IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1327: Visualizing Medieval Culture, Digitally: Architecture, Archaeology, and GIS
Wednesday 11 July 2007, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Committee on Electronic Resources, Medieval Academy of America |
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| Organiser: | Dorothy Carr Porter, Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky |
| Moderator/Chair: | James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1327-a | Enabling Design Process Analysis Through Modeling English Medieval Architecture (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Technology |
| Paper 1327-b | Preliminary Results of the St Gall Monastery Plan Digital Project (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life, Technology |
| Paper 1327-c | Using Google Earth to Map the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Abstract | This session will explore approaches to 'mapping the Middle Ages' through the use of digital technologies. We will describe three projects, representing both large collaborations and individual efforts, which investigate methods for visualizing medieval culture with the assistance of computers. The projects are designed to answer the following questions, which we will also address in our presentations: To what degree did the physical structure of Romanesque buildings have a determining effect on the form of the later medieval addition? What does the 'ideal monastic community' look like? How can medievalists use Google Earth as a tool for visualizing relationships between locations and cultural artifacts? |