‘Digital Editing and Medieval Manuscripts’ – Workshop series in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice

“Digital Editing and Medieval Manuscripts” is a series of three workshops organised by Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice together with the Cologne Center for eHumanities within the ERC StG Project BIFLOW seminar programme “Lingue, saperi e conflitti nell’Italia medievale”. It aims to explore the role of digital technologies in the field of medieval studies and to provide insights into current methodologies and digital tools in scholarly editing. These three workshops will introduce participants to current approaches for editing medieval manuscripts in a digital framework. During the workshops the following topics will be covered: palaeography; codicology; as well as practices and theories of digital editing, including critical apparatus, multilingualism and text-image linking.

Announcement on biflow.hypothesis.org

I: Digital Manuscripts

3 luglio 2017 ore 9:30 – 18:00 Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà , Sala Consiglio (“Sala Grande”)

9.30 – 10.00 Welcome Antonio Montefusco, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

10.00 – 10.30 Franz Fischer, Cologne Center for eHumanities, Universität zu Köln

“Editing Medieval Texts: Theories, Practices, and Challenges in the Digital Age”

10.30 – 11.00 Paolo Monella, Università di Palermo
“Multi-layer textual representation of pre-modern primary sources”

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 12.00 Marjorie Burghart, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
“Tools and Software for Editing Medieval Texts”

12.00 – 12.30 Discussion

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 – 18.00 Workshop

Alberto Campagnolo, CLIR/Library of Congress, (video conference)
“Towards a digitization of the materiality of documents”

Tiziana Mancinelli CCeH – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Comitato scientifico: Antonio Montefusco, Tiziana Mancinelli

Comitato organizzatore: Sara Bischetti, Maria Conte, con la gentile collaborazione di Stefano Pezzé, Giulia Zava.

Ciclo di workshop organizzato nell’ambito del progetto BIFLOW

Bilingualism in Florentine and Tuscan Works (ca. 1260 – ca. 1416)

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 637533).