A symposium hosted by the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon.
Organised by the research project iForal. Portuguese municipal charters in the Middle Ages: an historical and linguistic approach in the digital era (FCT – PTDC/HAR-HIS/5065/2020).

In the last decades, ground-breaking digital scholarly projects have worked on modelling charters as semi-diplomatic, versioned, and linguistically glossed texts. At the same time, working groups such as the CEI have been considering the possibilities of a standard to encode medieval and early modern charters in XML, inserting diplomatics’ concepts and charter-specific markup into the framework of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines. Hopefully, these developments allow for the interoperability of tools and resources specific to this type of documentation, promoting the replication of well-succeeded experiences in other corpora and historical traditions.

However, digital techniques are still relatively unfamiliar to many researchers working in the area, and those venturing into new digital projects are often overwhelmed by the challenges encountered. The project iForal is promoting a small-scale online symposium with researchers in the field to discuss challenges, current approaches, and future perspectives on editing medieval legal charters.

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Registration is free. Please submit the online form by September 2nd, 2022.

Programme and registration form available at:
https://sites.google.com/campus.ul.pt/deacharters2022/home