November 22, 2013 (1:00 pm-5:00 pm)
Leiden University
Lipsius Building, Room 228
The field of Digital Humanities now plays an important role in an increasing number of disciplines, including those that have not traditionally depended on the use of computers. A greater number of projects (funded by national and European agencies) related to the study of medieval script now rely on digital tools to develop new understandings of medieval palaeography.
This mini-symposium examines the use of digital tools in palaeographical research. The four presentations question how medieval handwriting may be analyzed in a quantitative manner, how software and databases aid in dating medieval script, and how these tools can even help in the identification of individual scribes.
The four papers show how a “scientific” approach to script opens new avenues of exploration, adding to our current paleographical knowledge and practices. They prompt the following questions: How do we obtain verifiable evidence from letter forms? What are the successes and failures of analyzing medieval handwriting with a computer? What are some of the problems encountered? And where do we go from here?
Programme :
1:00-1:15 pm : Welcome
1:15-2:00 pm : Prof. dr. Lambert Schomaker (Groningen) – Recent Developments in Handwritten Manuscript Analysis and Digital Palaeography
2:00-2:45 pm : Drs. Petros Samara (Amsterdam) – Towards a Medieval Palaeographical Scale
2:45-3:15 pm : Coffee and Tea
3:15-4:00 pm : Ramona Venema, BA (Groningen/Leiden) – The Science of Change: Tracing Gothic Features in 11th-Century Manuscripts
Lieftinck Lecture in Medieval Manuscripts
4:00-5:00 pm : Dr. Peter Stokes (London – Principal Investigator of DigiPal) – Computers and Palaeography: the Art and the Science?
This event is free and open to all. Please RSVP to the organizers, Erik Kwakkel and Ramona Venema, by sending an email to Erik Kwakkel
Paper abstracts : here
Source de l’information : Universiteit Leiden
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