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Enrique and Aengus spent 10 days on a whistle stop tour of Spain at the end of April to examine manuscripts of the Estoria de Espanna and to make arrangements for our Impact activities which will take place from January 2017 onwards. Day 1 for Aengus was spent at the Instituto de Patrimonio Cultural de … Continue reading “April 2016: Archives and exhibitions”

There’s lots going on here at the EDIT project and it’s about time we gave you a little update. We have finished or almost finished all of the witnesses we are going to be transcribing. Aengus has been busily preparing the collation and Zeth has made a regularisation tool that Christian and I will be … Continue reading “Project Update: April 2016”

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”

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”

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?”

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 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”

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”