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Cultural Syncretism and Interpicturality: The Iconography of Throne Benches in Medieval Icelandic Book Painting

Open Cultural Studies, 2023
In relation to the major topic of the present volume, this article is intended to provide new methodological and iconographic insights into the cultural adaptation and integration of European iconographic motifs in the medieval western Scandinavian arts ...
Drechsler Stefan
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New Technologies, Training Initiatives and the Future of Manuscript Studies [PDF]

Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2023
We are standing at the edge of a major transformation in manuscript studies. Digital surrogates, Digital Humanities analyses and the rise of new scientific analytical technologies proliferate across universities, libraries and museums.
Eyal Poleg
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Libraries in the Manuscript Age [PDF]

, 2023
Ancient, medieval and modern libraries in various regions (the Muslim world, East Asia, Byzantium, Western Europe) are known only by the manuscripts they kept or documents that shed light on their history.

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Comparative Hagiology and/as Manuscript Studies: Method and Materiality

Religions, 2019
Although the academic study of hagiography continues to flourish, the role of comparative methods within the study of sanctity and the saints remains underutilized.
Barbara Zimbalist
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Data Mining a Medieval Medical Text Reveals Patterns in Ingredient Choice That Reflect Biological Activity against Infectious Agents

mBio, 2020
The pharmacopeia used by physicians and laypeople in medieval Europe has largely been dismissed as placebo or superstition. While we now recognize that some of the materia medica used by medieval physicians could have had useful biological properties ...
Erin Connelly, Charo I. del Genio, Freya Harrison   +2 more
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Scribal networks: Visualizing twelfth-century Cistercian book production through network analysis

Journal of Historical Network Research, 2023
This paper tests the application of network analysis to the visualization and analysis of paleographical data. In recent years, the twelfth-century scriptoria of the Austrian Cistercian monasteries of Heiligenkreuz, Zwettl and Baumgartenberg have been ...
Katharina Kaska
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Parallel Glosses, Shared Glosses, and Gloss Clustering: Can Network-Based Approach Help Us to Understand Organic Corpora of Glosses?

Journal of Historical Network Research, 2023
Glossing was an important element of medieval Western manuscript culture. Yet, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their philological triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity ...
Evina Stein
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Investigation on the collation of the first Fight book (Leeds, Royal Armouries, Ms I.33)

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
This paper investigates the collation of the first Fight Book, the Leeds, Royal Armouries, Ms I.33. It critically reviews previous hypotheses about the composition of the quires and the identification of the material lacuna, and proposes a new hypothesis.
Binard Fanny, Jaquet Daniel
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Manuscript Albums and their Cultural Contexts [PDF]

Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, owners form their albums as representations of their selves, their worlds, and their traditions. The volume’s

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Integrating Premodern Manuscript Metadata into Wikidata: A Case Study in Ontology Design and Linked Data Reuse

Journal of Open Humanities Data
This article presents Digital Scriptorium’s efforts to model and integrate premodern manuscript metadata into Wikidata, addressing challenges posed by inconsistent cataloging practices and the limitations of existing data models.
Rose A. McCandless, L. P. Coladangelo
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