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6th ANZAMEMS Conference, Adelaide, 7-10 Feb 2007
Digital Resources for the Interdisciplinary Study of Post-Conquest Manuscripts
Elzbieta [email protected] [email protected]
Imagine you could trace history of DB villages and localities
count accurately female owners and their possessions in 12th, 13th, 14th c.
answer questions about how many scribes/hands contributed to a MS
examine interaction between languages: Latin, French and English
Resources you'd need digital facsimile copies, transcripts, translation
notes: palaeographical, historical, contextual
databases: exhaustive tagging, powerful search
hyperlinks to related objects
Experts in
history, also of culture, religion, social history, geography
palaeography, also diplomatics, history of the book
philology: specialists in Medieval Latin, Old French, Old and Middle English
digital resources
First step
The Domesday Book: a model Digital Domesday (Alecto edition with search
engine) Domesday Explorer aka the Hull Database
(sophisticated search and analysis engine) COEL database (Domesday personal names
with related documentation up to 1166)
Continuation
In the long run
Hundreds of classes of sources
Enables
evidence-based studies
tracking changes
complete coverage
What's in it for me
Study 150 sources listed in the county volumes of the English Place-Name Society (EPNS) from which my PhD data came.
Map 40: Distribution of items in 12th and 13th c
13th c. Tally Sticks
Image downloaded from http://www/nationalarchives. gov.uk/museum/item.asp?item_id=6
More details on confluence website, click on NEER Participants with Personal Spaces, click on Elzbieta Majocha and then on 6th ANZAMEMS Conference Talk.
