A presentation from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2021: Research Data Management for Digitally Curious Humanists, by Caroline Winter, Graham Jensen, Alyssa Arbuckle, and Ray Siemens.

A presentation from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2021: Conference & Colloquium, by Graham Jensen, Alyssa Arbuckle, Caroline Winter, Talya Jesperson, and Ray Siemens. 

A presentation from the 2021 Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH) conference, by Alyssa Arbuckle, Graham Jensen, Luis Meneses, Ray Siemens, and Caroline Winter. (Downloads: paper | slides)

A recorded lightning talk for Engaging Open Social Scholarship (2020), by Ray Siemens and Alyssa Arbuckle.

(Abstract and video password: #EngagingOSS)

A recorded panel discussion from the Digital Humanities 2020 conference, co-chaired by Ray Siemens (UVic) and Alyssa Arbuckle (UVic) and featuring Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Michigan State University), Gabriel Miller (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences), Susan Haigh (Canadian Association of Research Libraries), Clare Appavoo (Canadian Research Knowledge Network), and Chad Gaffield (U Ottawa).

The website for the Environments of Change project

MacDonald, Zack. “Virtual Herstmonceux.” Veer, 2019. https://www.medieval-environment.com/virtual-herstmonceux.

Abstract

"In 1775, Thomas Lennard, Lord Dacre commissioned James Lambert to sketch Herstmonceux castle before Reverend Robert Hare had the majority of the fifteenth-century castle demolished. A quick comparison of the lambert drawings and the present structure reveals that the current structure is not an authentic reconstruction of the late-medieval structure."

del Rosso, Peter. “Little Manor.“ Sketchfab, 2019. https://skfb.ly/6UI9I.

Kurian, Erin. “Industrial Waste Management and Urban Environments in Medieval England, 1300 – 1600.” YouTube, :55. 2020. https://youtu.be/cfj5C2Gm1SM.

Kurian, Erin. “Climate Change and the Medieval Period.” YouTube, 3:56. 2021. https://youtu.be/f_bBWcdvTZM.

MacDonald, Zack, Steven Bednarski, and Andrew Moore. “Herstmonceux Project: Fourteenth Century Land Loss.” ArcGIS. 2016. https://arcg.is/1vbHCn1

Abstract

This map tests the application of the spyglass story map for the Herstmonceux Project's historic coastline and flooding data.

Kennan, Claire. 2022. “Power, Piety and Presence: The Cult of Corpus Christi and the 1389 Guild Enquiry in Lincolnshire.” In Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul, edited by Jessica Lutkin and J.S. Hamilton. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv24tr7bs.16

Extract

"‘In the year of our Lord 1318 the feast of Corpus Christi was first celebrated by the whole English Church.’¹ This extract from documents relating to the Abbey of St Peter in Gloucestershire records the earliest known celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi in England. Just eight years later, in 1326, Louth in Lincolnshire became home to one of the earliest known Corpus Christi guild foundations in the country, and just two years after that, the Tailors’ Guild in Lincoln also decided to dedicate themselves to the cult."

Rasmussen, Ann Marie. Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.

Abstract

"Mass-produced of tin-lead alloys and cheap to make and purchase, medieval badges were brooch-like objects displaying familiar images. Circulating widely throughout Europe in the High and late Middle Ages, badges were usually small, around four-by-four centimeters, though examples as tiny as two centimeters and a few as large as ten centimeters have been found. About 75 percent of surviving badges are closely associated with specific charismatic or holy sites, and when sewn or pinned onto clothing or a hat, they would have marked their wearers as having successfully completed a pilgrimage."

Moore, Andrew and Steven Bednarski. “Draining the Swamp: National and Local Regulation of Drainage in a 1396 English Sewer Commission Report.” Speculum 97, no. 2 (April 2022): 1–27 (forthcoming).

Abstract

"The accounts of the Hospital of Saint-Esprit of Marseille, conserved in the 1HD E repository in the Archives Départementales des Bouches-du-Rhone, record the annual incomes and expenditures of the hospital. The extant accounts comprise 143 registers that date from 1306 to the end of the sixteenth century, when Saint-Esprit was amalgamated with the Hospital of Saint-Jacques de Galice to form the Hôtel-Dieu."

McCarroll, Danny, Josie E. Duffy, Neil Loader, et al. "Are there enormous age-trends in stable carbon isotope ratios of oak tree rings?" The Holocene 30.11 (2020): https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620941073

Loader, Neil et al. "Dating of non-oak species in the United Kingdom historical buildings archive using stable oxygen isotopes." Dendrochronologia 69 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125862

Davies, Darren and Neil Loader. "An evaluation of english oak earlywood vessel area as a climate proxy in the UK." Dendrochronologia 64 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125777

Abstract

"This research evaluates the usefulness of oak earlywood vessel area as a climate proxy in the western United Kingdom (UK). The results demonstrate that at this site earlywood vessel area contains a different environmental signal (March relative humidity) to a ring-width chronology developed from the same trees. The vessel area signal passes commonly used verification statistics and was found to be representative of the climate of a similar geographic area to other tree-ring proxies, albeit with a lower explained variance. Taking the average of all the vessels identified for each year weakened the reconstructed climate signal and it was found for this study that the average of the 10 largest vessels provided the strongest and most stable match. The results demonstrate earlywood vessel area of oak in the UK has potential as a climate proxy, but that further work to strengthen and characterise the climatic target variable controlling vessel area is required"

MacDonald, Zack. “Herstmonceux Great Barn: Uncertainty Values.“ Sketchfab, 2021. https://skfb.ly/o8Tyn.

Abstract

"Reconstruction of Herstmonceux’s medieval great barn, c. 14th century. The barn’s structural elements are coloured according to the source material on which they are based. Green represents elements with the highest certainty, whereas red is conjectural."