This article explores the interface of multiple legal systems in early modern Daghestan. By comparing colonial engagements with legal plurality with indigenous genres of Daghestani legal discourse, I aim to shed light on the plurality of legal systems that preceded as well as informed legal discourse under colonialism. The Daghestani turn to…[Read more]

As cultural heritage collections become available online they carry the promise of ‘access’ – new audiences, new uses, new understandings. But access is never simply open. Limits are imposed, structures are defined, categories are created. Decisions are made about what gets digitised and why. This chapter will describe a series of exper…[Read more]

This study results from the knowledge of the insufficiency in standards and rules used for the identification and description of written musical documents. Enlightened by the new standard development, particularly the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and recent studies on the concept of a work and bibliographic…[Read more]

This paper aims to explore the characteristics and nuances of presenting or performing identity. It asks questions of how the internet and -web transforms how we view/read and create art and literary works, how it affects the creative process as it becomes not only a period of meditative creation but also an event, and how these digital platforms…[Read more]

This chapter uses Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive to consider the ways that collaborative, public-facing digital humanities initiatives can conflict with institutional conventions and methods of evaluating academic labor. Collaborative work creates challenges as well as opportunities for its organizers and laborers. The particular…[Read more]

This chapter uses Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive to consider the ways that collaborative, public-facing digital humanities initiatives can conflict with institutional conventions and methods of evaluating academic labor. Collaborative work creates challenges as well as opportunities for its organizers and laborers. The particular…[Read more]

Que faire du corpus des œuvres d’un artiste lorsque celui-ci disparaît rapidement et prématurément alors qu’il est en plein développement de son art et de sa pensée? Comment est-ce qu’un artiste prépare/contrôle la diffusion et l’interprétation de son œuvre au-delà de sa mort ? Quel est la responsabilité des proches et le degré d’interventio…[Read more]

The Wellcome Library, in considering a project to digitise and transcribe recipe manuscripts using crowdsourcing technologies, commissioned this report from Ben Brumfield and Mia Ridge in Summer 2015. The report addresses issues specific to this project, and to the Wellcome Library’s digital infrastructure.

Es bien conocido que la Relación sumaria de la Historia verdadera del Rey Don Pedro (PhiloBiblon BETA Texid 3377) es una de las obras de mayor complejidad analítica en toda la literatura hispánica de finales de la Edad Media y comienzo del Renacimiento. No solo en lo que concierne a su laberíntico entramado ecdótico, del que se han ocupado inve…[Read more]

In this directed readings course, students will study the relationship between the discipline of history and computing tools through a combination of theoretical and hands-on activities. They will read and respond weekly to a number of print and digital materials. There are two objectives for this directed readings: to explore the methods of…[Read more]

Slides accompanying a panel representing the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Frankenstein project to build a digital scholarly variorum edition that updates, bridges, and intersects multiple divergent editions of Frankenstein, including the manuscript notebook drafts of 1816, the 1818, 1823, and 1831 print editions, as well as the handwritten notes in the…[Read more]

Ideas and materials for building a web portal for archival information about Romagna, a historical subregion of Italy.

On the evening of 8 September 1778, an altercation occurred in Boston between bakers employed making bread for the French fleet anchored offshore and a number of unidentified townspeople. When the crowd asked the bakers for some bread to eat, the bakers refused, so the crowd assaulted both the bakers and a pair of French naval officers who hurried…[Read more]

Examines the organization and curriculum of the Jesuit colleges in the Maryland-New York Province from the creation of the province in 1879 through the establishment of the New England Province in 1926. Explores how the provincial and collegiate administrations worked to adapt to the changing educational landscape during this period, focusing…[Read more]

This essay is part of a pioneering special issue on Ottoman international law, and analyses the work of several Egyptian and Ottoman lawyers focused on the understudied field of private international law. It argues for greater attention to the history of private international law by examining lawyers and functionaries in Ottoman and post-Ottoman…[Read more]

Review essay of: Robert Justin Goldstein, American Blacklist: The Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2008); Ivan Greenberg, The Dangers of Dissent: The FBI and Civil Liberties Since 1965 (New York: Lexington Books, 2010); Tim Wiener, Enemies: A History of the FBI (New York: Random House, 2012).

Between 1836 and 1865, a series of marriages took place within the Greek Orthodox community of London. Initially performed in homes and a converted chapel, ceremonies began to be held in the newly constructed Greek Orthodox Church from 1850 onwards. Unaware of the legal necessity of registering marriages with the government, marriages were not…[Read more]

A spreadsheet containing the names and additional details of members of the Lancaster Amicable Society in 1887. The names were originally published in the 1887 catalogue under the title of ordinary members and included 112 persons. Using the 1881 and 1891 censuses for England, individuals have been identified and information, including occupation,…[Read more]