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Big Data (Big Data), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, 2014
This poster describes a field study that was undertaken in spring 2014 at the US National Archive... more This poster describes a field study that was undertaken in spring 2014 at the US National Archives as part of the MLS in Curation and Management of Digital Assets program at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. The primary focus of the field study was the augmentation of open-source software for the batch loading of image files and metadata into the repository associated with Wikipedia, specifically to improve the handling of multi-page documents. A secondary focus was the importation into Wikidata of existing, freely available authority records, records that can facilitate the disambiguation of organizational names and the automatic linking of Wikipedia articles.
Revue bénédictine, Jan 1, 2010
[From http://www.maredsous.be/index.php?id=1216&L=2 :] Abstract. — To date, Bede‘s letter to Alb... more [From http://www.maredsous.be/index.php?id=1216&L=2 :]
Abstract. — To date, Bede‘s letter to Albinus—which he wrote to accompany copies of his Historia ecclesiastica and De templo that he was sending to his friend and mentor in Canterbury—has been known only from Jean Mabillon‘s 1675 edition of a now lost manuscript. This article presents a new edition and translation of the letter, based on two recently discovered medieval manuscripts, together with a fresh examination of its transmission and authenticity.
Résumé. — À ce jour, la lettre de Bède à Albinus — écrite pour accompagner les copies de son Historia ecclesiastica et son De templo envoyées à son ami et mentor à Cantorbéry — n‘était connue que par l‘édition de Jean Mabillon (1675) selon un manuscrit maintenant perdu. Cet article propose une nouvelle édition de la lettre avec traduction, fondée sur deux manuscrits médiévaux récemment découverts, ainsi qu‘un examen renouvelé de sa transmission et de son authenticité.
The Cambridge Companion to Bede, Jan 1, 2010
14 JOSHUA A. WESTGARD Bede and the continent in the Carolingian age and beyond When the Venerable... more 14 JOSHUA A. WESTGARD Bede and the continent in the Carolingian age and beyond When the Venerable Bede composed the literary ... This humble statement, it would seem, masks a grander conception of his intended audi-ence, just as his characterizing his own works as ...
Early Medieval Europe, Jan 1, 2010
In the nineteenth century Freeman suggested that Cnut's conquest of England was his great achieve... more In the nineteenth century Freeman suggested that Cnut's conquest of England was his great achievement and his most valued territorial gain. This romanticized vision has been questioned, revised and challenged in the intervening period. However, the influence of Freeman is still felt, not so much in the perpetuation of his argument, but in the concentration by historians on Cnut's English possessions. Quite understandably so, given the dearth of written sources for Denmark and Norway in the period, and the need to adopt an interdisciplinary approach in order to arrive at any conclusions at all. Bolton's book is therefore welcome on two counts, first because he offers new insight into the debate on Cnut's attitude to his Anglo-Saxon realm, and secondly owing to Bolton's refusal to be daunted by the necessity of engaging with diverse disciplines in order to integrate the Danish and Norwegian evidence into his overall argument.
Revue bénédictine, Jan 1, 2006
Presents evidence against the conclusion that C-type MSS of Bede's Ecclesiastical History "held a... more Presents evidence against the conclusion that C-type MSS of Bede's Ecclesiastical History "held a monopoly" in England after the 8th century.
Today, the Venerable Bede’s (672/3-735) Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (HE) is widely con... more Today, the Venerable Bede’s (672/3-735) Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (HE) is widely considered one of the great works of early medieval historical writing. In the Middle Ages, it was widely known and also greatly admired, but for very different reasons. This dissertation examines two aspects of the HE’s popularity in the medieval period: First, it is a study of the transmission of the work in medieval Germany, a region where the text enjoyed great success. Second, it is an analysis of the manuscript evidence for the text’s reception in the German-speaking world. After a brief introduction in Chapter One, Chapter Two surveys the history of the study of the manuscript tradition of the HE, and groups the manuscripts of the German “textual province” on the basis of test collations. The test collations are given in full in Chapter Three. In Chapters Four and Five, the focus shifts to the reception of the text, first (in Chapter Four) with an analysis of the text’s manuscript context (including mise-en-page, marginalia, and associated works), as a way of getting at its readership. In Chapter Five, the focus is on the text’s library context, that is, it is an examination of the libraries known to have held copies of the HE, and the ways the text seems to have fit into those collections, based primarily on the evidence of medieval library catalogues. Finally, Chapter Six provides a brief concluding summary that emphasizes how the interests of the medieval readers of the HE differed from those of its modern readers, and particularly how the medieval German audience of the work was most interested in the “universal” Christian elements in Bede’s text, especially the lives of popular saints, their miracles, and otherworld visions. The Appendices include a manuscripts finding-list, and a transcription of two hitherto unrecognized copies of the so- called Continuatio Bedae from Prague and Vienna.
Papers by Joshua Westgard
A lightning talk delivered at the Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum, McKeldin Librar... more A lightning talk delivered at the Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum, McKeldin Library, June 4, 2015. The tool described is available at http://www.github.com/jwestgard/csv-validate/.
The Medieval Review, 2008
Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle
Big Data (Big Data), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, 2014
This poster describes a field study that was undertaken in spring 2014 at the US National Archive... more This poster describes a field study that was undertaken in spring 2014 at the US National Archives as part of the MLS in Curation and Management of Digital Assets program at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. The primary focus of the field study was the augmentation of open-source software for the batch loading of image files and metadata into the repository associated with Wikipedia, specifically to improve the handling of multi-page documents. A secondary focus was the importation into Wikidata of existing, freely available authority records, records that can facilitate the disambiguation of organizational names and the automatic linking of Wikipedia articles.
Revue bénédictine, Jan 1, 2010
[From http://www.maredsous.be/index.php?id=1216&L=2 :] Abstract. — To date, Bede‘s letter to Alb... more [From http://www.maredsous.be/index.php?id=1216&L=2 :]
Abstract. — To date, Bede‘s letter to Albinus—which he wrote to accompany copies of his Historia ecclesiastica and De templo that he was sending to his friend and mentor in Canterbury—has been known only from Jean Mabillon‘s 1675 edition of a now lost manuscript. This article presents a new edition and translation of the letter, based on two recently discovered medieval manuscripts, together with a fresh examination of its transmission and authenticity.
Résumé. — À ce jour, la lettre de Bède à Albinus — écrite pour accompagner les copies de son Historia ecclesiastica et son De templo envoyées à son ami et mentor à Cantorbéry — n‘était connue que par l‘édition de Jean Mabillon (1675) selon un manuscrit maintenant perdu. Cet article propose une nouvelle édition de la lettre avec traduction, fondée sur deux manuscrits médiévaux récemment découverts, ainsi qu‘un examen renouvelé de sa transmission et de son authenticité.
The Cambridge Companion to Bede, Jan 1, 2010
14 JOSHUA A. WESTGARD Bede and the continent in the Carolingian age and beyond When the Venerable... more 14 JOSHUA A. WESTGARD Bede and the continent in the Carolingian age and beyond When the Venerable Bede composed the literary ... This humble statement, it would seem, masks a grander conception of his intended audi-ence, just as his characterizing his own works as ...
Early Medieval Europe, Jan 1, 2010
In the nineteenth century Freeman suggested that Cnut's conquest of England was his great achieve... more In the nineteenth century Freeman suggested that Cnut's conquest of England was his great achievement and his most valued territorial gain. This romanticized vision has been questioned, revised and challenged in the intervening period. However, the influence of Freeman is still felt, not so much in the perpetuation of his argument, but in the concentration by historians on Cnut's English possessions. Quite understandably so, given the dearth of written sources for Denmark and Norway in the period, and the need to adopt an interdisciplinary approach in order to arrive at any conclusions at all. Bolton's book is therefore welcome on two counts, first because he offers new insight into the debate on Cnut's attitude to his Anglo-Saxon realm, and secondly owing to Bolton's refusal to be daunted by the necessity of engaging with diverse disciplines in order to integrate the Danish and Norwegian evidence into his overall argument.
Revue bénédictine, Jan 1, 2006
Presents evidence against the conclusion that C-type MSS of Bede's Ecclesiastical History "held a... more Presents evidence against the conclusion that C-type MSS of Bede's Ecclesiastical History "held a monopoly" in England after the 8th century.
Today, the Venerable Bede’s (672/3-735) Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (HE) is widely con... more Today, the Venerable Bede’s (672/3-735) Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (HE) is widely considered one of the great works of early medieval historical writing. In the Middle Ages, it was widely known and also greatly admired, but for very different reasons. This dissertation examines two aspects of the HE’s popularity in the medieval period: First, it is a study of the transmission of the work in medieval Germany, a region where the text enjoyed great success. Second, it is an analysis of the manuscript evidence for the text’s reception in the German-speaking world. After a brief introduction in Chapter One, Chapter Two surveys the history of the study of the manuscript tradition of the HE, and groups the manuscripts of the German “textual province” on the basis of test collations. The test collations are given in full in Chapter Three. In Chapters Four and Five, the focus shifts to the reception of the text, first (in Chapter Four) with an analysis of the text’s manuscript context (including mise-en-page, marginalia, and associated works), as a way of getting at its readership. In Chapter Five, the focus is on the text’s library context, that is, it is an examination of the libraries known to have held copies of the HE, and the ways the text seems to have fit into those collections, based primarily on the evidence of medieval library catalogues. Finally, Chapter Six provides a brief concluding summary that emphasizes how the interests of the medieval readers of the HE differed from those of its modern readers, and particularly how the medieval German audience of the work was most interested in the “universal” Christian elements in Bede’s text, especially the lives of popular saints, their miracles, and otherworld visions. The Appendices include a manuscripts finding-list, and a transcription of two hitherto unrecognized copies of the so- called Continuatio Bedae from Prague and Vienna.
A lightning talk delivered at the Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum, McKeldin Librar... more A lightning talk delivered at the Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum, McKeldin Library, June 4, 2015. The tool described is available at http://www.github.com/jwestgard/csv-validate/.
The Medieval Review, 2008
Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle