Author: Polly Duxfield

Honorary EDiT team member Alicia Montero Málaga will be presenting her paper “Urban elites and aristocracy in Castile at the end of the Middle Ages. New perspectives of analysis.” When? Wednesday 25th June 2014 at 11.00am Where? University of Birmingham, ERI Building, Room G54 Please come along to the next exciting Estoria event. All welcome.

The EDiT team have been very busy recently, now that conference season is well upon us. Bárbara has been shaking her Digital Humanities tail-feathers at a conference in Mexico City. Christian, Alicia and I have been promoting the project like nobody’s business at the EMREM Birmingham PG symposium last week. I have been to the … Continue reading “Estoria team members continue globe trotting”

So our first colloquium has been and gone. Over all it was a very successful and enjoyable event, even though we do say so ourselves, and we had some pleasing feedback from our guests. It was a great opportunity to show off all the things we have been doing and using so far, such as … Continue reading “Return to EDIT HQ”

Thankfully, despite the 442 views we got on Facebook this week, the whole EDIT team have survived ‘hug a medievalist day’ on Monday without too many PDAs as would be seemly for a project based in Britain. Good job really, since the very first annual EDIT colloquium is just around the corner. As you can … Continue reading “Time to Colloquium = 7 days and counting”

Christian and I spent the morning tagging along with Aengus’s second year medievalists in the university’s special collections library, the Cadbury Research Library. Despite the name there was unfortunately no chocolate to be eaten, but instead there were other goodies for us to get our teeth into. We looked at a couple of medieval Books … Continue reading “Too much excitement for a Tuesday morning”

So Reading Week has been and gone at the Estoria de Espanna HQ. No lectures or seminars to go to meant a very productive week for me. I spent the week finishing off my database of concordances and starting to analyse these for a chapter of my thesis on Alfonsine attitudes to language, of which … Continue reading “Research on the Estoria continues”

Here at EDIT we are busy getting ready for our first colloquium which will take place in April. Most of our guests are now invited and those who are speaking are well on the way to preparing their papers. This will be my first academic conference, which is exciting, and I will also be giving … Continue reading “Preparations for the first EDIT colloquium are coming along!”

I have just transcribed E2 19v. There are lots more abbreviations than in the pages Marine and I have been transcribing for the past few weeks (20r-49v) and it took loads longer than the other pages have been taking me. This one took a whole 68 minutes. I used our new Tironian Note tag and … Continue reading “Practising with the new tags”

We are now halfway through the first working week of the new year and already lots is happening at the Estoria de Espanna Project. The most exciting thing is that our new colleague, Christian, has finally joined the team. I am yet to find out whether or not he is a tea-drinker. I am sure … Continue reading “An exciting start to the New Year!”