This volume of Classics@ aims to explore and analyse a methodological turn in ancient studies: the practice of presenting harvested data in ancient manuscripts within virtual research environments (VREs). The long and short contributions of this fascicle are selective examples of this move in research, and they have been collected… Read more
The Many Deaths of Mustaj Beg of Lika Mirsad Kunić Translated by Peter McMurray Introduction In his seminal text, “Studije o krajinskoj epici” (‘Studies on Epic Song of the Krajina’), [1] Alois Schmaus points out the importance of tales or stories (priče) in Bosniak epic… Read more
There Are No Oral Media?: Multisensory Perceptions of South Slavic Epic Poetry Peter McMurray Oral poetry sounds. In other words, it is also aural poetry. This claim serves as the foundation of this essay, and while it may not seem particularly revolutionary, such a notion has considerable potential not only… Read more
The PASSIM Project (Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages): Towards a Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Patristic Sermon Collections [1] Riccardo Macchioro Thousands of manuscripts witness to the huge circulation of Latin Patristic sermons throughout the Middle Ages, and it is hard to… Read more
Why Make a Digital Critical Edition of a Latin Source? The Histoire du Grand Comte Roger et de son frère Robert Guiscard by Gaufredus Malaterra in Context Marie Bisson and Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel The rise of digital humanities has contributed greatly to the study of ancient and medieval texts by rendering… Read more
Introduction: Ancient Manuscripts and Virtual Research Environments Claire Clivaz and Garrick V. Allen This volume of Classics@ aims to explore and analyse a methodological turn in ancient studies: the practice of presenting harvested data in ancient manuscripts within virtual research environments (VREs). What changes when research on ancient manuscripts occurs… Read more
The Nestle-Aland as Open Digital Edition: Already and Not Yet Gregory S. Paulson I. Introduction: The Digital Nestle-Aland Last year at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (San Diego, 2019) Claire Clivaz asked an interesting question during the Q&A portion after my paper on the history of… Read more
MARK16 as Virtual Research Environment: Challenges and Opportunities in New Testament Studies Claire Clivaz, Mina Monier, and Jonathan Barda DH+ & Core-IT, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Lausanne, CH) The first part of this article investigates the impact of the digital revolution on the landscape of the history of… Read more
Handling Big Manuscript Data Elpida Perdiki and Maria Konstantinidou This contribution describes a series of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) tests performed on medieval Greek manuscripts and run on Transkribus, a platform for collaboratively transcribing and retrieving historical documents. [1] Transkribus was chosen on the basis… Read more
Automatic Collation Tools and Virtual Research Environments Elisa Nury and Elena Spadini In this contribution we examine the history of automatic collation, which is the comparison of different copies of a work, to understand how software for this philological task has been (or has not been) integrated within Virtual Research… Read more
