The Values of French Language and Literature in the European Middle Ages TVOF

Medieval manuscript illumination of Noah's Ark, depicting Noah guiding animals onto the ark, with birds flying above and figures inside.
Miniature of Noah and the Ark, From London, British Library, Add. 15268, F. 7v. Reproduced With the Permission of the British Library Board.

TVOF's overall research interest was the role of French as a supralocal, transnational language, particularly in Western Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, during a crucial period, 1100-1450. The team approached this topic through the creation of a digital edition of a complex and widely disseminated textual tradition vital to medieval understandings of European history and identity, the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César. KDL created interfaces to display alignments of content segments across the edition, and collaborated with colleagues from Dictionnaire étymologique de l’ancien français (DEAF) in building a workflow which assisted the project scholars to lemmatise the encoded text.

Team

  • Geoffroy Noël Research Software Engineer
  • Ginestra Ferraro Research Software Designer
  • Hannah Morcos (KCL) Researcher
  • Henry Ravenhall Researcher, FAH Department of Languages
  • Literatures and Cultures] Principal investigator
  • Literatures and Cultures] Researcher
  • Literatures and Cultures] Researcher
  • Literatures and Cultures] Researcher
  • Literatures and Cultures] Researcher
  • Luca Barbieri Researcher, University of Florence
  • Marcus Husar Researcher, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Maria Teresa Rachetta Researcher, FAH Department of Languages
  • Miguel Vieira KDL Research Software Engineer
  • Natasha Romanova Researcher, FAH Department of Languages
  • Paul Caton KDL Research Software Analyst
  • Simon Gaunt Principal investigator, FAH Department of Languages
  • Simone Ventura Researcher, FAH Department of Languages