IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1301: Digital Anglo-Saxons: Charters, People, and Script
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Centre for Computing in Humanities, King's College London |
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| Organiser: | Peter A. Stokes, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Georg Vogeler, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
| Paper 1301-a | Anglo-Saxon People: PASE II - Doing Prosopography in the Digital Age (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Demography, Genealogy and Prosopography, Social History |
| Paper 1301-b | Anglo-Saxon Script: Computing for Palaeography, Manuscripts, and Diplomatic (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | The recent completion of three electronic resources for the study of Anglo-Saxon England, and the beginning of a fourth, raises issues about the representation of historical data in digital form. These issues will become an ever larger fact of academic life as more and more material is represented digitally, and so their potential and limitations must be addressed now. Issues addressed here will include how to represent the 'fluidity' and uncertainty of historical data; how projects can address 'traditional' questions in medieval studies and also raise new questions; and how existing resources can be rejuvenated by integrating them into a larger whole. These broad theoretical questions will be addressed through case-studies of projects on Anglo-Saxon charters, prosopography, palaeography, and integrating the three. |