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Historical Sources and Transnational Approaches to European History


Programme
Venue: International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture, Via Montebello 7, 50123 Florence
(Dr. Jonathan Gumz, University of Birmingham)
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 13.00 Panel discussion: CENDARI - a research infrastructure that gets librarians, escientists, digital humanists, medieval and modern historians to work together
(Members of CENDARI partner institutions)
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.00 Seminar: Transnational questions raised by the collections of the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini
(Prof. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture)
16.00 – 17.00 Break
17.00 Keynote Address: The undetermined nature of transnational history
(Prof. Jay Winter, Yale University)
(DrGraham Jefcoate)
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 13.00 Seminar: Search algorithms and machine translation
(Dr Alex O'Connor, Trinity College Dublin)
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.00 Hands-on-session: Working with the Fondazione collections and finding aids
(Prof. Nicole Bériou)
16.30 Optional: Guided Tour of Florence – details to be confirmed
(Moderated by Dr Jakub Beneš, Dr Pavlina Bobič and Dr Klaus Richter, University of Birmingham)
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 13.00 Colloquium: Continued
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.00 Seminar: How research methodologies translate into digital methodologies
(Prof. Sheila Anderson, King’s College, London)
16.00 – 17.00 Break
17.00 Reception at University of Florence (see link)
09.30 – 11.00 Demonstration: Cutting-edge projects for the procession of historical data
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 13.00 Brainstorming Session: What makes a usefultool for historical research?
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.00 Hands-on session: Designing a digital tool for historical research
16.00 – 17.00 Break
17.00 Optional Cultural Programme: details to be confirmed
Louise Edwards, Franco De Vivo, Dr. Jakub Beneš, Dr. Pavlina Bobič and Dr. Klaus Richter
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 13.00 Keynote Address: Digital History - A paradigm shift?
Dr. Hugh Denard, Trinity College Dublin
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.00 Final plenary discussion: Challenges of transnational history and historical sources
16.00 Close
Gesta sanctae ac universalis octavae synodi quae Constantinopoli congregata est. Anastasio bibliothecario interprete
Presentazione del volume
La vicenda di Fozio, con la sua deposizione nel quarto concilio di Costantinopoli, ottavo ecumenico (869-870), e la riabilitazione dieci anni più tardi, rappresenta esemplarmente la complessità dei rapporti tra la Chiesa latina e le Chiese d'Oriente nell'alto medioevo. Gli atti - pervenuti in greco soltanto per riassunto - sono tramandati integralmente nella coeva traduzione latina di Anastasio, bibliotecario della Sede apostolica e intermediario dei rapporti ecclesiastici e culturali tra Roma e Bisanzio. La presente edizione si fonda principalmente sul manoscritto predisposto dagli amanuensi dello stesso Anastasio, che poi vi inserirono le correzioni da lui ordinate. Il confronto tra le due redazioni permette di seguire le fasi del lavoro del traduttore e la scrupolosa revisione cui egli sottopose la propria opera.
Medieval Anonymous Texts and Digital Research Infrastructures
SEMI: SEminars on Middle Ages and Information Technology
May 24th 2013. Location: SISMEL/FEF, Via Montebello 7, 50123 Florence
14.45 Keynote speech ‐ Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (SISMEL)
Anonymous Texts as a Key to Understanding Middle Ages?
15.00 Round table on Representing Anonymity
From Authors, Texts and Manuscripts Census towards a New Generation of Digital
Research Infrastructures
The aim of this round table is to investigate the importance and extent of anonymity in Medieval culture, focus on the most relevant research questions related to anonymous texts and review tools and techniques used to represent and mange anonymity within a number of large scholarly databases of medieval authors texts and manuscripts. The emerging digital research space is posing new questions both to scholars and ICT experts: how traditional databases of medieval authors, texts and manuscripts could be improved using semantic technologies? Will it be possible to enable new research perspectives on anonymity in the Middle Ages history and literature using innovative semantic tools? Moreover the vast amount of digital information on anonyms already available in the digital domain is often hard to browse and manage and the problem of finding reliable identification mechanisms is still unsolved.
Participants
J. Deploige (Ghent University)
Anonymity in the Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries
L. Pinelli (SISMEL)
Anonymous Texts in Medioevo latino
M. Cerno (University of Cassino)
Compendia of anonymous hagiographic and liturgic texts
S. Nocentini (SISMEL)
Towards a Compendium Auctorum (CALMA) for Anonymous Texts and Authors?
R. Gamberini (University of Trento)
Anonyms and Pseudepigrapha
R. Tinaburri (University of Cassino)
Anonymous Texts in the Anglo-Saxon World
G. Pomaro (SISMEL)
Anonymous Texts in Medieval Manuscripts
A. Decaria (University of Siena)
Anonymous texts in the Medieval Vernacular Tradition
S. Anderson (King's College London)
Managing anonymity with semantic tools
E. Degl'Innocenti (Fondazione Ezio Franceschini)
Moving Databases a Step Forward
F. Butini (Fondazione Ezio Franceschini)
Ontologies: an Overview
Z. Uhlíř (National Library of the Czech Republic)
Semantics and Manoscriptorium
Amicorum societas
Mélanges offert à François Dolbeau pour son 65e anniversaire
Études réunies par Jacques Elfassi, Cécile Lanéry et Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk
Presentazione del volume
Après les Parva pro magnis munera offerts en 2009 par ses élèves, ces nouveaux Mélanges rassemblent les contributions de l’amicorum societas de François Dolbeau, désireuse de rendre hommage à l’un des plus grands découvreurs de textes tardo-antiques et médiévaux de notre époque. La bibliographie complète et raisonnée de François Dolbeau, qu’avec la générosité dont chacun a pu faire l’expérience il a luimême rédigée et indexée, atteste de la multiplicité de ses talents et des textes dont il a enrichi l’histoire littéraire de l’Occident latin. Ce volume, à son tour, voudrait en témoignage d’amitié et d’admiration lui offrir quelques découvertes dans des domaines qui lui sont chers, tels que l’homilétique, l’hagiographie, l’histoire des bibliothèques et de l’érudition, la lexicographie, la critique d’attribution, de l’Antiquité à l’époque moderne.
La miscellanea dalla Tardantichità al Medioevo
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Il problema storiografico del manoscritto miscellaneo;
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la miscellanea nei diversi contesti disciplinari (liturgico, scolastico, tecnico-pratico, religioso-spirituale ecc.)
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la miscellanea e il plurilinguismo della cultura medievale;
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esame di casi specifici, con attenzione particolare ai manoscritti dell’ambiente di Montecassino;
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l’uso di infrastrutture elettroniche per la conoscenza dei manoscritti miscellanei, con particolare riguardo agli omiliari.
Come i cristiani cambiarono il libro di storia
Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Sociali e della Salute
Aula 307. Via Marco Mazzaroppi, 6 – Cassino
Ore 10.00-13.30
Omaggio a Claudio Leonardi

Corpo, potere e scienza
Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Michel Pastoureau, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani
Il corpo del monaco
Introduzione
Riti vestimentari e prescrizioni rituali: il corpo del sacerdote nell’antichità comeponte fra umano e divino.
Il corpo del monaco, la rappresentazione sociale della santità nell’antichità tardiva.
Il corpo del monaco nelle fonti anglosassoni. Sondaggi
Il corpo del monaco, un modello?
Oronzo Pecere
