Digital Humanities for Medieval Philosophical Sources
conf. dr. Mihai Maga
Babeș–Bolyai University, Cluj–Napoca
Master in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
2nd semester, 2024–2025
HME2415
Wednesday, 17:00–20:00, room 139, 1st floor, BBU Central Building; MS Teams: mjx9m3d
The course Digital Humanities for Medieval Philosophical Sources is addressed to masteral students in ancient and medieval philosophy and also to the students in related fields (medieval history, classical languages, pre-modern literature, library science, palaeography, codicology etc.) Following the graduation of this course, the students will be able to prepare digital editions of the texts conserved in medieval manuscripts. The main course on Digital Humanities is complemented by a Medieval Latin Palaeography module, so that the students will be able to decipher, describe, transcribe and edit critically the medieval manuscripts following the current TEI-P5 standards. Following this course, the students will be capable to use digital tools for production, analysis, representation, formatting and querying the digital editions in their future research.
Semestrial course outline
| # | Digital Humanities | Palaeography |
|---|---|---|
| Course presentation | Course presentation | |
| C.1 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | Introduction to Paleography |
| C.2 | Semantic encoding | Manuscripts and writing |
| C.3 | Critical editing | Abbreviation system |
| C.4 | Principles of TEI-XML | Uncial, semiuncial, carolingian minuscule |
| C.5 | Representation of manuscripts in TEI | Textual gothic minuscule |
| C.6 | Representation of textual variation in TEI | University gothic minuscule from 13th century |
| C.7 | Representation of source apparatus in TEI | Bastard gothic minuscule from 14th century |
| CA | Continuous assessment | |
| C.8 | Visualisation of digital editions | Notation of manuscript variants |
| C.9 | Integration and digital processing | Collation from multiple manuscript copies |
| C.10 | Artificial Intelligence | Critical apparatus |
| PA | Practical application | |
| Complete course | Complete course | |
| Tools
TEI P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P5/
| Tools
Adriano Cappelli, Dizionario di Abbreviature latine ed italiane PDF
Breviter Interactive Dataset of Medieval Abbreviations | |
Each course in presented as a schematic structure which contains definitions, classifications, examples, visual representations and illustrations. These materials are available in the following formats: presentation for projector, slideshow type; printable layout, handout type. The entire course is available in both English language, and in Romanian language. All these materials are in PDF format.
The course coordinator can be contacted at the address: mihai.maga@ubbcluj.ro