Delphine Demelas

The Digital Medieval Manuscript "The Digital Medieval Manuscript" published on 04 Sep 2025 by Brill.

📣📚New publication: S. van Haaren, The Digital Medieval Manuscript - Material Approaches to Digital Codicology, Brill (2025)

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The IHR Black British History seminar series is now on BlueSky!

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🔔 Do not forget that today is the deadline. And thank you for all the wonderful proposals already submitted!
#IMC2026

Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences

I'm incredibly honored and excited to have been invited by Schmidt Sciences to attend the Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) Convening in Paris next week!
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⏰ You still have one week to send us your proposals!

🚨Job Klaxon🚨

Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods

📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭)
📆Deadline: 19 October 2025
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We are looking forward to receiving your contributions!

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#Manuscripts

A dark blue and black flyer with a digital-themed background featuring a digitized medieval manuscript. The title in large, white font reads: "Digital Medievalist Sponsored Sessions." Below this, the text indicates the event is the International Medieval Congress, 06-09 July 2026, Leeds, (UK). Two session themes are listed in white font: On the left: "Large Language Models and Medieval Texts" with the co-sponsor listed as "Southampton Digital Humanities, University of Southampton." On the right: "Digital Methods and Materiality of Manuscripts" with the co-sponsor listed as "Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds." A central section has a large, underlined blue hyperlink that says "Access the full call for papers" and a QR code next to it. At the bottom, a white text box provides submission instructions: "Please send abstracts of 150 words by end of day 21 September 2025 to Delphine Demelas at D.Demelas@soton.ac.uk or N. Kıvılcım Yavuz at N.K.Yavuz@leeds.ac.uk. Please include your contact details and your preferred mode of participation (in-person or virtual) together with your abstract." The bottom of the flyer includes the website "https://digitalmedievalist.org" and the organization's logo.

📜Call for Papers: Digital Medievalist sponsored sessions International Medieval Congress 2026 (Leeds, UK).

We seek proposals on the following themes:
- 'Large Language Models and Medieval Texts'
- 'Digital Methods and Materiality of Manuscripts'

▶️Full call: tinyurl.com/f82tcrzk
📆21 Sept 2025

📣 CfP: The endless scroll - Digital approaches to Medieval Time, IMC 2026, Leeds UK

The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts invites contributions that explore how digital methods and tools can illuminate, represent, and reinterpret medieval temporalities.

📅 Deadline: 1/09/2025

This is your ONE week reminder that the deadline for #IMC2026 Paper Proposal is Sunday 31 August!😱 Click here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/ to submit a proposal, and click here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/pro... to read our handy proposal criteria guide.😊

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🎉 Election Results Are In! 🎉

We're thrilled to announce the new members of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board for the 2025-2029 term.

A huge thank you to all the members who voted this year!🗳️

A folio of a Spanish document from the 16th Century.

A folio of a Spanish document from the 16th Century.

A folio of a Spanish document from the 16th Century.

🏛️ Historic Homecoming 🏛️
Three historic documents from 1598 have been recently returned from the US to Paraguay's National Archives of Asuncion, and I'm thrilled to have played a crucial role in facilitating this repatriation. 📚

It’s a beautiful picture of a bird in Paraguay taken by Oscar Bordon. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=730002835838029&set=a.410445901127059

A photo of a Guarani dictionary from the 17th Century.

A folio of a Spanish document from the 17th Century.

El nombre "Urutau" según Montoya significa "ave nocturna" y también "gavilocho ave de rapiña".

The image is a flyer advertising a call for papers for a session at the IMC2026, Leeds with the following text: Call for Papers: Minimal Computing and the Middle Ages (Leeds International Medieval Congress 2026) Minimal computing is a loose set of ideas and methodologies in digital humanities research, broadly based around the idea of limitations in resources, whether financial, environmental, infrastructural, labour, or otherwise. As Risam and Gill (2022) put it, minimal computing advocates call for “using only the technologies that are necessary” to achieve a research aim. In this way, minimal computing intends to promote the accessibility of digital scholarship in a wide variety of contexts, counteracting conflation of digital humanities scholarship with expensive software licences, powerful computers or programming expertise (among other concepts). We invite papers that consider these issues as they relate to medieval studies. As the climate crisis worsens, the sustainability of high-performance computing and associated digital research methods have come under scrutiny. Moreover, the difficult funding situation in many countries and institutions poses further problems to the sustainability of digital medieval studies. Expensive equipment, software and computing capacity remains out of reach of many early career, contingent and independent scholars, particularly those without affiliations to well-funded research universities. Minimal computing can be a philosophical choice, but also a choice out of pragmatic necessity. If you would like to participate, please send a 150 word abstract, a short bio (no more than 40 words), institutional affiliation, contact details and preferred pronouns to Eddie Meehan at e.g.meehan@leeds.ac.uk and Jon Dell Isola at 02dellisola@cua.edu. Abstracts are due by 23:59 BST on Wednesday 10th September.

📜 CfP: Minimal Computing and the Middle Ages, IMC2026, Leeds (UK)

The session will explore the intersection of #minimalcomputing and #medieval studies for sustainable, accessible, and ethical approaches to #digital scholarship in a time of limited resources.

📅Deadline: 23:59 BST, 10/09/25

It’s a beautiful picture of a bird in Paraguay taken by Oscar Bordon. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=730002835838029&set=a.410445901127059

A photo of a Guarani dictionary from the 17th Century.

According to Montoya, the name ‘Urutau’ means ‘night bird’ and also ‘hawk bird of prey.’ Cadogan records that the Urutau (Nyctibius griseus cornutus) is, in the mythical texts of the Tavyterã and Chiripa, the sister of the Sun and Moon Twins.

Call for paper for the round table 'Big data and medieval manuscripts' for the IMC2026 in Leeds. an image at the top represent a library where data symbolized as numbers flow from open books.

📣 CfP: Big Data and medieval manuscripts, IMC2026, Leeds (UK)

This session brings together scholars using #BigData, #AI, and machine learning to advance the study of #medieval manuscripts through methods as quantitative codicology and paleography.

📆 Deadline for abstract: 23:59 BST, 29/05/2025

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A map of the Franciscan mission of Yuty.

Francisco Uruta estaba probablemente en Asunción actuando como yanacona, un indígena trabajador forzado en la casa de su encomendero.

It’s a beautiful picture of a bird in Paraguay taken by Oscar Bordon. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3651242554942657&set=a.478865272180417

Francisco Uruta was probably in Asunción working as a yanacona, an indigenous servant forced to work in the house of his encomendero.

A folio of a Spanish document from the 17th Century.

It’s a beautiful picture of a bird in Paraguay taken by Oscar Bordon. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=730002835838029&set=a.410445901127059

El padrón de 1685 registra a "Don Francisco Uruta ausente en la ciudad" y "Cristóbal Uruta ausente con su mujer".

A photo of a Guarani dictionary from the 17th Century.

A folio of a Spanish document from the 17th Century.

The 1685 census records "Don Francisco Uruta absent in the city" and "Cristobal Uruta absent with his wife." Don Francisco had the colonial title "Don" before his baptismal name, revealing that the Spaniards considered him a Guarani leader.

A folio of a Spanish document from the 17th Century.

It’s a picture of the church of Yuty, Paraguay.

Uruta y Urutau son nombres guaraníes que se encuentran en los documentos coloniales del siglo XVII, particularmente en el registro de la población de San Francisco de Yuty, correspondiente al año 1685.

A folio of a Spanish document from the 17th Century.

It’s a picture of the church of Yuty, Paraguay.

Uruta and Urutau are Guarani names found in 17th-century colonial documents, particularly in the population register of San Francisco de Yuty for the year 1685.

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A photo of a Guarani dictionary from the 17th Century.

The name "Aguara", according to Montoya, means "fox," and Cadogan records that the Mbyá associate it with the jaguar, while for the Pai Tavyterã, it represents one of the "terrestrial souls" (angüé) that transmigrates.

A photo of a giant fox called Aguara Guazu in Argentina. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aguara1.jpg

A photo of a Guarani dictionary from the 17th Century.

El nombre "Aguara" según Montoya significa "zorro", y Cadogán registra que los Mbyá lo asocian con el jaguar, mientras que para los Pai Tavyterã representa una de las "almas telúricas" (angüé) que transmigra.

A folio of a Spanish document from the 17th Century.

A folio of a Spanish document from the 17th Century.

When the resisters shouted Aguara Guazu's name, this cacique disarmed himself and negotiated with them, convincing them to retreat without eliminating the priest.

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Over 3 years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has conserved, catalogued and digitised 190 manuscripts, containing 7000+ pages of medieval medical recipes. These recipes are now freely available on Cambridge Digital Library: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

A folio of a Spanish document from the 17th Century.

A folio of a Spanish document from the 17th Century.

Cuando los resistentes gritaron el nombre de Aguara Guazu, este cacique se desarmó y negoció con ellos, convenciéndolos de retirarse sin lograr eliminar al sacerdote.

A photo of a Guarani dictionary from the 17th Century.

A photo of a giant fox called Aguara Guazu in Argentina. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aguara1.jpg

On that day in 1629, approximately 300 Guarani warriors arrived to attack the mission and confront Father Pedro Romero.