It is commonly known that Chinese premodern authors preferred using a number of allusions originating from classics in their own works, which is certainly a way of text reuse. They sometimes quoted original texts directly, while sometimes substituted some characters or ...

This presentation will provide initial insights into the first comprehensive study of the networks of production and circulation of Jewish esoteric texts in early modern East-Central Europe (1500-1750). This study, which is funded by the German Research Foundation and h...

Roughly 400 manuscripts written in the Carolingian period (pre-AD 900) contain a considerable corpus of calendrical knowledge. In most manuscripts, this material amounts to a loosely structured compilation of tables, diagrams, definitions, and algorithms. What is the ni...

While traditionally, the transmission of medieval texts is studied by means of stemmatics, certian types of textuality are well-known as being particularly resistent to traditional methods. This is also the case with annotations. While annotations can behave text-like, ...

The Latin sermons preached by the Fathers of the Early Church – Augustine, Gregory, Leo – and their contemporaries had a dynamic and complex medieval afterlife. Throughout the Middle Ages, they circulated in manuscript form, usually as part of collections of patristic p...

This paper will show how techniques and perspectives borrowed from other disciplines of history can answer some fundamental unanswered questions about the early Middle Ages. One such question seems simple enough, though its implications are profound: who were the Church...

At the end of the 14th century, Jakob Twinger von Königshofen, a cleric from Strasbourg, composed a chronicle in the vernacular that spread widely – up to today nearly 130 manuscripts are known that contain the text, wholly or in parts, and that were produced not only i...

In recent years, researchers of early modern print culture, particularly those concerned with news circulation, have increasingly embraced network analysis to account for the flow of information across different regions and media. Even though most of these studies focus...

Computer-assisted methods of analysis open wide possibilities for asking new research questions and exploring new areas of textual and manuscript studies, which lie outside the reach of traditional methods. These can be questions of historical reception of texts, ethnic...