Margins and Forgotten Places

In 2020, a group of doctoral students decided to submit an interdisciplinary proposal for the organisation of the first doctoral conference of the newly founded United Doctoral School of the University of Verona. Despite the outbreak and long-term, socio-economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic – which put academic activities under a severe strain – the conference proposal was warmly welcomed and promoted by the School as an opportunity for dialogue that could transcend disciplinary boundaries, and as encouragement to continue the too often underappreciated but significant work of scientific research at the margins and on the margins . It was from the concept of margins – seen as limit, as an opportunity, as a meeting place for contact and cross-fertilisation between definitions, traditional perspectives, societies, cultures – that the international conference Margins and Forgotten Places was developed. Our main imperative since the conception of this work was the application of multifaceted expressions of research innovation to socially relevant challenges of the present age. For this purpose we brought the commitment to collective well-being to the forefront of every discipline’s attention, and we allocated a full day to delve into the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined in the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda. Together with outstanding keynote speakers, more than sixty speakers presented their contributions, which are still available online on our YouTube channel, and which are partially published in this volume. In an increasingly alienating and highly specialised academic world, we, the Organising Committee, wish to advocate the choral value of scientific research and advise as many colleagues as possible to promote interdisciplinary initiatives that deepen the little, the small and the useless. Only by actively listening what is different, indeed, can we truly appreciate what we already know, thus using our positive attitude towards learning and researching knowledge beyond borders to imagine and shape a different future

Digital Edition of Codex Runicus (AM 28 8vo)

The digital edition represents the output of my doctoral thesis "An edition and an analysis of Codex Runicus, AM 28 8vo (Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen)". The edition is available in the main catalogue of Menota: https://clarino.uib.no/menota/catalogue. Click on Codex Runicus under "MS or Work Title"

Codex Runicus (AM 28 8vo): A pilot project for encoding a runic manuscript

The topic of this paper is to show the process of the encoding of fol. 25v of Codex Runicus, AM 28 8vo. More specifically, this manuscript has been chosen as a pilot project since it has been written entirely in runes and it is thus eminently suited for testing the XML encoding of a runic manuscript. This has to the best of my knowledge not been done before. To this aim I used the Oxygen XML Editor to produce the encoding of the text in compliance with the Menota (Medieval Nordic Text Archive) Guidelines of Handbook v. 3.0, a detailed manual of how to encode medieval manuscripts in XML, and the last version P5 of the TEI standard. The paper aims at presenting the Codex Runicus and its runes, and then showing the process of encoding the runes, the punctuation marks and of the linguistic analysis (lexical and grammatical) of the selected text. This pilot project is the basis of my current PhD research project, which aims at encoding the whole manuscript on the basis of the procedure shown in this paper.Questo articolo si propone di presentare il processo di codifica del fol. 25v del Codex Runicus, AM 28 8vo. Più in particolare, è stato scelto questo specifico manoscritto in quanto interamente scritto in rune, aspetto fondamentale per poter testare la codifica XML di un manoscritto runico fino ad ora non ancora effettuata. A tal fine ho utilizzato l’editor XML Oxygen per creare il file XML conforme alla versione delle linee guida di Menota (Medieval Nordic Text Archive), Menota Guidelines v. 3.0, un manuale dettagliato sulla codifica XML per manoscritti medievali, e all’ultima versione P5 dello standard TEI. L’articolo infatti inizia con una breve presentazione del Codex Runicus e del particolare tipo di rune utilizzate, prosegue con il metodo di codifica delle rune e dei segni di punteggiatura e conclude con un’analisi linguistica (lessicale e morfologica) del testo in esame. Questo progetto pilota costituisce a sua volta il punto di partenza del mio attuale progetto di dottorato: quest’ultimo ha, infatti, l’obiettivo di codificare l’intero manoscritto seguendo il metodo qui descritto e testato

The Digital Edition of SKB A 120 in the Menota Archive

This paper aims at presenting the editing process of Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, SKB A 120, a prose fragment written entirely in medieval runes and transmitting the Virgin Mary’s complaint, with a focus on the editorial criteria. More specifically, the encoding and the annotation procedures, and the visualisation of the digital edition in Menota (Medieval Nordic Text Archive) Public Catalogue will be outlined. The fragment has been encoded in compliance with TEI-XML standards as specified and supplemented in the Menota guidelines described in the Menota handbook v. 3.0. The linguistic annotation (@lemma for the lexical form and @me:msa for the morphological analysis) of each word is also included. The digital edition provides the first complete runic text fully lemmatized, searchable, and encoded on both facsimile and diplomatic levels

Book Conservation and Digitization. The challenges of dialogue and collaboration, a cura di Alberto Campagnolo, Leeds, Arch Humanities Press, 2020, pp. 304.

Il volume \ue8 una raccolta di tredici articoli e una postfazione suddivisi in tre sezioni: "Books as objective ad their digitization", "Conservation and digitization in practice" e "Conservators and digitization experts in dialogue". Il tema principale che unisce i numerosi contributi \ue8 il 'libro' intesto come oggetto fisico e costruito da una variet\ue0 di elementi (copertina, tipologie di legatura, di materiale, e cos\uec via). In questo contesto, "digitization" fa riferimento non solo alla migrazione dei contenuti dai vecchi media di massa a quelli pi\uf9 recenti con la sola alterazione del formato, ma anche alla trasposizione della materialit\ue0

Codex Runicus (AM 28 8vo): A pilot project for encoding a runic manuscript

The topic of this paper is to show the process of the encoding of fol. 25v of Codex Runicus, AM 28 8vo. More specifically, this manuscript has been chosen as a pilot project since it has been written entirely in runes and it is thus eminently suited for testing the XML encoding of a runic manuscript. This has to the best of my knowledge not been done before. To this aim I used the Oxygen XML Editor to produce the encoding of the text in compliance with the Menota (Medieval Nordic Text Archive) Guidelines of Handbook v. 3.0, a detailed manual of how to encode medieval manuscripts in XML, and the last version P5 of the TEI standard. The paper aims at presenting the Codex Runicus and its runes, and then showing the process of encoding the runes, the punctuation marks and of the linguistic analysis (lexical and grammatical) of the selected text. This pilot project is the basis of my current PhD research project, which aims at encoding the whole manuscript on the basis of the procedure shown in this paper

Le Lingue nordiche nel medioevo, 1. Testi, a cura di Odd Einar Haugen, coautori Massimiliano Bampi, Marina Buzzoni, Odd Einar Haugen, Andrea Meregalli e Luca Panieri, Oslo, Novus Press, 2018.

Il primo volume de "Le lingue nordiche nel medioevo, 1. Testi" offre estratti di testi nordici tipici del periodo 1200-1500. Gli autori hanno selezionato quattro testi per ciascuna delle lingue in oggetto (antico danese, antico svedese, antico norvegese, antico islandese e antico gutnico), accompagnati da una breve introduzione, una traduzione a fronte in italiano e un'ampia selezione di note testuali. Viene presentato anche il manoscritto da cui sono stati tratti i testi sotto forma di facsimile fotografico. L'introduzione generale mira a mettere in prospettiva lo sviluppo linguistico delle lingue nordiche, così come i generi testuali e i manoscritti stessi

An edition and an analysis of Codex Runicus, AM 28 8vo (Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Copenhagen)

AM 28 8vo, ca. 1300, is one of the most famous medieval Danish manuscripts and, at the same time, also one of the most unusual: it is entirely written in medieval runes. It has interested scholars and librarians over the centuries, right up to the digital turn. The aim of the thesis has been to produce a digital edition of the entire AM 28 8vo, supplied with a full lemmatisation of its texts based on the lexical entries provided by Gammeldansk Ordbog. This is the first complete edition of a runic text of considerable length using a tailored runic font (UNI Runes font) for a close transcription in runes of the texts. This thesis is developed in two volumes: the methodological background provided in the first volume serves as an introduction to the second volume. Specifically, in the first one, the manuscript is presented in relation to the context of production of the so-called runica manuscripta, and it aims to emphasise the need to create a specific subcategory for manuscripts such as AM 28 8vo. Subsequently, a detailed codicological and palaeographical analysis – traditional and with innovative methods – is included and was made possible by research on the field. Both kind of analyses highlighted and supported the hypothesis of the involvement of three scribal hands in the writing of AM 28 8vo, but also shed light on the revision processes the texts underwent, looking, for instance, at the most frequent corrections. At the end of the first volume, the criteria on which my digital Menotic edition is based, the levels of textual representation (facsimile, rune-by-rune, and diplomatic, rune-by-Latin letter) and its structure are described. At the time of writing, the digital edition is available in the Menota test archive at , but it will be moved to the Menota main archive at . The second volume contains the edition itself; the facsimile and diplomatic levels and high-definition images for each folio can be consulted at the same time. To conclude, the output of this thesis presents AM 28 8vo as it has never seen before; the interoperable digital edition includes information that is missing in the previous editions, such as runic characters and lemmatisation. Furthermore, this edition meets the FAIR principles, which guide projects within the digital humanities. Thanks to the CC BY SA 4.0 license, the Menotic XML file of the encoding is freely available for consultation, download, reusing in other contexts, and eventually continuing the work, such as updating the metadata or adding new levels of textual representation

Margins and forgotten places.

In 2020, a group of doctoral students decided to submit an interdisciplinary proposal for the organisation of the first doctoral conference of the newly founded United Doctoral School of the University of Verona. Despite the outbreak and long-term, socio-economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic – which put academic activities under a severe strain – the conference proposal was warmly welcomed and promoted by the School as an opportunity for dialogue that could transcend disciplinary boundaries, and as and encouragement to continue the too often underappreciated but significant work of scientific research at the margins and on the margins. It was from the concept of margins – seen as limit, as an opportunity, as a meeting place for contact and cross-fertilisation between definitions, traditional perspectives, societies, cultures – that the international conference Margins and Forgotten Places was developed. Our main imperative since the conception of this work was the application of multifaceted expressions of research innovation to socially relevant challenges of the present age. For this reason, we drew the attention of every discipline to the commitment to collective well-being, and dedicated an entire day of reflection on the 17 SDGs of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Together with outstanding keynote speakers, more than sixty speakers presented their contributions, which are still available online on our YouTube channel, and which are partially published in this volume. In an increasingly alienating and highly specialised academic world, we, the Organising Committee, wish to advocate the choral value of scientific research and advise as many colleagues as possible to promote interdisciplinary initiatives that deepen the little, the small and the useless. Only by actively listening what is different, indeed, can we truly appreciate what we already know, thus using our positive attitude towards learning and researching knowledge beyond borders to imagine and shape a different future