Project

Interconnected Texts. A graph-based computational approach to Byzantine paratexts as nodes between textual transmission and cultural and linguistic developments

Code

01G02821

Duration

01 January 2021 → 31 December 2025

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor-spokesperson

Kristoffel Demoen

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Natural language processing
- Database systems and architectures
Humanities and the arts
- Medieval history
- Greek language
- Philology

Keywords

Digital Humanities Byzantine cultural history Greek linguistics graph databases language technology Linguistics Communication History Literary studies

Project description

This project aims to study patterns in a corpus of paratexts from Byzantine manuscripts, to elucidate the interconnectedness of material book production, motivations for textual transmission, and linguistic developments. This will aid, and be aided by, the development of new digital tools, equipped to detect variations and patterns in a fluid, fragmented, and heavily entangled textual corpus.