IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1517: Loss and Transmission: Quantitative Approaches to Modelling the Dissemination and Survival of Medieval Literature
Thursday 8 July 2021, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Jean-Baptiste Camps, Université Paris IV - Sorbonne Mike Kestemont, Centrum Nederlandse Literatuurgeschiedenis, Universiteit Antwerpen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Kirsten Wallenwein, Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
| Paper 1517-a | On the Extinction of Medieval Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1517-b | A Dynamic Model of Manuscript Transmission (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1517-c | Unseen Species Models from Ecology to Estimate the Losses of Medieval Literature: Advances in an International Comparison (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Understanding the dynamics of manuscript transmission and estimating the losses of medieval texts and manuscripts are fundamental issues, albeit hard to tackle. The available material evidence is scant, making it hard to identify robust patterns, especially using conventional philological instruments. Mathematical models and computer simulations can contribute novel perspectives and complement existing knowledge. Indeed, combining machine learning and mathematical modelling inspired by the natural sciences offers new tools for the Digital Humanities and new insights into the complex transmission of the medieval textual heritage. This session's papers present a set of bold quantitative approaches of this important phenomenon. |