This article has been cross-posted with minor changes on the <a href="http://www.digipal.eu/blog/digipal-wins-inaugural-maa-digital-humanities-prize/">DigiPal</a>, <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/digipal-wins-inaugural-maa-digital-humanities-prize/">Models of Authority</a> and <a href="http://www.exondomesday.ac.uk/blog/digipal-wins-inaugural-maa-digital-humanities-prize/">Conqueror's Commissioners</a> websites.</em>]</p>Line-up for Leeds International Medieval Congress 2017...2016-12-16T11:56:04+00:002016-12-16T11:56:00+00:00Stewart J. Brookeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/imc-2017/<p>The Models of Authority team and DigiPal are delighted to announce that between us we are sponsoring five sessions at the <a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125137/international_medieval_congress">International Medieval Congress</a> at Leeds next year (Monday 3rd July to Thursday 6th July 2017). Subjects covered will include diplomatic, palaeography, Scottish charters, Digital Humanities, the implications of the use of digital surrogates and IIIF. Almost a mini conference in itself! But enough preamble, listed below are the sessions and their respective papers.</p>
<p>We very much look forward to seeing you at some or (for inveterate set collectors) even all of them.</p>
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<tr><th>Session <strong>813: Models of Authority in Scottish Charters, 1100-1250: Some Project Results</strong></th></tr>
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<td>Tuesday 4th July: 4.30pm-6pm</td>
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<td>• Alice Taylor (King's College London)<br/> "Institutional Interplay and Diplomatic Form in Royal and Non-Royal Acta, c. 1170-1250"</td>
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<td>• Teresa Webber (University of Cambridge)<br/> "Lay Grantors and Handwriting as an Image of Authority in Scottish Charters, c. 1200-1250"</td>
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<td>• John Reuben Davies (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Beneficiary Archives and Diplomatic Models in the Non-Royal Charters of Scotland, c. 1100-1250"</td>
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<tr><th>Session 1039: New Approaches to Researching Cartularies and Charters</th></tr>
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<td>Wednesday 5th July: 9am-10.30am</td>
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<td>• Joanna Tucker (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Rethinking Cartulary Manuscripts from 13th-Century Scotland"</td>
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<td>• Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Investigating Single Sheet Copies with Anachronistic Features of Handwriting and Diplomatic"</td>
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<td>• Matthew H. Hammond (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Tracing the Use of Status Titles in Scottish Charters"</td>
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<tr><th>Session 1539: Digital Methods, I: Computer-Assisted Approaches to Palaeography</th></tr>
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<td>Thursday 6th July: 9am-10.30am</td>
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<td>• Stewart J. Brookes (King's College London)<br/> "Models of Authority: All About that Database"</td>
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<td>• Michael MacPherson (University of Iceland, Reykjavík)<br/> "Towards Digital Palaeographical Handbooks for Vernacular Scripts: Some Desiderata from the Perspective of Old Icelandic Script"</td>
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<td>• Peter A. Stokes (King's College London)<br/> "The Problem of Multigraphism: A Digital Approach to Transversal Palaeography"</td>
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<tr><th>Session 1639: Digital Methods, II: Manuscript Images in Theory and in Practice</th></tr>
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<td>Thursday 6th July: 11.15am-12.45pm</td>
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<td>• Keri Thomas (Independent Scholar, Aberystwyth)<br/> "The Practical and Theoretical Consequences of the Use of Digital Surrogates"</td>
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<td>• Bill Endres (University of Oklahoma)<br/> "Color Literacy: What Every Medievalist Should Know Who Has Taken a Photo of a Manuscript with a Smartphone and Thought, It Might Be a Palimpsest"</td>
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<td>• Thomas Konidaris (Universität Hamburg)<br/> "Image Processing Methods for Determining Visual Manuscript and Character Features"</td>
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<tr><th>Session 1739: Digital Methods, III: Metadata, Shared Standards, and Tools for Manuscript Study</th></tr>
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<td>Thursday 6th July: <span>2.15pm-3.45pm</span></td>
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<td>• Samuel Rubenson (Lunds Universitet)<br/> "Formative Wisdom"</td>
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<td>• Matthew L. Holford (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)<br/> "Manuscript Cataloguing in a Digital Age"</td>
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<td>• Cai Henderson (University of Toronto)<br/> "<span>De-Localising the Archive: Uses and Applications of IIIF for Medieval Manuscript Repositories"</span></td>
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</table>Call for Papers for Leeds International Medieval Congress, 2017...2016-09-20T17:22:35+00:002016-09-22T17:27:11+00:00Stewart J. Brookeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/cfp-leeds-2017/<div><strong>Event: International Medieval Congress</strong></div>
<div><strong>Place: University of Leeds</strong><br/><strong>Date: 3rd-6th July 2017</strong><br/><strong>Needed: You ;-)</strong><br/><br/>Models of Authority and DigiPal are delighted to be organising two digital methods sessions at Leeds 2017 <br/><br/>Session 1: "Digital Methods 1: Computer-Assisted Approaches to Palaeography"<br/><br/>Session 2: "Digital Methods 2: Computer-Assisted Approaches to Manuscript Studies"<br/><br/>Interested? Then send us an abstract! It's all pretty simple really. All you need to do is read the blurbs below; decide which session suits you best; and then send an abstract of a couple of hundred words or so (we won't count them, but try not to overdo it) to <a href="mailto:stewart.brookes@kcl.ac.uk">stewart.brookes@kcl.ac.uk</a> by 28th September 2016.<br/><br/>Looking forward to reading your abstracts, <br/><br/>Stewart</div>
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<div>"Digital Methods 1: Computer-Assisted Approaches to Palaeography"</div>
<div><br/>Taking palaeography and codicology as its focus, this session will consider how computer-assisted techniques might advance our understanding of the handwriting of medieval scribes.<br/><br/>"Digital Methods 2: Computer-Assisted Approaches to Manuscript Studies"<br/><br/>The large number of initiatives to digitise medieval manuscripts mean that we now have unprecedented access to medieval texts. In many ways, this explosion of knowledge can be compared to the early years of the printing press. But how might we best utilise this growing body of material? This session will explore the potential for the computer-assisted study of medieval manuscripts; discuss the intersection of manuscript studies and Digital Humanities; and share methodologies. The topics under discussion will include the encoding and transcription of medieval texts, the practical and theoretical consequences of the use of digital surrogates and the visualisation of manuscript evidence and data.</div> Programme for DigiPal VI: The Palaeography Awakens...2016-09-01T02:03:40+00:002016-09-07T17:27:05+00:00Stewart J. Brookeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/programme-for-digipal-vi-the-palaeography-awakens/<p><strong>Date:</strong> Monday 5th September 2016</p>
<p><strong>Time:</strong> 9.30am-7pm</p>
<p><strong>Venue:</strong> Room K4U.12, King's College London, Strand WC2R 2LS</p>
<p><strong>Co-sponsors:</strong> <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/">Models of Authority</a> and <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/clams/index.aspx">Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies</a></p>
<p>After all the frenzied speculation on <a href="https://twitter.com/shadychars/status/770628980126851072">Twitter</a>, we decided it was time to put the <a href="https://twitter.com/ETreharne/status/770626078343704576">rumours</a> to rest and reveal the final line-up and programme for DigiPal VI next week (see below). Psyched? We are! And the good news is that it's still not too late to register if you'd like to be part of the most rock'n'roll, cutting-edgy, medieval manuscript-inflected Digital Humanities Symposium taking place at King's College London next Monday. Registering is easy: just <a href="https://digipal-vi.eventbrite.com/">sign-up with Eventbrite</a>. There's no charge for registering and a free lunch is included. What more could you want? </p>
<p>Well... this year, as a special treat to celebrate our sixth anniversary, we are delighted to offer some bookish prizes, generously donated by <a href="http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/books/">Keith Houston</a>. The rules are simple: <a href="https://digipal-vi.eventbrite.com/">register for the Symposium</a>; turn up; and you're in with a chance!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/books/"><img src="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/media/uploads/News/2016/thebook.jpg"/></a></p>
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<p>Very much looking forward to seeing you next week,</p>
<p>Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes</p>
<h2>Programme</h2>
<p><strong>9.30am</strong> Registration and coffee</p>
<p><strong>9.50am</strong> Welcome</p>
<p><strong>10am </strong>Session 1. Chair: Johanna Green (University of Glasgow)</p>
<p> 1. Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University)<br/> "Reading an Invisible Manuscript: Using MA-XRF to Trace Medieval Fragments<br/> Inside Book Bindings" </p>
<p> 2. Emma Cayley (University of Exeter)<br/> "Rethinking Medieval Materiality: The Curious Case of the Hotel Carpet"</p>
<p><strong>11am</strong> Coffee</p>
<p><strong>11.30am</strong> Session 2. Chair: Louise Sylvester (University of Westminster)</p>
<p> 3. Charles Farris (University of Westminster)<br/> "The Challenge of Royal Wardrobe Accounts"</p>
<p> 4. Anna Dlabačová (Université catholique de Louvain)<br/> and Giacomo Signore (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)<br/> "Mapping Miscellanies. Possible Approaches to Miscellaneous Manuscript Analysis"</p>
<p> 5. Peter Cornwell (University of Westminster)<br/> "Rhetorics and Pragmatics of Sustainability in Research Employing Digital Methods"</p>
<p><strong>1pm</strong> Lunch (vegetarian sandwiches for all attendees)</p>
<p><strong>2pm </strong>Session 3. Chair: Lois Lane (King's College London)</p>
<p> 6. Stewart Brookes (King's College London)<br/> "Models of Authority as an Agent of Holistic Detection"</p>
<p> 7. Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Assessing the Authenticity of Melrose Abbey's Earliest Charter"</p>
<p> Alice Taylor (King's College London)<br/> "Understanding Diplomatic Practice through the Models of Authority Database:<br/> the Melrose Abbey Charters as Case Study" </p>
<p> John Reuben Davies (University of Glasgow)<br/> "Looking for Models in Holyrood and Melrose"</p>
<p> Tessa Webber (University of Cambridge)<br/> "Dating Charters and Tracing Influence with Models of Authority"</p>
<p> 8. Débora Marques de Matos (King's College London/Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)<br/> "SephardiPal as a Tool for Digital Connoisseurship'</p>
<p><strong>3.30pm</strong> Coffee</p>
<p><strong>4pm</strong> Session 4: Chair: Dominique Stutzmann (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes;<br/> Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) </p>
<p> 9. Vincenzo Damiani (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)<br/> "Anagnosis – A Text-image Alignment Tool for Greek Papyri"</p>
<p> 10. Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert (British Library)<br/> "Digitisation, Engagement and Digital Scholarship: The Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project"</p>
<p> 11. Tom Haines (University College London)<br/> "My Text in Your Handwriting"</p>
<p><strong>5.30pm</strong> Break</p>
<p><strong>5.45pm</strong> Session 5. Chair: Tadashi Kotake</p>
<p> 12. Alison Hudson (British Library)<br/> "Archbishop Wulfstan’s School Days"</p>
<p> 13. Peter Stokes (King's College London)<br/> "MultiPal: Towards a Digital Palaeographical Approach to Multigraphism"</p>
<p><strong>6.45pm</strong> Closing words</p>Registration for DigiPal Symposium VI now open2016-08-15T14:00:48+00:002016-09-07T17:28:14+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/registration-for-digipal-symposium-vi-now-open-1/<p>Registration for the <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/programme-for-digipal-vi/">Sixth annual DigiPal Symposium</a> is now open on <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digipal-vi-the-palaeography-awakens-tickets-27077371146">Eventbrite</a>. There is no cost involved, but registration is compulsory to ensure that we have enough space and catering for everyone. Details are as follows:</p>
<p><strong>What</strong>: DigiPal Symposium VI<br/><strong>Where</strong>: King's College London (Strand Campus, Room K4U.12)<br/><strong>When</strong>: 9:30–7pm on 5 September 2016<br/><strong>Registration</strong>: Via <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digipal-vi-the-palaeography-awakens-tickets-27077371146">Eventbrite</a></p>
<p><strong>Confirmed Speakers</strong> include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Emma Cayley</li>
<li>Vincenzo Damiani </li>
<li>John Reuben Davies</li>
<li>Anna Dlabacova</li>
<li>Charles Farris</li>
<li>Alison Hudson</li>
<li>Débora Marques de Matos</li>
<li>Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert</li>
<li>Erik Kwakkel</li>
<li>Giacomo Signore</li>
<li>Peter Stokes</li>
<li>Joanna Tucker</li>
<li>Alice Taylor</li>
<li>Tessa Webber</li>
</ul>
<p>We very much hope to see you there!</p>DigiPal/Models of Authority at DH20162016-07-20T09:43:43+00:002016-07-20T10:00:27+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/digipalmodels-of-authority-at-dh2016/<p>As noted <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/blog/models-of-authority-at-dh2016/">over on the Models of Authority site</a>, the project team there was represented at Digital Humanities 2016 in Krakow. We presented a poster showing how the DigiPal framework has now been extended to include texts alongside images, and the texts themselves can be marked up according to project-specific schemas in order to allow searching by type of text as well as palaeographic feature. The full abstract is now published online, and the accompanying poster is embedded below. A high-resolution version in PDF is also available by clicking on the image (3.77 MB).</p>
<ul>
<li>P.A. Stokes, S. Brookes, G. Noël, J.R. Davies, T. Webber, D. Broun, A. Taylor, and J. Tucker, J. 'The Models of Authority Project: Extending the DigiPal Framework for Script and Decoration', in <em>Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts</em>, ed. by Maciej Eder and Jan Rybicki (Krakow, 2016), pp. 896-99. Available at <a href="http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/387">http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/387</a></li>
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<p><a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/media/uploads/Blog/2016/dh2016_poster.pdf"><img alt="Image of the Models of Authority poster from DH2016" src="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/media/uploads/Blog/2016/dh2016_poster.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black;" title="DH Poster (click to download high-resolution version)." width="500"/></a></p>
<p><em>Models of Authority Poster, DH2016. Click to download full version (3.77 MB)</em></p>Models of Authority at Leeds IMC 20162016-07-04T11:25:43+00:002016-07-04T13:49:23+00:00Stewart J. Brookeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/models-of-authority-at-leeds-imc-2016/<p>The Models of Authority project is delighted to be sponsoring <a href="https://imc.leeds.ac.uk/dbsql02/AQueryServlet?*id=8&*formId=1&*context=IMC&conference=2016&sponsor_UTF8=Arts%2B%2526%2BHumanities%2BResearch%2BCouncil%2BProject%2B%2527Models%2Bof%2BAuthority%253A%2BScottish%2BCharters%2B%2526%2Bthe%2BEmergence%2Bof%2BGovernment%252C%2B1100-1250%2527&*servletURI=https://imc.leeds.ac.uk/dbsql02/AQueryServlet">three sessions</a> at the Leeds International Medieval Congress this year, plus there's a paper by Joanna Tucker, the project PhD student (though this involves a dastardly session clash).</p>
<p>And if that's not excitement enough, anyone who attends one of our sessions is in with a very good chance of nabbing one of our highly-collectible, second edition bookmarks (as illustrated below in an early draft-form because my mobile phone has given up the ghost and so I can't snap the final version. Grrr.. technology!).</p>
<p><img src="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/media/uploads/News/2016/bookish.png"/></p>
<p><span>Your first chance to get a bookmark is:</span></p>
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<td>Session 432: Monday 4 July 2016: 7pm-8pm</td>
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<td>With Renaud Alexandre (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris), Ainoa Castro Correa (King's College London), and David F. Johnson (Florida State University). The moderator (c'est moi!), may throw in his two penn'orth also.</td>
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<td>Abstract: The large number of initiatives to digitise medieval manuscripts mean that we now have unprecedented access to medieval texts. In many ways, this explosion of knowledge can be compared to the early years of the printing press. But how might we best utilise this growing body of material? This round table will explore the potential for the computer-assisted study of medieval manuscripts, discuss the practical and theoretical consequences of the use of digital surrogates, and present new methodologies for the visualisation of manuscript evidence and data.</td>
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<p><span> Next up is: </span></p>
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<tr><th>Session: 531: Digital Methods, I: Three Case Studies for Digital Palaeography</th></tr>
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<td>Tuesday 5 July 2016: 09.00am-10.30am</td>
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<td>Stewart J. Brookes (King's College London): "Models of Authority: Charting New Territory for Medieval Scottish Charters"</td>
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<td>Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America): "DigiPal and the Austrian Romanesque: A Case Study in Aspirational Paleography"</td>
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<td>Ainoa Castro Correa (King'’s College London) : "VisigothicPal: la escritura visigótica al descubierto"</td>
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<td>Abstract: The growing field of Digital Palaeography uses a variety of computer-assisted technologies to address scholarly research questions. In this session, databases created (or aspirationally created) using the DigiPal framework will be used to investigate three different corpora: medieval Scottish charters, twelfth-century Upper Austrian monastic writing, and Visigothic script from the medieval Iberian Peninsula. Presenting desiderata for their respective fields, the papers explore the potential offered by Digital Palaeography, and DigiPal in particular, to interrogate medieval script in ways which would not be feasible using traditional palaeographic methods.</td>
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<p><span>Your third and final chance for a bookmark (or to collect an enviable set of three) is:</span></p>
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<td>Tuesday 5 July 2016: 11.15am-12.45pm</td>
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<td>Peter A. Stokes (King's College London): "What is Digital Palaeography, Really?"</td>
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<td>Dominique Stutzmann (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): "Paris Space between Words (13th-15th Centuries): Computer Vision and Medieval Linguistic Consciousness"</td>
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<td>Bill Endres (University of Oklahoma): "Transformed Materiality: Advanced Imaging Techniques and the Study of Medieval Manuscripts"</td>
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<td>Abstract: This session will explore the potential for the computer-assisted study of medieval manuscripts; discuss the intersection of manuscript studies and Digital Humanities; demonstrate the potential offered by advanced imaging techniques; and share methodologies and conceptual frameworks.</td>
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<p>And finally, or rather alternatively unless you are an inveterate session-hopper:</p>
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<td>Tuesday 5 July 2016: 11.15am-12.45pm</td>
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<td>Joanna Tucker (University of Glasgow): "Investigating Complex Cartularies: The Earliest Examples From Scotland:</td>
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</table>DigiPal and Proust2016-06-02T15:04:43+00:002016-06-02T15:12:17+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/digipal-and-proust/<p>As part of some experimental work with the <a href="http://www.item.ens.fr">Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes</a> (ITEM) in Paris, the DigiPal team will be represented at a workshop on Proust on Monday. This involves a 'proof-of-concept' study applying the DigiPal framework to Proust's draft manuscripts. It continues (in a somewhat different direction) a <a href="http://research.cch.kcl.ac.uk/proust_prototype/">prototype dynamic genetic edition</a> of Proust's writing that was develoepd by Elena Pierazzo, Julie André and Raffaele Viglianti. If the experiment works then you may well see more of DigiPal applied to modern authorial drafts.</p>
<p>The schedule for the workshop is below, taken from a post <a href="https://bnf.hypotheses.org/375">here</a>, and I hope to see some of you there.</p>
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<h2>Journée d’étude : Proust numérique, Proust imprimé : l’édition des manuscrits aujourd’hui</h2>
<p>Journée d’étude organisée par Julie André et Nathalie Mauriac Dyer dans le cadre des travaux de l’équipe Proust de l’ITEM-CNRS. Entrée libre</p>
<p><strong>Date</strong>: 6 juin 2016<br/><strong>Place</strong>: École normale supérieure 29, rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris amphi Jean Jaurès<br/><strong>Contact</strong> Julie André julie.andre@polytechnique.edu Nathalie Mauriac Dyer nathalie.mauriac@ens.fr</p>
<h3>Programme</h3>
<p>9h-9h30 : accueil des participants<br/>9h30-10h <em>Introduction</em>, par Julie André et Nathalie Mauriac Dyer</p>
<p><strong>Proust imprimé</strong></p>
<p>10h-11h Julie André, Emanuele Arioli, Matthieu Vernet : <em>Les références dans les cahiers : limites et enjeux de l’annotation</em><br/>11h-12h Simone Delesalle, Francine Goujon, Lydie Rauzier : <em>L’édition par cahiers : une hypothèse productive ?</em></p>
<p><strong><em>— Déjeuner —</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Proust numérique</strong></p>
<p>14h00 <em>Introduction</em>, par Paolo D’Iorio<br/>14h15-15h15 Thomas Lebarbé, Françoise Leriche, Caroline Szylowicz : <em>Le projet CORR-Proust : premières briques pour une édition numérique de l’épistolaire proustien</em><br/>15h15-16h15 Julie André, Geoffroy Noël, Nathalie Mauriac, Jeremy Pedrazzi, Elena Pierazzo, Peter Stokes : <em>Vers DigiProust</em></p>
<p>16h15-16h45 : <em>Pause</em></p>
<p>16h45-17h30 : <em>Proust entre numérique et imprimé</em>, table ronde avec les participants de la journée, Guillaume Fau, Daniel Ferrer (modérateur), et Dirk Van Hulle.</p>
</blockquote>Manuscripts from Wales, AD 800-12502016-05-21T09:33:52+00:002016-05-24T11:38:59+00:00Stewart J. Brookeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/manuscripts-from-wales-ad-800-1250/<h2 class="sys_events-record-title">Location: <a href="http://www.digipal.eu/blog/directions-to-nash-lecture-theatre-k231/">Council Room (K2.29)</a>, King's Building, Strand Campus</h2>
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<h2 class="sys_events-record-title">When: Tuesday 24th May 2016 (2pm-6pm)</h2>
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<div><a href="https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FF-00004-00042/14"><img src="https://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk/media/uploads/News/2016/cul_juvencas_6r.jpg"/></a></div>
<dl class="sys_record-details-control sys_events-details"><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl">Register here: <a href="http://welshmanuscripts.eventbrite.co.uk/">http://welshmanuscripts.eventbrite.co.uk</a></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt><dt class="sys_events-registrationurl"></dt></dl>
<p>The manuscript evidence from pre-Edwardian Wales, though ravaged by the effects of Norman and Edwardian conquests of the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, demonstrates that Wales in the central Middle Ages enjoyed complex cultural traditions. The only part of Britain where the tradition of Latin writing can be demonstrated to have survived into the sub-Roman period, Wales was also a point of contact with Ireland and the European continent, a nexus of influences and languages, and a source of texts and scribal expertise exploited in Anglo-Saxon England.</p>
<p>This workshop brings together palaeographers, historians and literary scholars who work on the material remnants of early Latin and vernacular culture in Wales to discuss the problems and opportunities which this material presents.</p>
<p>Speakers will include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Julia Crick (King's College London): Welcome and Opening Remarks. </li>
<li>Colleen Curran (King's College London): "The Curious Case of the Caroline in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 153"</li>
<li>Ben Guy (Cambridge): "Institutional Continuity and the Survival of Manuscripts from Early Medieval Wales" </li>
<li>David Dumville (Aberdeen): "Brittonic scripts in the earlier Middle Ages: questions not asked, asked, and inadequately answered"</li>
<li>Helen McKee (RHUL): "The Corpus Martianus Capella"</li>
<li>Paul Russell (Cambridge): "Copying and Modernising the Book of Llandaff"</li>
<li>Myriah Williams (Cambridge): "Abbreviations in the Black Books"</li>
</ul>
<p>See here for the <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/clams/Documents/Programme---Manuscript-Symposium.pdf">full programme</a>.</p>
<p>Organised by Julia Crick and Paul Russell.</p>
<p>(Image is a detail from the <a href="https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FF-00004-00042/14">Cambridge Juvencus</a> [CUL, MS Ff.4.42], f. 6r)</p>DigiPal at Kalamazoo 20162016-05-10T20:56:57+00:002016-05-10T20:58:15+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/digipal-at-kalamazoo-2016/<p>The <a href="http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk">Models of Authority</a> and <a href="http://www.exondomesday.ac.uk">Exon Domesday</a> projects, both of which are following on from DigiPal, will be represented at the 51st International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in 2016. We have two sessions, with details below, and we hope to see you there.</p>
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<p><strong>Sunday, May 15, 8:30–10:00am</strong><br/><strong>Session 494, Fetzer 1005</strong></p>
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<li>Models of Authority: Searching Questions for Medieval Scottish Charters, <em>Stewart J. Brookes, King's College London</em></li>
<li>What Order Are My Pages? Bringing Codicology to DigiPal, <em>Peter A. Stokes, King’s College London</em></li>
<li>Visualizing Manuscript Content through the Collation Project, <em>Dorothy Carr Porter, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies</em></li>
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<p><strong>Sunday, May 15, 10:30am–noon</strong><br/><strong>Session 522, Fetzer 1005</strong></p>
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<li>Visualizing the Roman de la Rose Digital Library: New Pathways to Manuscript Studies, <em>Kristen Mapes, Michigan State Univ.</em></li>
<li>Scaling Up: Macroanalysis and Manuscripts, <em>Benjamin L. Albritton, Stanford Univ. Libraries</em></li>
<li>Beyond 2D: Representing the Materiality of Medieval Manuscripts, <em>William F. Endres, Univ. of Oklahoma</em></li>
</ol></blockquote>MMSDA Lecture 2: Book Conservation and DH2016-04-29T16:11:31+00:002016-04-29T16:11:36+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/mmsda-lecture-2-book-conservation-and-dh/<p>In addition to the public lecture by Arianna Ciula (<a href="http://localhost:8080/blog/mmsda-public-lecture-modeling-textuality/">reported here previously</a>), a second public lecture will also be held as part of the Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age programme (MMSDA). This lecture will be given by Alberto Campagnolo, a book conservator and Digital Humanities specialist. The title and details are as follows:</p>
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<h2>Books as Objects of Use and Objects of Meaning. Book Conservation and Digital Humanities</h2>
<p><strong>Where</strong>: Little Hall, Sidgewick Site, Cambridge.<br/><strong>When</strong>: Monday 2 May, 5:30–6:30pm, followed by a drinks reception.</p>
<p>Books are objects in primis. They do contain important written information, but their physicality is also a silent witness that needs to be read, and preserved. Traditionally, for museum objects, the balance between their meaning and their usefulness tends heavily towards the former. When it comes to books, things get more complicated, as these artefacts are both regarded as meaningful per se, and useful (for one needs to access and preserve the text they contain). Often in the past, the usefulness of the artefact book outvalued its own meaning as artefact. Modern book conservation strives to keep the balance as even as possible, but this means that there is — and there should be — a limit to what book conservators can do, scalpel at hand, physically on books. These physical limits can be overcome with the collaboration between conservation and digital humanities, and this is where the magic happens: the artefact can be saved for its own meaning, and its usefulness can be enhanced through digital means.</p>
</blockquote>MMSDA Public Lecture: Modeling Textuality2016-04-27T08:37:09+00:002016-04-27T08:40:16+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/mmsda-public-lecture-modeling-textuality/<p>I'm happy to announce that Dr Arianna Ciula will be giving a public lecture on 'Material culture and societal resonance in Digital Humanities: Modelling Textuality' in London on Wednesday. This is part of the 'Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age' (MMSDA) course which is running again in London and Cambridge next week (as reported in <a href="http://localhost:8080/blog/medieval-and-modern-manuscript-studies-in-the-digital-age-mmsda-2016/">an earlier post</a>). The course is available to registered participants only (and is now very much full!), but two lectures next week will be public. Details of the talk are as follows:</p>
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<h2>Material culture and societal resonance in Digital Humanities: Modelling Textuality</h2>
<p><strong>When</strong>: 6 May 2016: 5.30pm - 7.30pm<br/> <strong>Where</strong>: Gordon Room/G34, Senate House<br/><strong>To Register</strong>: E-mail <a href="mailto:IESEvents@sas.ac.uk">IESEvents@sas.ac.uk</a></p>
<p>Modelling is claimed to be a core research methodology in Digital Humanities. Inspired by a material culture framework, this lecture will reflect on the concept of modelling and its practices in particular with respect to textuality. While extensible to other cultural artefacts, the main remit of this lecture will be the modelling process of texts-bearing historical documents. By claiming that modelling is a meaning-making process, the lecture will emphasise the potential of Digital Humanities research to be socially resonant, for instance, with respect to public history and big data. Drawing on examples from the research conducted by the author herself as well as DiXiT fellows, the lecture will exemplify three intertwined levels of modelling textuality in the digital environment:</p>
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<li>image and document-based modelling of the material sources;</li>
<li>modelling of the materiality of research publications and collections;</li>
<li>modelling of the socio-cultural agencies shaping the understanding and historical interpretations of the documents and texts.</li>
</ol></blockquote>John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography2016-04-21T17:08:58+00:002016-04-21T17:09:03+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/john-coffin-memorial-lecture-in-palaeography/<p>Registration for the John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography is now open. This is always a very worthwhile lecture, and this year promises to be no exception. Full details are available on the <a href="http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/public-events/2016/john-coffin-memorial-lecture-palaeography-2016">Institute of English Studies website</a>, including information on how to register, and a copy of the essential details is below. I wil certainly be attending, and I hope to see you there.</p>
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<p><strong>Date:</strong> 11/05/2016 - 17:30 - 19:00<br/><strong>Institute:</strong> Institute of English Studies<br/><strong>Type:</strong> Lecture<br/><strong>Venue:</strong> The Chancellor's Hall, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU</p>
<p>Daniel Wakelin (Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Palaeography, University of Oxford)</p>
<p>'Let me slip into something less comfortable': Gothic <em>Textualis </em>by Accident and by Design</p>
<p>This lecture concerns the supposed 'decadence' of late gothic <em>textualis</em>, especially the more formal grades, whether it entailed effort or conscious design, and instances when individuals misunderstood it or slipped.</p>
<p>Attendance free. Part of the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Series.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/events/Lectures/John%20Coffin%202016%20poster%20+%20bleed_Layout%201_EP%20reduced%20size%20V1.pdf">John Coffin Memorial Annual Lecture Flyer</a></p>
<p><em>For additional information please contact <a href="mailto:IESEvents@sas.ac.uk">IESEvents@sas.ac.uk</a>.</em></p>
</blockquote>"Codices, Choices, Cameras, and Cataloguing: Digitising Manuscripts", Thursday 11th February 20162016-02-09T01:13:03+00:002016-02-10T01:50:18+00:00Stewart J. Brookeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/codices/<p><b>Date: </b>Thursday 11th February, 6pm</p>
<p><strong>Sponsor:</strong> London Graduate Paleography Group</p>
<p><strong>Venue:</strong> Room S8.08, <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/directions/strand.aspx">Strand Campus</a>, WC2R 2LS[1]</p>
<p>"Codices, Choices, Cameras, and Cataloguing: Digitising Manuscripts"<br/><span>Dr Alison Hudson (Project Curator, </span><a href="http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2015/11/anglo-saxon-digitisation-project-now-underway.html">Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts</a><span>, British Library)</span></p>
<p><img height="318" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/News/2016/.thumbnails/sheep.jpg/sheep-500x318.jpg" width="500"/></p>
<p class="p1">(Tollemache Orosius, <a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_47967_f062v">Add MS 47967, f. 62v</a>)</p>
<p>For details of future papers, visit the <a href="http://londonpaleographygroup.weebly.com/graduate-seminar-series.html">London Graduate Paleography Group</a> website</p>
<p>[1] To find S8.08, walk past the main reception desk and take the lift up to the seventh floor and then use the stairs to get to the eighth floor.</p>Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA) 20162016-02-01T16:18:53+00:002016-02-01T16:19:22+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/medieval-and-modern-manuscript-studies-in-the-digital-age-mmsda-2016/<p>It's official: applications for MMSDA 2016 are now open. It's a short application period this year, so be sure to move quickly.</p>
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<p><strong>Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA)</strong><br/><strong>2 – 6 May 2016, Cambridge and London</strong></p>
<p>We are very pleased to announce the sixth year of this course, funded by the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT), and run by King’s College London with the University of Cambridge and the Warburg Institute. The course will run in two parallel strands: one on medieval and the other on modern manuscripts.</p>
<p>The course is open to any doctoral students working with manuscripts. It involves five days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval or modern manuscripts to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats.</p>
<p>The first half of the course involves morning classes and then afternoon visits to libraries in Cambridge and London. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning’s themes to concrete examples. In the second half we will address the cataloguing and description of manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These sessions will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers.</p>
<p>The course is free of charge but is open only to doctoral students (PhD or equivalent). It is aimed at those writing dissertations relating to medieval or modern manuscripts, especially those working on literature, art or history. Eight bursaries will be available for travel and accommodation. There are thirty vacancies across the medieval and modern strands, and preference will be given to those considered by the selection panel likely to benefit most from the course. Applications close at <strong>5pm GMT on 22 February 2016</strong> but early registration is strongly recommended.</p>
<p>For further details see <a href="http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/mmsda/">http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/mmsda/</a> or contact <a href="mailto:dixit-mmsda@uni-koeln.de">dixit-mmsda@uni-koeln.de</a>.</p>
</blockquote>"The Scribes of Exon Domesday Book", Monday 25th January 20162016-01-21T17:35:59+00:002016-02-10T01:45:48+00:00Stewart J. Brookeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/sbrookes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/scribes-of-exon/<p><img height="435" src="http://localhost:8080/media/uploads/News/2016/.thumbnails/exon1.jpg/exon1-753x435.jpg" width="753"/></p>
<p><b>Date: Monday 25th January, 5.30pm</b></p>
<p><strong>Sponsor:</strong> London Graduate Paleography Group</p>
<p><strong>Venue:</strong> <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/download/KBGroundforweb.pdf">Small Committee Room (K0.31)</a>, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS</p>
<p>"The Scribes of Exon Domesday Book", Dr Fran José Álvarez López (Research Associate on "<a href="http://www.exondomesday.ac.uk">Exon Domesday: The Conqueror's Commissioner’s Project</a>" based at King's)</p>
<p>For details of future papers, visit the <a href="http://londonpaleographygroup.weebly.com/graduate-seminar-series.html">London Graduate Paleography Group</a> website.</p>London Medieval Manuscripts Programme, Spring 20162016-01-13T10:56:22+00:002016-01-13T11:29:48+00:00Peter A. Stokeshttp://www.digipal.eu/blog/author/pstokes/http://www.digipal.eu/blog/london-medieval-manuscripts-programme-spring-2016/<p>The programme for the London Medieval Manuscripts Seminar for Spring 2016 is now out. Full details are available from <a href="http://events.sas.ac.uk/ies/seminars/163/Medieval+Manuscripts+Seminar">the IES website</a> (with additional details from <a href="https://www.academia.edu/20211510/Spring_2016_Programme_of_the_London_Medieval_Manuscripts_Seminar">a flier by Julia Crick</a>), but here is a summary:</p>
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<p><strong>Venue</strong>: Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies (<a href="http://senatehouselibrary.ac.uk">Senate House Library</a>)<br/><strong>Time</strong>: 5:30pm, followed by a wine reception.</p>
<p>2 February 2016. <strong>Richard Sharpe</strong> (Wadham College Oxford). <em>Edward O'Reilly's Irish Manuscripts: The Formation and Dispersal of a Collection, 1730–1860</em>.</p>
<p>1 March 2016. <strong>Orietta da Rold</strong> (St John’s College Cambridge). <em>Medieval paper and English cursive hands</em>.</p>
<p>8 March 2016. <strong>Kylie Murray</strong> (Balliol College Oxford). <em>A Fresh Look at Boethian Beginnings in Twelfth-Century Scotland: Prospects and Possibilities</em>.</p>
<p>19 May 2016. <strong>Marc Smith</strong> (École nationale des chartes, Paris). <em>Odd Inscriptions: Some Artisanal Interpretations of the Roman Alphabet</em>.</p>
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<p>In addition to this, the J<strong>ohn Coffin Lecture</strong> this year will be on 11 May 2016, by Daniel Wakelin, Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Palaeography, University of Oxford: <em>'Let me slip into something less comfortable': Gothic textualis by accident and design</em>. All are welcome to all of these events, and I hope to see some of you there.</p>