Digital Editorial Approaches to Medieval Charters

Chairs

Elli Bleeker (DHLab of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands)

Elli Bleeker works as a researcher at the DHLab of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. She was a research fellow in the DiXiT network (2013–2017) and completed her PhD at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics of the University of Antwerp (2017). Her research interests lie in text modeling, digital scholarly editing, semi-automated collation, textual scholarship, markup, ontologies for text, and semantic markup. Currently, she studies the potential of graph technologies for the modeling and comparison of literary and historical texts. Elli Bleeker is a board member of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, a member of the DHBenelux Executive Board and Steering Committee, and a member of the TEI Technical Council.

Roger Evans (University of Brighton)

Roger Evans is a Reader in Computer Science in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics – University of Brighton and a member of the Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable Systems. His research explores applications of computer technology (knowledge representation, advanced algorithms, machine learning, software engineering), particularly applied to problems involving natural languages, with a focus on lexicalist approaches. He has been involved in several projects that use text mining and semantic metadata in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics, including the Digging into Data round 2 project ChartEx, a partnership between historians, archivists, and experts in computer science and artificial intelligence aimed at extracting information from 12th to 16th-centuries charters.

Guest speakers

Georg Vogeler (University of Graz –ZIM)

Georg Vogeler is a founding member of the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik, technical director of the monasterium-consortium, and a member of the board of directors of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities. Between 1997 and 2011, he worked at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, and since 2011 at the Centre for Information Modeling – University of Graz, where he started his full professorship in Digital Humanities in 2016. His research interests lie in the field of late medieval administrative records, the diplomatics of the charters of Frederic II (1194-1250), digital diplomatics, digital editing, and the application of semantic web technologies to humanities research questions. Georg Vogeler has received several international grants in these fields, including the European Research Council Advanced Grant project From Digital to Distant Diplomatics (2022-2026).

Lynne Cahill (University of Sussex)

Lynne Cahill is a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sussex, where she obtained her PhD in Cognitive and Computational Linguistics (1989). Her research interests lie in English, German, Dutch, and Arabic phonology, orthography, and morphology, especially variant or non-standard spelling applied to Medieval writing and modern computer-mediated communication. Lynne Cahill has received several international grants in these fields, such as the Economic & Social Research Council project OLYORTH: Multilingual Lexical Representation of Orthography (2005- 2006), and was involved in a range of projects at Sussex and Brighton universities, including the lexicon for Latin and Medieval Legal English on the Digging into Data project ChartEx.

Miguel Calleja-Puerta (University of Oviedo)

Miguel Calleja-Puerta is a Professor of Historiographical Sciences and Techniques at the University of Oviedo, where he obtained his PhD in History (2000). He had several postdoctoral stays at the Universities of Poitiers, Lisbon, Oxford, and Porto and is a member of Commission International de Diplomatique. His research interests lie mainly in Paleography and Diplomatics, including the digital edition of Iberian notarial charters from the 12th-17th centuries. He is the Principal Investigator of the research group DocuLab – Historical Documentation Laboratory.

Peter A. Stokes (University PSL – Paris)

Peter Stokes is a research professor in digital and computational humanities applied to historical writing and chargé de mission for digital humanities at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université Paris Sciences & Lettres. He has lectured at King's College London, the University of Cambridge, the University of Leicester, the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London, and the University of Tours. He is co-director of eScriptorium for the automatic and manual transcription of handwritten documents and coordinator of Cluster 4 for the French national project Biblissima+. His research combines the fields of palaeography, digital humanities, and computer science, as well as the description and analysis of handwriting, multigraphism, lexicography, and Anglo-Saxon charters. Peter Stokes has received several international grants in these fields, including the European Research Council Starting Grant for his project DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic (2010-2014).

Sean M. Winslow (University of Graz – ZIM)

Sean Michael Winslow obtained his PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto (2015), where he has worked as a teaching assistant. Since 2017, he has been a Postdoc Researcher in Diplomatics and Digital Humanities at the Centre for Information Modeling – University of Graz, specialising in Manuscript Studies, Medieval History, Book History, and Print Culture. He has participated in several research projects on the modeling and long-term preservation of charters and worked in the Charters Encoding Initiative ODD, a compatible extension of the TEI-P5 that expands the cataloguing elements of the msdescription module with specialised elements for Diplomatics concepts.

Speakers

Éva Teiszler (Institute of Hungarian Research)

Éva Teiszler earned a BA in Medieval Studies (2002), a MA in Library Informatics (2004), and a PhD in History (2014) from the University of Szeged. Her research on the Anjou era is currently hosted by the Centre for History of the Institute of Hungarian Research. Since 2021, she has been working at the King St. Stephen Museum.

Filipa Roldão (University of Lisbon, CH-Ulisboa)

Filipa Roldão earned a BA in History (2003), a MA in Palaeography and Diplomatics (2007), and a PhD in History (2011) from the University of Lisbon. In 2012-2019 she worked as a postdoc fellow of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and since 2019 as an Assistant Researcher at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon. Her main research interests lie in written culture, urban administration, municipal archives, and the edition of Latin and Portuguese manuscripts. She is the Deputy Director of CH-ULisboa for Digital Humanities and the Principal Investigator of the project iForal – Portuguese Municipal Charters in the Middle Ages: an historical and linguistic approach in the digital era (2021-2024), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

Joana Serafim (University of Zurich / University of Lisbon, CLUL)

Joana Serafim completed a BA in Classical Languages and Literatures at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (2001) and a PhD in Literature at the University of Aveiro (2009). Her research interests lie mainly in philology, textual criticism, medieval Latin, and Latin literature. Since 2021, she holds the Chair Carlos de Oliveira at the University of Zürich. Joana Serafim is also Co-PI of the project iForal – Portuguese Municipal Charters in the Middle Ages: an historical and linguistic approach in the digital era (2021-2024), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

João Paulo Silvestre (University of Aveiro, CLLC)

João Paulo Silvestre earned a BA in Portuguese, Latin, and Greek (2000) and a PhD in Linguistics (2011) from the University of Aveiro. He worked as a postdoc fellow of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2005-2014) and was an Invited Assistant Professor at King's College London (2015-2020). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro. His main research interests lie in lexicology, lexicography, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics. She is also a researcher of the project iForal – Portuguese Municipal Charters in the Middle Ages: an historical and linguistic approach in the digital era (2021-2024).

Krisztina Rábai (University of Szeged)

Krisztina Rábai earned her PhD in History at the University of Szeged (2013), where she has been researching and teaching since 2008. In 2016-2017, she held a temporary position as a research fellow at the Silesian University in Opava and at the University of Hradec Králové (Czechia). Her research interests lie in auxiliary historical sciences (paleography, diplomatic, filigranology, codicology, sigillography), paper history, and the history of medicine. She has been working on the edition of Hungarian charters from the 14th century, as a member of the editorial board of the Angevin Archives.

Vasco Sousa (University of Aveiro, IEETA)

Vasco Sousa has a degree in Computer Engineering and Telematics from the University of Aveiro and is a MA student in Computer Engineering at the same institution. He is a research fellow of the project iForal – Portuguese Municipal Charters in the Middle Ages: an historical and linguistic approach in the digital era (2021-2024).

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Elsa Pereira (University of Lisbon, CLUL)

Elsa Pereira is a contracted researcher at CLUL, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, where she has been teaching Digital Scholarly Editing in the Textual Criticism Programme. After graduating from the University of Porto – BA (2003), MA (2007), and PhD (2013) in Romance Literatures and Cultures – she has worked as a Post-doc fellow of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2014-2019). Her research interests lie in Portuguese literature, with a focus on textual studies, scholarly editing, and digital humanities. She is also a researcher of the project iForal – Portuguese Municipal Charters in the Middle Ages: an historical and linguistic approach in the digital era (2021-2024).