Thanks to researchers specialised in Middle Dutch, Icelandic, Middle English, & French (Middle French, Old French, Anglo-Norman, Franco-Italian, Franco-Occitan, Franco-Provençal, Occitan), the LostMa corpus has grown to nearly 2.5k witnesses of Medieval tales (texts).

lostma-erc.github.io#witnesses

To build a multilingual corpus, experts in various traditions are contributing metadata about Medieval texts & witnesses.

For several weeks, the Middle Dutch 🇳🇱 🏆 group has been leading in both texts & witnesses. But recently our French 🇫🇷 team passe des vitesses 💪
lostma-erc.github.io/corpus#stats

📢 Job Klaxon! #DigitalHumanities #DH

The deadline approaches (23 March 2025) to apply to 1 of 2 PhD contracts we're offering in the ERC project LostMa, hosted @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social

On our website, learn more about the project & find a link to the job description: lostma-erc.github.io/news#0

📣 Job offers
We are recruiting two PhD students in computational philology, to work on textual transmission with a methodology blending cultural evolution models, philology and data analysis 🧪
Deadline: 31 March 2025

Current state of affairs on OpenStemmata, before some big updates. Old French and Middle High German are clear winners, but with your help, some of the runners up may just join the leading pack
#medievalsky

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The LostMa ERC project is kicking off its 2nd year with a new look. Next up... stickers!