While working on the Estoria project and producing its digital outputs, I hope a side effect is that we can add to the general infrastructure of the ‘textual community’, and in particular the Birmingham and Saskatchewan implementations of that. I wrote a rather longer post here about how the technology of different projects could work … Continue reading “Building the textual community”
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Estoria team members continue globe trotting
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”
Return to EDIT HQ
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”
Time to Colloquium = 7 days and counting
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”
Too much excitement for a Tuesday morning
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”
How Castilian got its ñ
Trying to think of an eye-catching blog title for the evolution of NN towards Ñ, I had to weigh up two options: either the lovey-dovey cliché ‘when two become one’, or the African mythology approach: ‘how the (elephant) got its (trunk)’. I found the latter more appealing, since I judged that the Spice Girls might … Continue reading “How Castilian got its ñ”
Pancakes and prototypes
Today I was presented with pancakes which must mean it is Shrove Tuesday, where we indulge in sweet things in order to clear out our cupboards in time for the solemn reflection of the Lent season. Something left at the back of my cupboard is an internal working prototype that I have been working on. … Continue reading “Pancakes and prototypes”
To punctuate or not to punctuate…
One question we have not yet satisfactorily solved is the question of how the chronicle should be presented to the public. The clearest solution to these issues are dealt with the criteria outlined by the CHARTA project. We intend to produce an edition which will have collectable palaeographic (or perhaps “graphic” since we do not … Continue reading “To punctuate or not to punctuate…”
Sueldos, of various kinds.
When transcribing a section of E2, Christian came across an abbreviation not previously seen: The character represents the word “sueldos”. I wondered if it was the standard abbreviation for “solidi” as on a number of occasions Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada’s “solidi” become “sueldos” in the Estoria, and it seemed reasonable to me that the scribe … Continue reading “Sueldos, of various kinds.”
Research on the Estoria continues
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”