Manuscripts as artefacts

As you will have seen from Polly’s post below, lately we have been considering the relationship between the physical text (medieval manuscripts in our case) and the digital output which we are in the process of constructing here at the Estoria Digital. The immediate response to the question “why keep the manuscript then?” (and I … Continue reading “Manuscripts as artefacts”

Programme for the upcoming colloquium in Seville

It is with great pleasure that we publish the programme for the third annual Estoria de Espanna Digital Project colloquium, otherwise known as the ‘II Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de la Lengua e Historiografía: Estoria Digital’ to be held in Seville in November 2015.  

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Original manuscripts or digital images? That is the question.

This morning Aengus and I were discussing the problems solved and caused by digitally editing medieval manuscript prose. One of the points raised was that the digitised images we use to transcribe from can often be of a far higher quality than the human eye could see in real life without magnifying tools. As long … Continue reading “Original manuscripts or digital images? That is the question.”

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Crowdsourcing update – June 2015

It’s Daddy Daycare time here at Duxfield Towers so I can work on a journal article I wrote before Mini Medievalist made her entrance into our lives and I was launched into a world of nappies, night-feeds and more mummy coffee mornings than I care to admit to. I’m back at the dining room table … Continue reading “Crowdsourcing update – June 2015”

Birthday time

Everyone knows that here at the Estoria project we love a bit of cake. And what better excuse that the birthday of our very own Mr Christian Kusi-Obodum BA(hons) PGCE?  

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Project update

It might seem like it has all gone quiet at the Estoria project, but of course that is not really the case! You know us – we are hardworking researchers. We are continuing to beaver away on our transcriptions and we feel like we can see light at the end of the tunnel. Hooray! We … Continue reading “Project update”

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Special tea break!

Here at Estoria Towers we interrupted our busy day of transcribing, thesis-writing and preparing for Friday’s seminar at QMUL for our daily tea and cake break, but today this was no ordinary tea break. Our esteemed leader Dr Aengus Ward is christening his brand new Alfonso mug, courtesy of Dr Jules Whicker, and our beloved … Continue reading “Special tea break!”

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A quick update

We are now back into the swing of the project after a nice Christmas break and we already have a few exciting things in the pipeline. Our next outing is set for the coming week, when the UK-based members of the team will be travelling to Queen Mary University of London to talk about the … Continue reading “A quick update”

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