Blurred boundaries of Medieval texts: Digital editing and interpreting












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            * Blurred boundaries of Medieval texts: Digital editing and interpreting
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            The Middle Ages are not the grey intermediary between the classical Antiquity and the Rena

            they seem to be. This project aims to connect medievalists of various disciplines (medieva
            individual vernacular studies, history, art history, archeology, musicology and others) to
            nuanced picture of medieval written culture in the Czech lands in European context. Specia

            is placed on medieval literature in its physical aspects: the manuscript transmission, whi
            manifestations and implications surprisingly close to textual transmission in the contempo
            age. This is true especially as far as the notions of authorship, text and language are co

            escape easy definitions, their boundaries are blurred. The medieval material challenges ou
            and calls for revision. At the heart of the project there is a course in digital editing o

            organized jointly with the University of Siena, Lyon, Queen Mary in London and Klosterneub
            library, taking place within program Erasmus+ Key Action 2, Strategic Partnership (2014-20
            blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk/demm).





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            * Key collaborators
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            • Hana Pátková [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1025738383927710/?lang=en"]
            • Jan Čermák [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1709095240087062/?lang=en"]
            • Michal Dragoun [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1267306172983090/?lang=en"]

            • Iva Adámková [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1254327965802343/?lang=en"]
            • Martin Bažil [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1004308237128040/?lang=en"]
            • Jiří Starý [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1718178194998290/?lang=en"]

            • David Eben [ URL "http://is.cuni.cz/webapps/whois2/osoba/1874318142110430/?lang=en"]




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            * Selected outputs

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            • Jan Klápště, The Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
            • Martin Nejedlý, Jaroslav Svátek, Marylin Nicoud, edd., Histoires de Boh?me (= Médiévales

            • Lucie Doležalová, Obscurity and Memory in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: The Case of 
              Biblie’. Medium Aevum Quotidianum, Sonderband 29. Krems: Institut für Realienkunde des M
              der frühen Neuzeit, 2012.