IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 247: Data-fy That: Four Ways (and Reasons) to Turn Medieval Sources into Data
Monday 3 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Traveler's Lab, Wesleyan University, Connecticut |
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| Organiser: | Jesse W. Torgerson, College of Letters, Wesleyan University, Connecticut |
| Moderator/Chair: | David Gary Shaw, Department of History, Wesleyan University |
| Paper 247-a | Planting Whole Rows: Solutions for Incomplete Agricultural Data (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History |
| Paper 247-b | Understanding Medieval English Courts as Arenas of Social Interaction: From People and Practices to Data and Networks (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Computing in Medieval Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 247-c | Landscapes of Empire: Visualising Geographic Data from the Chronicle of Theophanes (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Computing in Medieval Studies, Mentalities |
| Paper 247-d | A Computational Network Analysis of the Song of Roland (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Abstract | Four case studies from across the Middle Ages demonstrate the value of adopting a digital praxis to the study of historical source materials. Turning sources into data permits scholars to rediscover agricultural landscapes, to uncover the logics of medieval pilgrimage routes, to deepen our understanding of the social dynamics of courts, and to rethink the boundaries of empires. Organized by the Traveler's Lab research network, this panel shows medievalists taking a nuanced approach to the datafication of sources can not only make meaningful new discoveries, but can change the methods and nature of our work and the possibilities for collaboration across and between institutions. |