News How Has Digital Access Transformed the Study of Medieval Manuscripts?

  • Thread starter Thread starter wolram
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Net
AI Thread Summary
The discussion highlights a significant online resource featuring thousands of original medieval texts, primarily in medieval Latin, that have been digitized and made accessible. Users note the challenge of reading these texts due to the language and script but acknowledge the site's value as a remarkable repository of historical documents. Additionally, the conversation mentions Migne's extensive Patrologia, which compiles writings from Western churchmen up to around 1200, and is also available online, further enhancing the resource's importance for researchers and enthusiasts of medieval literature.
wolram
Gold Member
Dearly Missed
Messages
4,410
Reaction score
555
Physics news on Phys.org
Well, "readable" if you can read the language (midieval Latin, mostly) and read the script! But yes, it is a remarkable resource.
 
Interesting site. I'm going to bookmark it,thanks.
 
Well, Migne's immense Patrologia, containing EVERYTHING written by the Western churchmen up to 1200 or so, has long been accessible on the net.
 
Just ONCE, I wanted to see a post titled Status Update that was not a blatant, annoying spam post by a new member. So here it is. Today was a good day here in Northern Wisconsin. Fall colors are here, no mosquitos, no deer flies, and mild temperature, so my morning run was unusually nice. Only two meetings today, and both went well. The deer that was road killed just down the road two weeks ago is now fully decomposed, so no more smell. Somebody has a spike buck skull for their...
Thread 'RIP George F. Smoot III (1945-2025)'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smoot https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/george-smoot-iii https://apc.u-paris.fr/fr/memory-george-fitzgerald-smoot-iii https://elements.lbl.gov/news/honoring-the-legacy-of-george-smoot/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2006/smoot/facts/ https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200611/nobel.cfm https://inspirehep.net/authors/988263 Structure in the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer First-Year Maps (Astrophysical Journal...
Back
Top