We are pleased to announce that preparations for the fourth annual EDIT colloquium are now well underway. The colloquium will take place at our home university, Birmingham, between Tuesday 13th and Thursday 15th December 2016. The electronic edition of the Estoria that we have spent the past four years preparing will be launched during these … Continue reading “The 4th Annual EDIT Colloquium – 13-15 December 2016, Birmingham”
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Beatriz of Swabia, a quick look at Alfonso’s mother, for Mother’s Day
It’s Mother’s Day here in the UK on Sunday, so I thought I’d have a little look at Queen Beatriz of Swabia, mother to everybody’s favourite mummy’s boy, Alfonso X. The fourth daughter of King Philip of Swabia and Queen Irene Angelina, Beatriz (or Elizabeth) was born in 1205 and was baptised Isabel. She was just … Continue reading “Beatriz of Swabia, a quick look at Alfonso’s mother, for Mother’s Day”
Guest Blog Post: Up Close and Personal with the Estoria de Espanna in Madrid
This is a guest blog post written by Nick Leonard, the Estoria project’s most active crowdsourcer and friend of the project. My interaction with two Estoria de Espanna manuscripts over the past 18 months, while enthralling in its own right, has largely taken the form of looking at lines of text through a digital magnifying glass. … Continue reading “Guest Blog Post: Up Close and Personal with the Estoria de Espanna in Madrid”
Impact impact impact
If you will excuse the slightly garish title, it is very much a reflection of how things are moving here at Estoria HQ. Alongside the final stages of our electronic edition of the Estoria, we are also heading an exciting initiative to bring the historiography of Alfonso X to the public. The first arm of … Continue reading “Impact impact impact”
It’s oh so quiet…. or is it?
The EDIT blog has gone a little quiet over the last few weeks, but rather than this meaning we are all in winter hibernation it is actually because we are all so busy working full steam on several aspects of the project. We are almost done with transcribing and checking the fifth and final manuscripts … Continue reading “It’s oh so quiet…. or is it?”
¡Feliz Navidad!
A very happy Christmas to all. We have a busy final year of the project coming up and we’ll be back in touch in the New Year with some further exciting news from the AHRC. Aengus
Christmas at the Estoria de Espanna Digital project
Christmas has come early to Estoria Towers. Our gift has come not from Father Christmas but from Professor Peter Robinson and Dr Cat Smith in the form of the collation tool, and it really is great. Suddenly all our hard work transcribing is starting to pay off as we can see the collation starting to … Continue reading “Christmas at the Estoria de Espanna Digital project”
Review of the III Annual EDIT Colloquium (Estoria Digital) in Seville, by Enrique Jerez
Reseñar brevemente la celebración en Sevilla la semana pasada de las II Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de la Lengua e Historiografía en combinación con el III Annual EDIT Colloquium (Estoria Digital) exige en especial llamar la atención precisamente sobre la motivación que animó su organización conjunta y que presidió su desarrollo: propiciar la confluencia de … Continue reading “Review of the III Annual EDIT Colloquium (Estoria Digital) in Seville, by Enrique Jerez”
III EDiT Colloquium/II Jornadas de Historiografía/Historia de la Lengua
Our third colloquium took place at the Universidad de Sevilla in collaboration with our wonderful colleagues from the Historia15 project between the 23rd and 25th of November 2015. It proved to be a marvellous week of intellectual exchange which will live long in the memory. Day 1 saw the inauguration in the presence of the … Continue reading “III EDiT Colloquium/II Jornadas de Historiografía/Historia de la Lengua”
The Estoria de Espanna Project goes to De Montfort
Most of the Estoria team have been in Seville this week at the third annual project colloquium. There will hopefully be at least one nice blog post on here on that topic before too long! Let’s just give them chance to pick up their suitcases off the luggage carousel, shall we? I, however, have not … Continue reading “The Estoria de Espanna Project goes to De Montfort”