Medieval Scribes: Progress Presentation I successfully took place on 20 June 2025 at the Academic Conference Centre in Prague. This one-day workshop was part of the research project Innovation and Inertia: The End of Medieval Scribes, which explores why scribes continued their work long after the invention of print — and what that reveals about […]
You are cordially invited to Medieval Scribes: Progress Presentation I. This event is part of the research project Innovation and Inertia: The End of Medieval Scribes, which explores why scribes continued their work long after the advent of print, and what this tells us about human resistance to change in times of transformation. 🗓 20 […]
We would like to invite you to a lecture by Katharina H. Wendl’s from Freie Universität Berlin on how Medieval texts on Torah scrolls making inform contemporary Jewish scribal practice. Date and time: 2 April, 17:30 Place: Center for Medieval Studies (Praha 1, Jilská 1)
The packed programme on the East Coast of the United States included a series of lectures, roundtables, and workshops that strengthened and opened new opportunities for mutual cooperation. The faculty was represented by Prof Lucie Doležalová and Dr Karel Pacovský from the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies at CU FA, Martin Roček, a PhD student of Latin […]
THEEND project members will lead a workshop on inertia and entropy in the context of medieval manuscripts. The workshop will take place on October 7, 2025 in Kutná Hora.
We were honored to be invited to present our digital humanities projects at an exchange workshop in Vienna, organized by the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies (Charles University), Institute for Medieval Research (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Manuscript, Rare Books and Archive Studies (Princeton University).
ANTIDOTE 2025 is a two-stage training course on the digital processing of medieval texts, funded by the ERASMUS+ program. The course includes basic training in Austria (March 3–7, 2025) and advanced training in Iceland (June 23–27, 2025), focusing on working with XML, OCR, data analysis, and visualization. The course is worth 5 ECTS and is […]
We are happy to invite you to a lecture pronounced by Alena Minko: „Connecting medieval recipes: frumenty and its transformation“ Date and time: November 27, 16:00–17:30 Place: Center for Medieval Studies (Praha 1, Jilská 1)
October 1, 2024 – official beginning of the project THEEND (Innovation and Inertia: The End of Medieval Scribes). Czech interview with the PI, Lucie Doležalová, here: https://www.ukforum.cz/rubriky/veda/9409-nastup-knihtisku-a-digitalizace-podobne-etapy-vsima-si-medievistka
Thanks to the strategic partnership of the University of St Andrews and Charles University, we are happy to welcome two colleagues – Margaret Connolly and Michael Brown. Their lectures are scheduled as follows: There will be also an opportunity to hear two more lectures, by Helen Leslie Jacobsen (from University of Bergen) and Fiona Somerset […]
