Medieval Studies and the Computer focuses on the use of computers in medieval studies and humanities research. Topics covered range from encoding and concording texts to the use of conceptual glossaries by medievalists, as well as the use of computers for compiling Middle English lexicography and the Wisconsin Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language. A computer analysis of metrical patterns in the epic Beowulf and of Notker Labeo's Old High German is also presented.Comprised of 26 chapters, this volume begins by discussing "contexts" in concordances and the set of conventions employed in text encoding. The reader is then introduced to the series of initiatives undertaken in Belgium to study Latin literature and linguistics; the use of conceptual glossaries by medieval scholars; and the use of the computer to make a word list of the Decretum Gratiani and to study Geoffrey Chaucer's vocabulary. Subsequent chapters discuss a computer program called KLIC (Key Letter In Context) for graphological analysis; a set of routines written in SAIL (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language) for use by social historians in quantitative analysis or text processing; and the use of Mark IV, a general-purpose file management system, to analyze medieval charters.This book will be of interest to medievalists, social historians, students and scholars of humanities, and computer scientists.

¿Guest Editor's Note: Medieval Studies and the ComputerSome Considerations Concerning Encoding and Concording TextsVox Latina: Belgian Initiatives in Data Processing the Intellectual Language of Europe, A. D. 197-1965Conceptual Glossaries: A New Tool for MedievalistsAn Index Verborum to Gratian's Decretum: The Reason to Computerize ItZur Erstellung einer computerunterstützten Grammatik "Flexionsmorphologie des FrühneuhochdeutschenComputers and the Old Spanish DictionaryComputers and Medieval English LexicographyThe Study of Chaucer's VocabularyA Computer Analysis of Metrical Patterns in BeowulfTowards an Analysis of Notker Labeo's Old High GermanDictio probatoria as Fingerprint: Computer Discovery of Manuscript ProvenancesKLIC: A Computer Aid to Graphological AnalysisMöglichkeiten und Grenzen Elektronischer Datenverarbeitung bei der Erforschung der Geschichte des Mittelalters Informatique et Histoire Médiévale á l'lnstitut de Recherche et d'Histoire de TextesData Base Development and Analysis for the Social Historian: The Educational Status of the Beneficed Clergy of The Diocese of Hereford, 1289-1539Medieval Charters and the Computer: An Analysis Using Mark IVA Prosopographical and Topographical Evaluation of the First Bürgerbuch of Freiburg, Switzerland (1341-1416)The Cognitive Basis of Late Medieval Religious BiographiesThe Use of Computers in Editing Medieval Baptismal Records in Pisa (1457-1509)From Microfilm to Computer: 15th Century Cadastral and Notarial ArchivesProjekt "Untersuchungen zu altisländischen RechtstextenRecords of Early English Drama and the ComputerComputer Indexing of Illuminated Manuscripts for Use in Medieval StudiesA Numerical Taxonomy of Merovingian CoinsThe Mt. Angel Abbey Manuscript and Rare Books Project: Cataloguing with FAMULUSProject Reports