Digitising the Middle Ages: The Impacts of Digitized Corpora on Medieval Historiography

Le LaMOP sera présent à l’International Medieval Congress de Leeds, entre autres avec une session (1040) intitulée Digitising the Middle Ages: The Impacts of Digitized Corpora on Medieval Historiography, organisée par Gabriel Castanho (Instituto de História, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) et Eliana Magnani (Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LaMOP – UMR 8589), Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris). Elle sera présidée par Nicolas Perreaux (Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LaMOP – UMR 8589), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Mercredi 5 juillet 2023, 9h-10h30

Résumé (anglais)

For over half a century, since R. Busa’s punch cards, medieval documents have been encoded in binary data computing systems. Currently, the digitisation 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 and epistemic consequences of the use of digitized corpora of documents is necessary and the central focus of this session of papers.

Programme

Serial Work on Digital Sources of the Parliament of Paris in the 15th Century: Historiographical Problems
Pauline Spychala, Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris
Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Historiography – Modern Scholarship

Gifts, Networks, and Digitised Corpora: Rethinking Territorial Sovereignty in the Principality of Burgundy under John the Fearless and Philip the Good, 1404-1467
Baptiste Rameau, Archéologie, Terre, Histoire et Sociétés (ARTEHIS – UMR 6298), Université de Bourgogne
Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Historiography – Modern Scholarship

Medieval Dominants and Their Representations of Power Relations: An Analysis of the CEMA Corpus
Evgeniya Shelina, Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura, Università di Torino
Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Computing in Medieval Studies; Language and Literature – Latin; Mentalities

Digitisations and Qualitative Analysis: A Case Study on the Parlement of Toulouse in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Gert-Jan Van de Voorde, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent / University of St Andrews
Index Terms: Historiography – Medieval; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Political Thought

Sponsors

Corpus de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge (CBMA)

Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LaMOP – UMR 8589)

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne