IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 806: World Wide Access to the Sources: Texts and Tools, I
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Project 'Narrative Sources in the Medieval Low Countries', Department of History, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
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Organiser: | Renée Nip, Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
Moderator/Chair: | Renée Nip, Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
Paper 806-a | A Digital Charterbook of Groningen and Drenthe (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies |
Paper 806-b | A Biographical Database of Commentators on Aristotle and the Sentences (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Philosophy |
Paper 806-c | Reti Medievali (Italy): Medieval Studies Have Fallen in the Net (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
Abstract | This session is about the possibilities to increase and improve the accessibility and availability of medieval written sources by means of application of computer technology. The speakers will present their projects, their goals and the problems they have to solve. Redmer Alma: the Digital Charterbook of Groningen and Drenthe will contain transcriptions, translations and fascimiles of ca. 20.000 charters, the main source for the history of these regions in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time. The database will be of great interest for several research fields. Steven Livesey is composing a database of two fundamental groups of medieval texts: commentaries on Aristotle's works, and on Peter Lombard's Sentences. He will discuss the possibilities of such a specialized database in teaching and research. Laura Gaffuri: The Reti Medievali project, a cooperative initiative of five Italian universities (www.retimedievali.it), aims to create an on-line community of medieval scholars of unrestricted specializations and to encourage them to experiment with the potential of new communication technologies by offering in an electronic way texts, tools and historiographical analyses. |