Medieval Digital Humanities at Leeds 2018

It’s nearly IMC Leeds time again! Thousands of medievalists will descend on the University of Leeds on July 2-5. I am continuing in my tradition of compiling digital humanities, digitally inflected, and DH-adjacent sessions, papers, and activities into one handy list. The total so far is 41 sessions that include at least one digital/computing presentation. (Compare this list and total with the 46 from 2017 and 36 from 2015.)

The conference indexes individual papers with the index term “Computing in Medieval Studies,” as determined by the presenter. Papers under that list are shown in blue. I have also included sessions in the conference strand “Memory, 19: Digital.” For those sessions, the session title is in blue rather than the paper titles. Additional papers and sessions below are ones I added. Since I am not going to the conference this year, I don’t have the physical program and had to rely on the conference database to search for things, so this year’s list may be more skewed to sessions that officially tagged themselves as “Computing”, fyi.

The list includes the session number, session title, paper title(s) and speaker(s). The session title is also a link to the conference website’s description of the session with further information. I will also add speakers’ Twitter handles as requested.

The session number is structured like #s138 as a reminder that if you are tweeting during a session, you should use both the conference hashtag (#imc2018) AND the session hashtag (e.g. #s538). Following this protocol helps people follow particular sessions remotely.

The conference website with the full list of sessions is available here. Tweet along with @IMC_Leeds using the hashtag #imc2018. IMC has a social media policy [here], so give it a look before heading to the conference. Dorothy Kim’s #MedievalTwitter post from In the Middle from a few years ago is still useful

I am certain there are papers and sessions that I missed. Please leave a comment with a correction, an addition, or a removal.

Monday, 2 July 2018

• 11:15-12:45

  • #s112 – Network Analysis for Medieval Studies, I: Network Analysis of Medieval Charters
    • ‘Et se en defaloient de cest paiement…’: Personal Pledging and Social Networks, 13th Century, Sébastien de Valeriola
    • Recipients and Witnesses of High Medieval Charters: A Social Network Analysis of the German Political System during the Reign of Frederick I Barbarossa, 1152-90, Clemens Beck
    • A Knowledge Base of Charters from the Regesta Imperii for Generating Networks in Medieval Social and Constitutional History, Christian Knüpfer

• 14:15-15:45

  • #s212 – Network Analysis for Medieval Studies, II: The Dynamics of Medieval Political and Personal Networks
    • The Dynamic Networks of a Royal Household: Scotland, 1222-1371, Matthew H. Hammond
    • The Participation of Women (and Some Men) in Languedocian Catharism: A Network Science Perspective, II, David Zbíral
    • Structural Balance: ‘Political Factions’ and Their Rapid Change in the 13th-Century Holy Roman Empire, Robert Gramsch-Stehfest
  • #s213 – Women as Letter Writers and Scribes
    • Margaret Paston’s Letters Changing or Not Changing: A Pragmatic Approach in the Analysis of Characters of the Topics in Her Letters, Osamu Ohara
  • #s221 – Remembering the Troubadours in the Crown of Aragon: Mapping, Manuscripts, and Narrative
    • Geopolitical Memory: Mapping the Catalan Chansonniers, Miriam Cabré Ollé
    • Remembering the ‘Ancient’ Troubadours: Memory and Interpretation of Troubadour Lyrics in Occitan Treatises, Sadurní Martí
  • #s338 – Memoria (and MeMO) in Practice
    • Medieval Floor Slabs in the Netherlands: Iconography and Intentions, Corinne van Dijk
    • Commemorating Ancestors: Chronicles of Noble Houses and Memoria, Rolf de Weijert
    • Medieval Commemoration in Stained-Glass Windows, Charlotte Dikken

• 16:30-18:00

  • #s312 – Network Analysis for Medieval Studies, III: Networks of Manuscripts, Authors, and Authorities
    • Glosses to the First Book of the Etymologies as a Case Study in Early Medieval Intellectual Networks, Evina Steinová
    • Networks in the Czech Reformation: The Case of the Lay Chalice, Petra Mutlová
    • Metadata for the Middle Ages: A Network Analysis of Manuscriptorium.com, Zdenko Vozár
  • #s346 – Memory and Memoria: The Dead Can’t Defend Themselves or, How Archives Create Portraits of Personalities
    • The Digital Archive: Data-Based (His-)Stories, Peter Hinkelmanns

• 19:00-20:00

  • #s438 – The Future of MeMO and Memoria Studies – A Round Table Discussion
    • Truus van Bueren, Charlotte Dikken, Tine Kondrup, and Tillman Lohse

Tuesday, 3 July 2018

• 9:00-10:30

  • #s518 – Technology and the ‘Memory’ of Medieval Art and Architecture, I: Materials
    • Textile Studies in the Digital Age: The Medieval Textiles in Iberia and the Mediterranean Research Project, María Judith Feliciano
    • From Textile Fragments to Luxury Garments: Reconstructing Medieval Textiles from Their Materiality, Ana Cabrera-Lafuente
    • Quantity, Memory, and the Parchment Inheritance, Bruce Holsinger
  • #s538 – A Digital Key to Matthew Parker’s Legacy: New Contributions through Parker on the Web 2.0
    • Matthew Parker’s Library: ‘The chief treasury of his manuscripts’ as Research Collection and Digital Resource, Alexander Devine
    • Marginalia, Memory, and Metadata in Cambridge: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 41, Patricia O’Connor
    • An Eye For An Eye: IIIF, Archetype, and Parker Too, Stewart Brookes

• 11:15-12:45

  • #s602 – Landscape Transformation and Representation
    • Continuities and Changes in the Landscape of the Visigoth Capital of Toletum, Spain: The Aristocratic Building of Los Hitos, 6th-8th Centuries, Jorge Morín
  • #s618 – Technology and the ‘Memory’ of Medieval Art and Architecture, II: Models
    • Mapping Visual Memory: Networks of Artistic Contact in French Gothic Manuscripts, Alex Brey and Maeve Doyle
    • Visualizing Anician Topographies of Power with SketchUp and QGIS, Kaelin Jewell
    • Recovering a Lost State: The 12th-Century East End at Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay, Kristine Tanton
  • #s636 – Save the Date!: Conflicting Ideas about the Quality of Time in Memory and for Prognosis, II
    • There Will Be Blood…: Deciding on the Best and Worst Days to Let Blood in Carolingian Times, Ria Paroubek-Groenewoud
    • Be Still and Wait for Better Times: Unlucky Days in Early Medieval Manuscripts, Annemarie Veenstra
    • As Sure as the Sun Will Rise?: Dealing with Conflicting Ideas about Days and Times in the Carolingian Period, Carine van Rhijn
  • #s638 – The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Constructing Memory through Manuscripts, 8th-12th Centuries
    • Constructing memory through liturgy, Laura Albiero
    • Imagines poetarum: Manuscripts of classical authors and their decoration, England and France, 8th-12th centuries, Cristian Ispir
    • The use of diagrams in the transmission of knowledge, Francesco Siri
  • #s640 – Imperial Memory Then and Now, I: Personal Agency in Byzantine Macedonia
    • Digital Memory-Keeping of Border: Warlords in Byzantine Macedonia in the OpenAtlas Database, Bernhard Koschicek
  • #s649 – Disaster Memory in the Middle Ages, II
    • Christopher of Bavaria and Climate-Related Crises in the Light of Memory of Nature, Heli Huhtamaa
  • #s653 – Manus-On Manuscripts, II: Digital Editing Methods – A Workshop
    • Anya Adair

• 14:15-15:45

  • #s708 – La Mémoire Des Images: Beasts and Animals Changing through Contexts in the Middle Ages
    • Images of Mouth of Hell in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11, Gesner Las Casas Brito Filho
    • The Origin of the Unicorn as Steed in Medieval Culture, Adriana Gallardo Luque
    • The Rhetoric of Images: Memory and Ornamentation in Oxford, St John’s College, MS 61, Muriel Araujo Lima
  • #s719 – Medieval Publishing
    • Database of Literary Dedications and Commissions: Problems and Prospects, Lauri Leinonen
  • #s740 – Imperial Memory Then and Now, II: The Aftermath of Imperial Landscapes
    • Macedonian Memories: How to Expand Tabula Imperii Byzantini 11 in a Digital Age?, Veronika Polloczek
    • Emperor Theoderic?: Imperial Policy of the King of the Goths, David Schmid
    • Frontier, Contact Zone, or No Man’s Land?: The Morava-Thaya Region from the Early to the High Middle Ages, Stefan Eichert
    • A New Project on Galician Medieval Heritage: Planning the Paths for Cultural Outreach, Javier Castiñeiras López
  • #s753 – Manus-On Manuscripts, III: Digital Platforms as Pedagogical and Research Tools – A Workshop
    • Abigail G. Robertson

• 16:30-18:00

  • #s804 – Reframing the Legal and Historical Past in Late Medieval Scotland
    • Regiam Maiestatem: The Manuscript Tradition of Scotland’s Earliest Legal Treatise, John Reuben Davies
  • #s840 – Imperial Memory Then and Now, III: Empire, Geography, and Digital Humanities
    • Representing Historical Landscapes: An Interactive Map-Based Solution, Markus Breier
    • From Past to Future: Interactive Geographic (Hi)Storytelling of Historical Landscapes, Alexander Pucher
    • OpenAtlas: How to Grow Software for Historians, Alexander Watzinger
    • A New Project on Galician Medieval Heritage, II: GIS as a Work Tool, Mariña Bermúdez Beloso

Wednesday, 4 July 2018

• 9:00-10:30

  • #s1003 – Moving Byzantium, I: Methods, Tools, and Concepts across Disciplines
    • Mapping Byzantine Mobility: Digital Tools and Analytical Concepts, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
    • Digital Mobility: Byzantine Prosopography, Networks, and Space, Ekaterini Mitsiou
  • #s1038 – Collective Memory in Montpellier’s Petit Thalamus: Digital Humanities, Language, and the Mapping of the Past
    • Production documentaire, pouvoir consulaire et identité urbaine dans le Petit Thalamus, Gilda Caiti-Russo
    • Reconstructing Urban Cartography Using Geo-Annotations, Francesca Frontini
    • Mémoire civique et choix linguistiques, entre occitan and latin, Hervé Lieutard
    • Memory and Becoming in the Construction of the Lyrical Ego of the Trobairitz, Rosa Maria Medina Granda
  • #s1045 – At the Cutting Edge of Digital Memory: The Online Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland – Post-Conquest Carving at Your Fingertips, I
    • Architecture and Memory: The Re-Use of Romanesque Sculptural Fragments, Toby J. Huitson
    • Spot the Altar: Locating the Liturgy in the Romanesque Parish Church, James Alexander Cameron
    • Baptismal Fonts, I: Ornament as Monument – A Family of Elaborately Decorated Romanesque Fonts in Victorian Churches in Norfolk, Jill A. Franklin
  • #s1047 – Reputation, Emotion, and Remembering Death and Illness
    • Recording a Place of Emotions and Violence: Mapping the Coronial Deaths of Medieval Oxfordshire, Annie Blachly

• 11:15-12:45

  • #s1135 – Archival Memory: Institutions, Texts, and Shapes, II
    • An Imaginary Frailty?: Memory Discourses in Charters, 7th-13th Centuries, Nicolas Perreaux
  • #s1145 – At the Cutting Edge of Digital Memory: The Online Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland – Post-Conquest Carving at Your Fingertips, II
    • Baptismal Fonts, II: The Romanesque Coleby Font Group – A Design, Distribution, and Iconographic Analysis, Thomas E. Russo
    • For the Record: Putting the Romanesque Sculpture of Wales Online, David M. Robinson
    • Baptismal Fonts, III: Magnates in the Midlands, Susan Nettle
  • #s1147 – New Perspectives on Medieval Combat and Weaponry
    • Augmented Memory and the Visualisation of Single Combat, Michael Ovens
  • #s1149 – The Whole Is More than the Sum of Its Parts: Studying Medieval Legal Compilations
    • ‘Ein zusammengestoppeltes elendes Machwerk’: Some Views on Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 97 Weiss, Daniela Schulz
    • Tracing the Origins of Capitulary Collections: The Manuscript Evidence, Britta Mischke
  • #s1153 – Mining the Mother Lode: Making New Use of Regests and Registers
    • New Tools for Old Fools?: History and Digital Humanities – The State of Their Union, Gerhard Lubich
    • Transforming Registers into Entangled Entities: Why and How to Use Graphs in History, Andreas Kuczera
    • The Simple Art of Register and Regesta: A How-To Guide, Lisa Klocke

• 14:15-15:45

  • #s1249 – Public Medievalism and The Public Medievalist
  • #s1253 – Per Corpora: What Corpus for Medieval Studies?
    • A Reference Corpus for Medieval Latin: Chances and Challenges of a New Project, Tim Geelhaar
    • Le corpus idéal : une somme de tous les états de tous les textes – l’exemple de la Règle de saint Benoît, Renaud Alexandre
    • Velum: Visualisation, exploration, et liaison de resources innovantes pour le latin médiéval, Bruno Bon

• 16:30-18:00

  • #s1324 – Memoria and Metaphor
    • Memoria and Its Metaphors: A Corpus Study, Krzysztof Nowak

Thursday, 5 July 2018

• 9:00-10:30

  • #s1506 – The After-Lives of Medieval Manuscripts: New Digital Approaches
    • Mapping the Migrations of Medieval Manuscripts, Toby Burrows
    • Manuscript Histories and Provenance: New Digital Environments, Lynn Ransom
    • Historic Collections, Provenance, and Medieval Text Transmission, Hanno Wijsman
  • #s1509 – Editing Texts from Later Medieval England
    • 21st-Century Edition Design: The Wycliffite Bible in Print and Online, Daniel Sawyer
  • #s1527 – Early Saints in Modern Times
    • Remembering the Saints in a 21st-Century Database, Bryan Ward-Perkins
  • #s1543 – Bringing the Memory of the First Crusade Back to Life: A New Project to Edit the Siege d’Antioche
    • Putting the Siege d’Antioche Online: A Collaborative Approach, Stephen Powell

• 14:15-15:45

  • #s1722 – New Perspectives on the Study of Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts
    • A Case for Lasting Old Norwegian Influence in Northern Iceland, Patrick Aaron Farrugia
  • #s1738 – Mappings, III: (Re)contextualising Maps
    • Using GIS to Illustrate and Understand the Influence of St Æthelthryth of Ely, Ian Styler