Contextualising, Conveying and Coping with Crises in the Medieval Period, 2025
COMMUNICATION IN CRISIS: Contextualising, Conveying and Coping with Crises in the Medieval Period... more COMMUNICATION IN CRISIS: Contextualising, Conveying and Coping with Crises in the Medieval Period
Eds. Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir and Lea D. Pokorny (University of Iceland)
Communication is fundamental to both the creation and resolution of conflicts and crises. Effective communication is crucial in urgent situations, as individuals strive to understand and convey their experiences through various means and channels. Crises, whether in a literal or figurative sense, often provoke inventive responses, leading to creative solutions and coping mechanisms. Conversely, miscommunication and misunderstandings can have devastating consequences. This book welcomes perspectives on how crises were contextualised and addressed through verbal and non-verbal communication in historiography, literature, language and script during the medieval period. Contributors are encouraged to explore language and communication on both macro and micro levels, shedding light on how individuals and societies navigated and addressed these events. This includes examining private and diplomatic correspondence, letters, literature, social networks, speech communities, writing systems, and personal crises involving individual speakers, writers, and written works. Additionally, contributors are welcome to discuss the challenges of studying the diachronic aspects of communication, speech, and writing, as well as various approaches to address these methodological issues.
Proceedings of the 10th Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, 2021
The 10th Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North was held from April 15–17, 2021... more The 10th Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North was held from April 15–17, 2021, marking a three-day online event on Zoom and Twitch as well as a virtual exhibition of 14 posters. This proceedings publication includes enlarged abstracts of 29 papers presented at the conference. The overall aim of this publication is to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North.
Manuscript AM 239 fol. is central for the so-called Helgafell-manuscripts, as it connects the gro... more Manuscript AM 239 fol. is central for the so-called Helgafell-manuscripts, as it connects the group of some sixteen manuscripts and fragments to the Augustinian house of Helgafell on Snæfellsnes in west Iceland. The manuscript’s significance lies not only in the ownership note on fol. 1r, but also in the fact that it was used as an exemplar for two manuscripts, AM 653 a 4to (with JS fragm. 7) and SÁM 1. The codicological structure of the manuscript is complex and was recently described as a composite consisting of two late-fourteenth-century production units. This article revisits the codicology of AM 239 fol; it shows there are, in fact, three production units from that period and explores the ways in which these relate to one another. The genesis of the manuscript is important to keep in mind when discussing AM 239 fol. as exemplar, as it offers a possible explanation as to why only one of its texts was copied into SÁM 1.
Bókavarða hlaðin Guðnýju Ragnarsdóttur sextugri 9. janúar 2023, 2023
This Festschrift-article describes bookmarks in AM 347 fol., Belgdalsbók.
The full citation is: ... more This Festschrift-article describes bookmarks in AM 347 fol., Belgdalsbók.
The full citation is: Pokorny, Lea D. 2023. „Bókamerki í AM 347 fol.“, in: Bókavarða hlaðin Guðnýju Ragnarsdóttur sextugri 9. janúar 2023 (Reykjavík: Menningar- og minningarsjóður Mette Magnussen), 20-21.
This article describes a methodological experiment conducted during the 13th Annual (Virtual) Sch... more This article describes a methodological experiment conducted during the 13th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, November 18–20, 2020. The experiment consisted of a “relay style” event in which three teams transcribed, revised, and prepared for submission to this journal a full edition of the “Le Pèlerinage de Damoiselle Sapience” and other texts from UPenn Ms Codex 660, ff. 86r–95v within the three-day timespan of the conference. The project used methods typical of crowdsourcing and drew participants from all over the world and from all different stages of their careers. After one group completed its work, the results were passed into the hands of the next. The final result—in the form of a finished manuscript edition, ready for submission to Digital Medievalist—was presented on the last day of the conference. The main purpose of this experiment was to demonstrate how the work of the transcriber and editor might be structured as a short-term digital event that relied wholly on virtual interactions with both the source materials and among collaborators. This method also reveals the positive aspects of the many challenges posed by working simultaneously, remotely, and globally.
Á miðöldum virðist hafa verið algengt að skrifarar sæju einnig um lýsingar (skreytingar) í handritum. Hér verður fjallað um skrifara handritsins AM 226 fol. sem dæmi um slíkt.
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In the Middle Ages it was possible for scribes to also be responsible for decorating manuscripts. This short column discusses the scribe of AM 226 fol. as an example of this.
Contextualising, Conveying and Coping with Crises in the Medieval Period, 2025
COMMUNICATION IN CRISIS: Contextualising, Conveying and Coping with Crises in the Medieval Period... more COMMUNICATION IN CRISIS: Contextualising, Conveying and Coping with Crises in the Medieval Period
Eds. Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir and Lea D. Pokorny (University of Iceland)
Communication is fundamental to both the creation and resolution of conflicts and crises. Effective communication is crucial in urgent situations, as individuals strive to understand and convey their experiences through various means and channels. Crises, whether in a literal or figurative sense, often provoke inventive responses, leading to creative solutions and coping mechanisms. Conversely, miscommunication and misunderstandings can have devastating consequences. This book welcomes perspectives on how crises were contextualised and addressed through verbal and non-verbal communication in historiography, literature, language and script during the medieval period. Contributors are encouraged to explore language and communication on both macro and micro levels, shedding light on how individuals and societies navigated and addressed these events. This includes examining private and diplomatic correspondence, letters, literature, social networks, speech communities, writing systems, and personal crises involving individual speakers, writers, and written works. Additionally, contributors are welcome to discuss the challenges of studying the diachronic aspects of communication, speech, and writing, as well as various approaches to address these methodological issues.
Proceedings of the 10th Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, 2021
The 10th Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North was held from April 15–17, 2021... more The 10th Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North was held from April 15–17, 2021, marking a three-day online event on Zoom and Twitch as well as a virtual exhibition of 14 posters. This proceedings publication includes enlarged abstracts of 29 papers presented at the conference. The overall aim of this publication is to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North.
Manuscript AM 239 fol. is central for the so-called Helgafell-manuscripts, as it connects the gro... more Manuscript AM 239 fol. is central for the so-called Helgafell-manuscripts, as it connects the group of some sixteen manuscripts and fragments to the Augustinian house of Helgafell on Snæfellsnes in west Iceland. The manuscript’s significance lies not only in the ownership note on fol. 1r, but also in the fact that it was used as an exemplar for two manuscripts, AM 653 a 4to (with JS fragm. 7) and SÁM 1. The codicological structure of the manuscript is complex and was recently described as a composite consisting of two late-fourteenth-century production units. This article revisits the codicology of AM 239 fol; it shows there are, in fact, three production units from that period and explores the ways in which these relate to one another. The genesis of the manuscript is important to keep in mind when discussing AM 239 fol. as exemplar, as it offers a possible explanation as to why only one of its texts was copied into SÁM 1.
Bókavarða hlaðin Guðnýju Ragnarsdóttur sextugri 9. janúar 2023, 2023
This Festschrift-article describes bookmarks in AM 347 fol., Belgdalsbók.
The full citation is: ... more This Festschrift-article describes bookmarks in AM 347 fol., Belgdalsbók.
The full citation is: Pokorny, Lea D. 2023. „Bókamerki í AM 347 fol.“, in: Bókavarða hlaðin Guðnýju Ragnarsdóttur sextugri 9. janúar 2023 (Reykjavík: Menningar- og minningarsjóður Mette Magnussen), 20-21.
This article describes a methodological experiment conducted during the 13th Annual (Virtual) Sch... more This article describes a methodological experiment conducted during the 13th Annual (Virtual) Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, November 18–20, 2020. The experiment consisted of a “relay style” event in which three teams transcribed, revised, and prepared for submission to this journal a full edition of the “Le Pèlerinage de Damoiselle Sapience” and other texts from UPenn Ms Codex 660, ff. 86r–95v within the three-day timespan of the conference. The project used methods typical of crowdsourcing and drew participants from all over the world and from all different stages of their careers. After one group completed its work, the results were passed into the hands of the next. The final result—in the form of a finished manuscript edition, ready for submission to Digital Medievalist—was presented on the last day of the conference. The main purpose of this experiment was to demonstrate how the work of the transcriber and editor might be structured as a short-term digital event that relied wholly on virtual interactions with both the source materials and among collaborators. This method also reveals the positive aspects of the many challenges posed by working simultaneously, remotely, and globally.
Á miðöldum virðist hafa verið algengt að skrifarar sæju einnig um lýsingar (skreytingar) í handritum. Hér verður fjallað um skrifara handritsins AM 226 fol. sem dæmi um slíkt.
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In the Middle Ages it was possible for scribes to also be responsible for decorating manuscripts. This short column discusses the scribe of AM 226 fol. as an example of this.
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Eds. Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir and Lea D. Pokorny (University of Iceland)
Communication is fundamental to both the creation and resolution of conflicts and crises. Effective communication is crucial in urgent situations, as individuals strive to understand and convey their experiences through various means and channels. Crises, whether in a literal or figurative sense, often provoke inventive responses, leading to creative solutions and coping mechanisms. Conversely, miscommunication and
misunderstandings can have devastating consequences. This book welcomes perspectives on how crises were contextualised and addressed through verbal and non-verbal communication in historiography, literature, language and script during the medieval period. Contributors are encouraged to explore language and communication on both macro and micro levels, shedding light on how individuals and societies navigated and
addressed these events. This includes examining private and diplomatic correspondence, letters, literature, social networks, speech communities, writing systems, and personal crises involving individual speakers, writers, and written works. Additionally, contributors are welcome to discuss the
challenges of studying the diachronic aspects of communication, speech, and writing, as well as various approaches to address these methodological issues.
Papers by Lea D . Pokorny
The full citation is:
Pokorny, Lea D. 2023. „Bókamerki í AM 347 fol.“, in: Bókavarða hlaðin Guðnýju Ragnarsdóttur sextugri 9. janúar 2023 (Reykjavík: Menningar- og minningarsjóður Mette Magnussen), 20-21.
In this presentation, I discuss colours and pigments identified in Flateyjarbók, GKS 1005 fol.
Á miðöldum virðist hafa verið algengt að skrifarar sæju einnig um lýsingar (skreytingar) í handritum. Hér verður fjallað um skrifara handritsins AM 226 fol. sem dæmi um slíkt.
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In the Middle Ages it was possible for scribes to also be responsible for decorating manuscripts. This short column discusses the scribe of AM 226 fol. as an example of this.
Eds. Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir and Lea D. Pokorny (University of Iceland)
Communication is fundamental to both the creation and resolution of conflicts and crises. Effective communication is crucial in urgent situations, as individuals strive to understand and convey their experiences through various means and channels. Crises, whether in a literal or figurative sense, often provoke inventive responses, leading to creative solutions and coping mechanisms. Conversely, miscommunication and
misunderstandings can have devastating consequences. This book welcomes perspectives on how crises were contextualised and addressed through verbal and non-verbal communication in historiography, literature, language and script during the medieval period. Contributors are encouraged to explore language and communication on both macro and micro levels, shedding light on how individuals and societies navigated and
addressed these events. This includes examining private and diplomatic correspondence, letters, literature, social networks, speech communities, writing systems, and personal crises involving individual speakers, writers, and written works. Additionally, contributors are welcome to discuss the
challenges of studying the diachronic aspects of communication, speech, and writing, as well as various approaches to address these methodological issues.
The full citation is:
Pokorny, Lea D. 2023. „Bókamerki í AM 347 fol.“, in: Bókavarða hlaðin Guðnýju Ragnarsdóttur sextugri 9. janúar 2023 (Reykjavík: Menningar- og minningarsjóður Mette Magnussen), 20-21.
In this presentation, I discuss colours and pigments identified in Flateyjarbók, GKS 1005 fol.
Á miðöldum virðist hafa verið algengt að skrifarar sæju einnig um lýsingar (skreytingar) í handritum. Hér verður fjallað um skrifara handritsins AM 226 fol. sem dæmi um slíkt.
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In the Middle Ages it was possible for scribes to also be responsible for decorating manuscripts. This short column discusses the scribe of AM 226 fol. as an example of this.