Understanding Scotland’s medieval cartularies

The medieval cartulary is well known as a major source for documents. This article takes Scotland as a case study for examining how the understanding of medieval cartularies has been shaped by those works extensively used by researchers to access cartularies and their texts – in a Scottish context this is principally the antiquarian publications and modern catalogues. Both pose their own problems for scholars seeking to understand the medieval cartulary. After an in-depth examination of these issues, a radical solution is offered which shifts the attention onto the manuscripts themselves. Such an approach reveals those extant cartularies to be fundamentally varied, and not an exclusive ‘category’ as such. This in turn allows historians to appreciate the dynamic nature of cartularies as sources for documents, and to eschew the deeply embedded tendency to see the cartulary simply as a copy of a medieval archive

Facing the challenge of digital sustainability as humanities researchers

Humanities researchers are increasingly united in their concerns about the long-term sustainability of digital resources. Much of our work is now reliant upon the use of resources such as databases, online research tools and digital editions. Libraries and archives are undertaking programmes of ‘mass digitisation’, making our primary sources available to view as digital images on the web. This article presents a view of the current landscape as well as thoughts for the future of digital research for scholars in the humanities. It considers four aspects of sus- tainability (technological, financial, environmental and ‘human’), and offers a new working definition for digital sustainability in this context. This centres on sustainability not just as a technical concern but as a multifaceted activity within which humanities researchers can play a crucial role

Recognising cartulary studies thirty years after Les cartularies = Una valoración de los estudios sobre cartularios treinta años después de Les cartularies

This article begins by considering the achievement of the Les cartulaires volume of essays (1993), particularly in launching a field of inquiry. It reflects on how this field has developed since the early 1990s, especially what has characterised the research and the kinds of themes and questions historians have explored. It situates the latest work on cartularies within the broader development of the field, such as long established interests in cartulary function, typologies, codicology and scribes, and the influences of editorial practices, as well as emerging ideas about reading cartularies. The article highlights how varied and multi-dimensional all of this work has been, and addresses some questions that arise from this. As a result, it offers fresh ways to understand and conceptualise the field

Medieval cartulary manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland

This article surveys the cartularies held by the National Library of Scotland, considering both their history as a collection and their nature as individual manuscripts. Like many kinds of medieval manuscript, cartularies could take a diverse range of forms. Each one has its own particular characteristics, meaning that as a ‘corpus’ they are difficult to describe or define. In attempting to understand medieval cartulary manuscripts, a tension emerges between the singular term ‘cartulary’ and the variety exhibited by the manuscripts themselves. This uneasy contrast can, however, be reconciled once the cartulary is embraced as a modern scholarly concept rather than a medieval ‘category’

The Models of Authority Project: Extending the DigiPal Framework for Script and Decoration

The DigiPal project for palaeography has featured in previous DH conferences. It includes a generalised framework for the description and analysis of handwriting, initially applied to Old English of the eleventh century but subsequently extended to Latin, Hebrew, and decoration; it incorporates a novel model for describing handwriting; and a recent addition allows the embedding of linked palaeographical images into prose description. The purpose of this poster is to present new developments which form part of two further major grants, one of which is the Models of Authority project. Specifically, the focus here is on the incorporation of textual content into the model for handwriting

Fenologia de Syagrus coronata (Arecaceae) e o impacto do fogo na sobrevivência e reprodução do licuri

Three years of reproductive phenological data (1983–1986) were analyzed for 331 licuri palms (Syagrus coronata) in a natural population in Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil. Using a one-year subset of the data, we also compared the phenologies of 83 individuals burned by wildfires and 248 unburned individuals to examine the impact of fire on S. coronata. Burned specimens showed slightly delayed fruiting compared to non-burned specimens, but a randomization test showed no significant difference between the two groups, suggesting that licuri palms are capable of surviving wildfires with almost no interruption to their phenological cycles.Foram analisados três anos (1983–1986) de dados de fenología reprodutiva para 331 palmeiras de licuri (Syagrus coronata) numa população natural em Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brasil. Usando um subconjunto dos dados de um ano dessas populações, foi comparada a fenologia de 83 indivíduos que foram queimados com a de 248 indivíduos que não foram queimados a fim de avaliar o impacto dos incêndios na fenologia de S. coronata. Indivíduos que foram queimados apresentaram uma frutificação ligeiramente tardia em comparação aos indivíduos que não foram queimados, mas uma avaliação randomizada revelou que não há diferença significativa entre os dois grupos, sugerindo que os licuris sejam capazes de sobreviver a incêndios florestais quase sem interrupção de seus ciclos fenológicos

Imported ornaments of a Late Antiquity community in Christian Ethiopia

Several thousand glass beads excavated in the Maryam Anza (Tigray, Ethiopia) cemetery over three seasons between 2014 and 2016 tell the story of the direct or indirect long-distance contacts of the people buried there. By combining typological and quantitative studies of drawn glass beads, this paper provides new bead evidence on the subject of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade in Late Antiquity. The assemblage is dominated by tiny monochrome glass beads of mid-fourth/fifth-century AD date that were brought as ships’ cargo from South Asia through Arabian ports, reaching Northeast Africa at a time of intensive Indian Ocean trade. Close proximity to the Red Sea port at Adulis (in modern Eritrea) also allowed the transport of other overseas bead imports produced in Egypt or the East Mediterranean region. Comparative percentage analysis makes Aksum and the Maryam Anza community one of the major accumulators of India/Sri Lankan beads in Northeast Africa

BFORE: The B-mode Foreground Experiment

The B-mode Foreground Experiment (BFORE) is a proposed NASA balloon project designed to make optimal use of the sub-orbital platform by concentrating on three dust foreground bands (270, 350, and 600 GHz) that complement ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) programs. BFORE will survey ~1/4 of the sky with 1.7 - 3.7 arcminute resolution, enabling precise characterization of the Galactic dust that now limits constraints on inflation from CMB B-mode polarization measurements. In addition, BFORE's combination of frequency coverage, large survey area, and angular resolution enables science far beyond the critical goal of measuring foregrounds. BFORE will constrain the velocities of thousands of galaxy clusters, provide a new window on the cosmic infrared background, and probe magnetic fields in the interstellar medium. We review the BFORE science case, timeline, and instrument design, which is based on a compact off-axis telescope coupled to >10,000 superconducting detectors.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, conference proceedings published in Journal of Low Temperature Physic

The Grizzly, February 6, 1996

Hinojosa Smith\u27s Sense of Place • Will Keim Speaks to Greeks • Du Pont: All the Facts • Political Gibberish • Selling the American Dream • Sculptures on Display at Berman Museum • Michael Cochrane Quartet to Perform • The Piano Man Plays Trenton State College • Bears Set Scoring Record • Men and Women\u27s Teams Endure Tough Week • The Ursinus Mascot: Part 2 • Men\u27s Hoop Team Defeats Muhlenberg 80-71 • Bears Defeat Haverford, Trounce Delaware Valleyhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1373/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, January 30, 1996

The Ruby is Dead • Research Conference Originates at Ursinus • The Soul of the Matter • Ursinus Recital Featured Two Organists • The Ursinus Blackout • Heefner Organ Recital Series Kicks Off • The Bear Facts About the Ursinus Mascot: Part 1 • Study Abroad: More Than Just an Academic Experience • Women\u27s Hoops Struggling • Bears In Thick of Playoff Race • Anecdotes of a Wagon Lost in Denver • Bears Nationally Ranked • Bears Look Tough to Beat as Centennial Tourney Hostshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1372/thumbnail.jp