9 research outputs found
iHSP Judges: Comestor\u27s Cartography
Our project is the continued transcription, translation and comparative analysis of the book of Judges in Peter Comestorâs Historia Scholastica, as part of the ongoing Historia Scholastica Project. We are working off of the foundation left behind by the prior Latin cohort of 2014-2016, and to date have translated an additional 307 lines. Our main research effort was geared toward testing the accuracy of the geographic data in the Historia Scholastica through scholarship review. These efforts will allow future scholars to understand Comestorâs view of the Medieval world.
As a part of our geographic research, we have created an interactive digital map, with all locations marked and their textual references noted. This map is included in the HSP Judges eBook, which contains the current transcription and translation accompanied by our comparative notes on the variations between the Patrelogia Latina 198 and Lugdensis copies of the Historia Scholastica.
This project incorporated online collaboration methods, which were tested over the summer of 2017. This collaboration was accomplished through the voice-chat system Discord
HSP Judges: Culture and History in Comestor\u27s Historia Iudicum
As participants within the Historia Scholastica Project, ongoing since August 2011, our project joins with the larger goal of making a transcription and English translation of Boise State Universityâs copy of Peter Comestorâs Historia Scholastica accessible to a general English-speaking audience. Throughout the 2015-2016 academic year, we will have translated 206 lines of the âJudgesâ section. The goal of this translation is to preserve the fundamental ideas that Comestor conveyed through his vocabulary and grammar in our English translation while making it presentable to a contemporary English audience.
Our cohort of Latin students has begun the process of transcription, textual comparison, and translation of the book of Judges, referring to Adriano Cappelliâs The Elements of Abbreviation in Medieval Latin Paleography for a transcription reference and comparing our copy with other extant texts, the Patrologia Latinae 198 and the 1543 Lugduni transcription. We have begun to identify Comestorâs sources and influences, such as Jerome and Josephus, exercising comparisons between the authors. The textual comparisons made with our research will set the stage for further analysis of the BSU manuscript within manuscript lineages of Comestorâs crucial medieval work
HSP Judges: A Template for Community Collaboration
The Fall 2016 - Spring 2017 Historia Scholastica Judges group, a team dedicated to the translation of a Medieval Latin document, explored electronic venues to make the project bridge communities across physical space through an online collaboration tool. We evaluated commonly-available platforms to select a tool with sufficient potential to facilitate future online collaborative efforts with community partners. Throughout the Spring 2017 semester, we collaborated via the platform to judge its performance.
We agreed on the continued use of Google related applications, including Google Docs and Hangout. In the process, we encountered multiple issues: exigent circumstances, including snow days, classmates overseas, and former classmates likely not using their university E-mails caused many delays in the class schedule and difficulty in communication. Communication between Historia Scholastica Project (HSP) team members was frequently unclear and hangouts were difficult to conduct, with not everyone online simultaneously.
The implementation of Google as a collaborative tool within HSP is on-going, initiated on a two-month trial. Results will be evaluated on criteria of communication and scheduling, with a bearing on future HSP collaborations
Prosodic Encoding of Sexuality in the Speech Patterns of Gay and Straight Men
Several studies have been designed to analyze the differences between gay and straight speech in males. Among them, Gaudio (1994) reported little difference in fluctuation in pitch and pitch range between the two populations from read text. This led him to conclude that sexuality could either be encoded by other features in their speech (i.e. /s/-fronting or âgay lispâ), or that differences in pitch could only appear in more naturally occurring speech. This poster reports on a sociophonetic study that builds on Gaudio (1994), addressing the latter concern by analyzing speech from different experimental tasks: each participant read aloud from a script, told a story from a picture book with no words, and recalled something funny that had happened to them recently. In a pilot study, two participants (one gay, one straight) were recorded performing each of the tasks in a sound-attenuated booth using a digital recorder. Praat phonetic analysis software was used to measure the pitch (fundamental frequency; F0), fluctuations in F0, and F0 range in each phrase produced by the participants. A preliminary analysis of the results supports Gaudioâs conclusions, providing further evidence that pitch fluctuation and pitch range are not indicative of male sexual identity