IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1319: 'Ruling' the Script, III: Measure and Sense
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | APICES - Association paléographique internationale: Culture, Écriture, Société / Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (CNRS), Paris |
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Organiser: | Georg Vogeler, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
Moderator/Chair: | Peter A. Stokes, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London |
Paper 1319-a | Writing Angles: Palaeographic Considerations on the Inclination of the Script (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1319-b | Graphical System and Social Norms: Measuring a Collective Scribal Profile (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1319-c | Rules for a Database on Italian Notaries (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | Medieval writing, as part of the interpersonal communication process, had to follow rules that ensure the legibility and convey the meaning of a text. The digital humanities in palaeography give birth to a renewed quantitative approach, either as computer-aided palaeography or as digital palaeography with automated image-analysis softwares. This session explores what can be measured (angles, inclination, collective scribal profiles, and allographs) and how this new data can be analysed (databases, factorial analysis, cross-validation). The results give new insights on the dynamic of script evolution, and how it relates to the social contexts of written production. |