IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 506: Operating at the Intersection: Digital and Computational Approaches to the Large-Scale Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts, I

Tuesday 5 July 2022, 09.00-10.30

Organisers:	Mark J. Faulkner, School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics, University of Sheffield Claire Poynton-Smith, School of English, Trinity College Dublin
Moderator/Chair:	Claire Poynton-Smith, School of English, Trinity College Dublin
Paper 506-a	MECZ: A Database of Medieval Czech Sources in Translation (Language: English) Jan Čermák, Department of English, Univerzita Karlova, Praha Ondřej Tichý, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Praha Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Slavic, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 506-b	From a Manual for Slow Reading to the Reference Text: A Diachronic Analysis of the Circulation of Breviloquium de virtutibus (Language: English) Svetlana Yatsyk, Centre for Medieval Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 506-c	From Localisation to Chronological and Geographical Prediction (Language: English) David Joseph Wrisley, Department of English, American University of Beirut Estelle Guéville, Louvre Abu Dhabi Index terms: Archives and Sources, Biblical Studies, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	Recent technological leaps enable analytical approaches that were inconceivable mere decades ago; straddling disciplinary boundaries between corpus linguistics, computational analysis, and traditional literary study therefore provides us with new windows into, and perspectives on, medieval texts. Digital tools can seem daunting to medievalists with literature backgrounds, but operating in the borders between these disciplines provides us with possibilities that are massive - as are the data sets we can work with, compared to the standard scope of a medieval textual study. As more machine readable versions of texts are produced, these opportunities only grow. An interdisciplinary approach to textual analysis provides innovative perspectives, whether we are detecting chronological or geographical patterns, or interrogating individual textual examples and problematising their traditional categorisation. 1 of 2 proposed sessions on this topic.