?), led by Professor Bernhard Jussen (Goethe Universität Frankfurt-Historisches Seminar), has been funded by the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award (2008-2014). It aims at contributing to the history of political ideas by introducing computer-assisted methods of textual analysis. The project employs corpus-linguistic methods developed by research in modern history and applies them to medieval texts, by making use of
Der eHumanities Desktop als Werkzeug in der historischen Semantik:
Funktionsspektrum und EinsatzszenarienDie Digital Humanities bzw. die Computational Humanities entwickeln sich zu eigenständigen Disziplinen an der Nahtstelle von Geisteswissenschaft und Informatik. Diese Entwicklung betrifft zunehmend auch die Lehre im Bereich der geisteswissenschaftlichen Fachinformatik. In diesem Beitrag thematisieren wir den eHumanities Desktop als ein Werkzeug für diesen Bereich der Lehre. Dabei geht es genauer um einen Brückenschlag zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Informatik: Am Beispiel der historischen Semantik stellen wir drei Lehrszenarien vor, in denen der eHumanities Desktop in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Lehre zum Einsatz kommt. Der Beitrag schließt mit einer Anforderungsanalyse an zukünftige Entwicklungen in diesem Bereich.
Digital history is more than just the implementation of algorithmic and other data practices in the practice of history writing. It places our discipline under a microscope and enables us to focus in on what history writing is in the first place: writing about the past under specific social and societal conditions. This article argues for a closer look at the traditions of history writing in order to understand its principles and to determine what the digital condition contributes to historiography. Does the work of historians actually change in principle, or does digital history instead reflect the digital condition under which we operate? The article begins with a reflection on the works of Wilhelm Dilthey and Michel de Certeau to discuss how the society in which the historian writes influences the practices of interpretation. The article then presents what can be understood as the digital condition of our present societies and shows how algorithms function as "black boxes" that influence our social interactions, communication, and understanding of the world. The article's third part brings together the earlier discussions of practices of history writing and the digital condition in order to examine the role of modeling for knowledge production in the sciences and the humanities. The closing argument then focuses on the use of visualizations in digital history as an example of the operational use of models of knowledge in opening the "black box" of interpretation.
AbstractThis article examines the practice of law as a social practice. Especially at a time when there were only a few professional courts, the interaction at court also has a social component. Courts come together and are formed by actors for whom the judicial service was only one of many (often vassal) tasks. This means: at the moment of the court, at the moment of the trial, a group is formed for a certain purpose. It will be observed how these groups form, how they are composed, and how the decisions of the actors for a particular jurisdiction influence these processes. A case in point will be the so-called Justices in Eyre and their session in Huntingdon in 1286, representing a royal court journeying into the localities to challenge local courts and to provide royal justice for the population.
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