Sponsoring Organizations:

Corpus de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge, Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris – CNRS- Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Laboratório de Teoria e História das Mídias Medievais, PPGHIS/IH – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Delivery Mode: Virtual (fully online)

ICMS (Kalamazoo) 2023

Submission Deadline: 15 September 2022

Proposal Submission: Confex system https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/cfp.cgi

IMC (Leeds) 2023

Submission Deadline: 19 September 2022

Proposal Submission: Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short biography (CV) to Gabriel Castanho, gabriel.castanho@historia.ufrj.br

For over half a century, since R. Busa’s punch cards, medieval documents have been encoded in a binary data computing system. Currently, the digitization and structuring of documentary corpora is an unavoidable reality for the most part of the medievalists. However, little attention has been paid to the history and historicity of these uses, as well as the impacts of these new media, on the specific field of Medieval History. Reflecting on the historiographical epistemic consequences of the use of digitized corpora of documents is necessary and the central focus of this session of papers.
This paper session welcomes all approches in the field of Digital Humanities. In particular, research concerned with:
• History writing, historiography and its relations with the use of digitized corpora of medieval documents;
• The epistemic analysis on the impacts of the use of digital documentation for the production of knowledge about the Middle Ages;
• Historiographical periodizations and the use of digital documentation;
• The impacts of the previous elements on the production of knowledge in historiographical specific fields such as hagiography, diplomatics, cartography, etc…

Source : LAMOP