Yesterday was a big day at Estoria Towers, even though it almost passed without us noticing. It was the day that the biggest and most time-consuming task of the project was finally completed. For three and a half years we have been working on transcribing the five witnesses of the Estoria de Espanna, and yesterday Enrique … Continue reading “The completion of the transcription stage”
Category: Work on the project
Upcoming Research Seminar
We are pleased to announce our upcoming research seminar which will take place on April 14th 2016 at the University of Birmingham (Arts Building Room G37, 2.30pm). We will be hearing from two guests of the project, Mariana Leite and Rosa María Rodríguez Porto, as well as our very own Ricardo Pichel. All are invited … Continue reading “Upcoming Research Seminar”
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”
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”
Call for Guest Blog Posts
The Estoria de Espanna Digital Project would like to invite guest blog posts for inclusion on this site. Do you have something interesting to share with us to do with the topic of our project? Are you a crowdsourcer who would like to tell us your thoughts or experiences? Have you researched Alfonso X, his works … Continue reading “Call for Guest Blog Posts”
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”
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”
Project goings-on
AcWriMo – Weekly Update #2 After a short pause to allow for our annual colloquium and the necessary preparations (read: crazy couple of days sorting out last minute things) I have managed to Crack On with Academic Writing Month. Finding time for academic writing (I feel that should be capitalised but I will refrain) was more … Continue reading “Project goings-on”
Revised transcription Guidelines and preparation course
In advance of the colloquium at Magdalen College Oxford, we have published a revised set of Transcription Guidelines for the project, which can be found here. Polly and Christian have now finished the training course for transcribing for the Estoria project (with thanks to Enrique, Alicia and Marine for help with the translations).