Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	630
Title	Digital Pleasures, II: Tools for Dating and Describing Script
Date/Time	Tuesday 2 July 2013: 11.15-12.45
Sponsor	Groupement de Recherche 'Diplomatique' (GDR 3177-CNRS)
Organiser	Jinna Smit, Capaciteitsgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Moderator/Chair	Jan W. J. Burgers, Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (ING - KNAW), Amsterdam
Paper 630-a	Constructing a Medieval Palaeographic Scale (Language: English) Petros Samara, Faculty of Humanities, Universiteit van Amsterdam / Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen (ING - KNAW), Den Haag Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Computing in Medieval Studies; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 630-b	Word Image Retrieval from Historical Handwritten Document Collections: The Monk System (Language: English) Jean-Paul van Oosten, Faculteit Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Computing in Medieval Studies; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 630-c	Answers and Questions: Digital Approaches to Dating Medieval Script (Language: English) Stewart J. Brookes, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Peter A. Stokes, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	The time-honoured scholarly discipline of paleography has recently been rejuvenated by the digital technology. This offers innovative ways of interrogating and interacting with medieval script, opening up new possibilities for the study of scripts, scribes, and manuscripts, and even tackling the difficult aspect of dating and locating a script of unknown provenance. In this line of research, computer expertise and traditional paleography work in close collaboration.