Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1537
Title	Digital Palaeography: Three Case Studies
Date/Time	Thursday 10 July 2014: 09.00-10.30
Sponsor	Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
Organiser	Stewart J. Brookes, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair	Christine Voth, Seminar für Englische Philologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Paper 1537-a	Using DigiPal to Study Fragments of Manuscripts from Norway and Sweden from before c. 1100: New Perspectives and Connections (Language: English) Matilda Anne Watson, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Language and Literature - Scandinavian; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1537-b	'SephardiPal': Between the Letters and Shapes of Sephardic Manuscripts (Language: English) Debora Matos, Institut für Jüdische Studien, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Index Terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Language and Literature - Semitic; Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1537-c	So 11th Century: Investigating Old English Vernacular Manuscripts with DigiPal (Language: English) Stewart J. Brookes, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Language and Literature - Old English; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	The growing field of Digital Palaeography uses a variety of computer-assisted technologies to address scholarly research questions. In this session, databases created using the DigiPal framework will be used to investigate three different corpora: Scandinavian, Hebrew, and Old English. Presenting desiderata for their respective fields, the papers explore the potential offered by Digital Palaeography, and DigiPal in particular, to interrogate medieval script in ways which would not be feasible using traditional palaeographic methods.