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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 606: Operating at the Intersection: Digital and Computational Approaches to the Large-Scale Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts, II

Tuesday 5 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Organisers:Mark J. Faulkner, School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics, University of Sheffield
Claire Poynton-Smith, School of English, Trinity College Dublin
Moderator/Chair:Tom Revell, Faculty of English Language & Literature University of Oxford
Paper 606-aThe Evolving Language of Lechery: Developing Lustful Language in Vernacular Saints' Lives
(Language: English)
Claire Poynton-Smith, School of English, Trinity College Dublin
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 606-bThe Power of Segmentation: A Spelling Database Created from the Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English
(Language: English)
Marie Vaňková, Independent Scholar, Praha
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 606-cAn Even Heardra Nut to Crack: Using the Dictionary of Old English Corpus to Get Big Data for Old English Spelling Variation
(Language: English)
Mark J. Faulkner, School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics, University of Sheffield
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, 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. 2 of 2 proposed sessions on this topic.