Project

New NaSo. Future-proofing, updating and expanding the digital gateway to the narrative sources of the medieval and early modern Low Countries

Code
bof/bas/2025/080
Duration
01 December 2025 → 30 November 2027
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Archival, repository and related sciences
    • Historiography
    • Early modern history
    • Medieval history
    • Early modern literature
    • Medieval literature
    • Literary history
Keywords
narrative sources database Low Countries digital inventory Early Modern Period heuristics Middle Ages
 
Project description

Narrative Sources is an internationally acclaimed open-access repertory of narrative sources from the medieval Low Countries, developed at Ghent University. The New NaSo project ensures the long-term sustainability of this indispensable resource by upgrading its technology, updating its content, and expanding its scope across genres and historical periods.

The project delivers a much-needed upgrade of software and architecture, introduces new features for textual and geospatial analysis and IIIF integration, enhances search functionality, and implements a state-of-the-art content management system. The database will also benefit from a substantial update of its existing content and the large-scale integration of literary narratives and early modern sources, enabling it to address new research questions and engage a broader user base.

In doing so, Narrative Sources will continue to serve in the decades ahead as a vital heuristic tool and a dynamic incubator for new lines of research.