Hosted by: SIMS and Kislak Center
In this talk I present a meta-analysis of VisColl, in particular its implementation software VCEditor, as a digital tool for studying medieval manuscripts and "visualising collations." Through interviewing manuscript professionals about their work with VCEditor, I have attempted to find out more about daily research practices in digital environments, how this affects the way that they look at their research objects and the conclusions they draw from them. This offers a reflection on what our reliance on digital methods means for the study and our understanding of these ancient books. The research presented in this talk was conducted during my time as SIMS fellow in April 2024.
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series presents regularly scheduled lectures related to the study of premodern manuscript books and global manuscript culture.
A 2023-2024 SIMS Visiting Research Fellow, Suzette van Haaren is a postdoctoral researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where she is working on the"Virtual Middle Ages" sub-project within the Sonderforschungsbereich 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten. She received her PhD from the University of Groningen and University of St Andrews in 2022. Her research focuses on medieval studies and digital media studies and asks what it means to digitize medieval objects.
