IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 104: A Chronicle in Code: The Digital Edition of the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa
Monday 1 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Tara L. Andrews, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Universität Bern |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Theo M. van Lint, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford |
| Paper 104-a | Computational Graph Models for Critical Text: A Case Study (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Computing in Medieval Studies, Crusades, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 104-b | Shifting Timelines: The Chronological Puzzles of the Chronicle (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Other |
| Paper 104-c | The Chronicle and Its Scholars, 17th-18th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Other, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | In this session we will launch publicly the SNSF-sponsored digital critical edition of the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, an Armenian historical text of the 12th century. The session consists of three papers. The first covers the edition itself and its digital model, demonstrating the extent and limits of philology formalised in computer code. The second paper discusses our work in untangling the often confused chronology within the text, and how it is supported by our edition model. The final paper will look at the transmission of the Chronicle, and the circumstances around its wide proliferation in the 17th century in particular. |