Digital Medievalist (digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com) is an international, interest-based virtual research community with a broad thematic focus that brings together academics and social scientists of varying status and promotes ways to jointly expand the scope of the individual disciplines under the umbrella of “medieval studies”. During the…[Read more]

My project will be an interactive web-based visual representation of medieval communication networks using petitionary texts. I am currently researching methods to reposition these 13th century petitions as a form of communication while viewing them as an early form of social media. Typically these petitions were either grievances or requests made…[Read more]

TEI data model for petitionary texts in French or Latin for use as a critical or diplomatic edition with translation. This model specifically uses datasets found in the British National Archives (Special Collections 8) for creating a collection of samples as the basis of a prosopographical study on communication networks. (Corrections made)

Transcription and TEI markup of the abbreviated Polychronicon found at the the beginning of Cleveland Public Library MS W q091.92 C468.

TEI data model for petitionary texts in French or Latin for use as a critical or diplomatic edition with translation. This model specifically uses datasets found in the British National Archives (Special Collections 8) for creating a collection of samples as the basis of a prosopographical study on communication networks.

Studies that apply Social Network Analysis (SNA) to historical documents and literary texts are becoming more reflective of the innovations and developments in digital medieval studies. Historical SNA studies conducted by Hammond (2016) looks at family trees in medieval Scotland to create a network. Similarly, Geggel (2018), builds a…[Read more]