This critical edition of charters from the great Hospitaller cartulary of 1442 provides a wealth ... more This critical edition of charters from the great Hospitaller cartulary of 1442 provides a wealth of evidence for the study of both the Hospitallers and Templars in the 12th to 14th centuries. The editor's introduction demonstrates how the documents reveal major differences between the wealthy Templar Order and the far more modest establishment of the Hospitallers, and his thorough examination of the manuscript includes an innovative methodology for the dating of undated charters.
Gervers Michael. The Deeds project : Towards the dating and analysis of english private charters ... more Gervers Michael. The Deeds project : Towards the dating and analysis of english private charters of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In: Le médiéviste et l'ordinateur, N°41, hiver 2002. L'apport cognitif. pp. 60-65
Deeds, or charters, dealing with property rights, provide a continuous documentation which can be... more Deeds, or charters, dealing with property rights, provide a continuous documentation which can be used by historians to study the evolution of social, economic and political changes. This study is concerned with charters (written in Latin) dating from the tenth through early fourteenth centuries in England. Of these, at least one million were left undated, largely due to administrative changes introduced by William the Conqueror in 1066. Correctly dating such charters is of vital importance in the study of English medieval history. This paper is concerned with computer-automated statistical methods for dating such document collections, with the goal of reducing the considerable efforts required to date them manually and of improving the accuracy of assigned dates. Proposed methods are based on such data as the variation over time of word and phrase usage, and on measures of distance between documents. The extensive (and dated) Documents of Early England Data Set (DEEDS) maintained a...
The DEEDS project and the development of a computerised methodology for dating undated English pr... more The DEEDS project and the development of a computerised methodology for dating undated English private charters of the 12th and 13th centuries, Michael Gervers an overview of the process of dating undated medieval charters - latest results and future development, Rodolfo Fiallos dating the charters of the smaller religious houses in Suffolk in the 12th and 13th centuries, Marjorie Chibnall recherches autour de la datation des cites normands aux Xe-XIIe siecles, Veronique Gazeau l'etude du vocabulaire et al datation des actes - l'apport des bases de donnees informatisees, Benoit-Michel Tock the charters of King Henry II - the introduction of the Royal Inspeximus revisited, Nicholas Vincent a new method for dating and identification of forgeries? the DEEDS methodology applied to a forged charter of Count Robert I of Flanders for St Peter's Abbey, Ghent, Georges Declercq the identification of a forgery - regularities and irregularities in the formulae of the charters issued...
This article deals with the working of the computer programme called DEEDS. Its main aim is datin... more This article deals with the working of the computer programme called DEEDS. Its main aim is dating diplomas which lack chronological elements by means of comparing its form, or groups of words, using a database that contains the texts of countless 12 and 13 century English documents.
The church of Y ә mr әḥ anna Kr ә stos (Tigray Province) is a royal foundation and one of the few... more The church of Y ә mr әḥ anna Kr ә stos (Tigray Province) is a royal foundation and one of the few built churches that have survived in Ethiopia from before the fteenth century. Its survival is undoubtedly due to its having been erected inside a cave. Patronage has been attributed to an eponymous king who is thought to have ruled in the second half of the twelfth century, but aspects of the architecture itself point rather to the mid-thirteenth century. e church’s measurements are modest, being 8.75 m long and 6.4 m wide. It is nevertheless endowed with twenty-six windows. at probably six are blind and ten open onto near total darkness emphasizes their aesthetic purpose. ose of the more visible north and east sides are for the most part lled with highly decorative and often intricate wood- and stone-carved patterns. While some of these can be traced back to the great stele of Axum, others are mirrored in the painted intarsia-like ceiling decoration of the church interior, in the wood...
This critical edition of charters from the great Hospitaller cartulary of 1442 provides a wealth ... more This critical edition of charters from the great Hospitaller cartulary of 1442 provides a wealth of evidence for the study of both the Hospitallers and Templars in the 12th to 14th centuries. The editor's introduction demonstrates how the documents reveal major differences between the wealthy Templar Order and the far more modest establishment of the Hospitallers, and his thorough examination of the manuscript includes an innovative methodology for the dating of undated charters.
Gervers Michael. The Deeds project : Towards the dating and analysis of english private charters ... more Gervers Michael. The Deeds project : Towards the dating and analysis of english private charters of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In: Le médiéviste et l'ordinateur, N°41, hiver 2002. L'apport cognitif. pp. 60-65
Deeds, or charters, dealing with property rights, provide a continuous documentation which can be... more Deeds, or charters, dealing with property rights, provide a continuous documentation which can be used by historians to study the evolution of social, economic and political changes. This study is concerned with charters (written in Latin) dating from the tenth through early fourteenth centuries in England. Of these, at least one million were left undated, largely due to administrative changes introduced by William the Conqueror in 1066. Correctly dating such charters is of vital importance in the study of English medieval history. This paper is concerned with computer-automated statistical methods for dating such document collections, with the goal of reducing the considerable efforts required to date them manually and of improving the accuracy of assigned dates. Proposed methods are based on such data as the variation over time of word and phrase usage, and on measures of distance between documents. The extensive (and dated) Documents of Early England Data Set (DEEDS) maintained a...
The DEEDS project and the development of a computerised methodology for dating undated English pr... more The DEEDS project and the development of a computerised methodology for dating undated English private charters of the 12th and 13th centuries, Michael Gervers an overview of the process of dating undated medieval charters - latest results and future development, Rodolfo Fiallos dating the charters of the smaller religious houses in Suffolk in the 12th and 13th centuries, Marjorie Chibnall recherches autour de la datation des cites normands aux Xe-XIIe siecles, Veronique Gazeau l'etude du vocabulaire et al datation des actes - l'apport des bases de donnees informatisees, Benoit-Michel Tock the charters of King Henry II - the introduction of the Royal Inspeximus revisited, Nicholas Vincent a new method for dating and identification of forgeries? the DEEDS methodology applied to a forged charter of Count Robert I of Flanders for St Peter's Abbey, Ghent, Georges Declercq the identification of a forgery - regularities and irregularities in the formulae of the charters issued...
This article deals with the working of the computer programme called DEEDS. Its main aim is datin... more This article deals with the working of the computer programme called DEEDS. Its main aim is dating diplomas which lack chronological elements by means of comparing its form, or groups of words, using a database that contains the texts of countless 12 and 13 century English documents.
The church of Y ә mr әḥ anna Kr ә stos (Tigray Province) is a royal foundation and one of the few... more The church of Y ә mr әḥ anna Kr ә stos (Tigray Province) is a royal foundation and one of the few built churches that have survived in Ethiopia from before the fteenth century. Its survival is undoubtedly due to its having been erected inside a cave. Patronage has been attributed to an eponymous king who is thought to have ruled in the second half of the twelfth century, but aspects of the architecture itself point rather to the mid-thirteenth century. e church’s measurements are modest, being 8.75 m long and 6.4 m wide. It is nevertheless endowed with twenty-six windows. at probably six are blind and ten open onto near total darkness emphasizes their aesthetic purpose. ose of the more visible north and east sides are for the most part lled with highly decorative and often intricate wood- and stone-carved patterns. While some of these can be traced back to the great stele of Axum, others are mirrored in the painted intarsia-like ceiling decoration of the church interior, in the wood...
The writer compares and contrasts two groups of silk and cotton tablet-woven hangings from Tigre,... more The writer compares and contrasts two groups of silk and cotton tablet-woven hangings from Tigre, Ethiopia. Silk hangings now in the possession of the British Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, originally came from the treasury of the defeated King Tewodros in Maqdala. Following the introduction of these hangings to the scholarly community in 1990, another very important group of cotton tablet-woven hangings was found in three separate churches in the Tambien region of central Tigre. It is evident that these geographically concentrated cotton hangings are closely interrelated with each other and with their silken counterparts; most of the images in the figural registers represent ecclesiastical scenes or subjects, or lay figures with hands raised in prayer. The cotton hangings appear to have been woven without access to the royal silken ones, though using motifs inspired by them. They can be divided into those that maintain a semblance of the silk hangings' content an...
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