ERC Advanced Grant · 2020
From Digital to Distant Diplomatics
From Digital to Distant Diplomatics (DiDip) will bring modern computational methods to the transregional study of late medieval charters. It will answer questions about the spread and development of pan-European documentary practices and documentary culture in the later medieval period (c. 1300-1500). The project's novelty lies in 1. the scale of the endeavour, building upon a database of over half a million digitized charters from medieval and early modern Europe (the PI's Monasterium.net) and expanding it both numerically and qualitatively and 2. the application of cutting-edge ‘distant’ macroanalysis practices (Jockers 2013) to a Europe-wide dataset, producing findings that go beyond the…
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