Defining and studying lost documents (deperdita) from early medieval Europe and beyond: possibilities and implications

定义和研究中世纪早期欧洲及以后丢失的文献（deperdita）：可能性和影响

• 批准号: AH/Y000102/1
• 负责人: Marios Costambeys
• 金额: $ 4.7万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY000102%2F1
• 关键词: Defining; studying; lost; documents; deperdita

A large majority of the written documents produced in the period known (in European terms) as the early middle ages do not survive. The documents and archives that do survive, however, betray the existence of those that have been lost. In the historiography of Latinate western Europe, these lost documents and archives are known as 'deperdita'. This new international network constitutes the first ever concerted effort to study lost documents and archives, informed by comparison with other periods, documentary cultures and disciplines.While the network has been initiated by scholars of the European early middle ages, it aims to open conversations with historians of other periods and places and scholars from other disciplines for whom the subject of lost documents is a key concern. This is the case for historians of early modern Europe, of the Islamic world, and of medieval and early modern Jewish communities, for all of whom documentary archives form the core of their evidence base. Archival loss and recovery have also been long-standing issues in the discipline of archival science, issues that have linked in recent years with the problems and possibilities generated by the digitisation of records. Technological advance has also brought digital humanities methodologies into play, such as network analysis to recognize what archives omit or miss and imaging technology to help to recover lost text. Our research will ask how we can investigate and understand documentary loss and what opportunities its study provides to contribute insights that resonate in different fields. We will create a new international network of historians, archivists and digital humanities specialists to investigate ways in which the study of 'deperdita' in the European early middle ages and cognate societies can be of mutual benefit across all of these disciplines. In three annual meetings, the work of early medievalists on 'deperdita' in their period will be scrutinized by historians of the early modern period and of pre-modern Jewish and Islamicate archives, by archival scientists and by digital humanities specialists. We aim not only to inform and influence each other's work, but also in particular to exploit our shared expertise to devise focused research projects, optimize our methodologies and determine the best ways to disseminate our results.

在中世纪早期（欧洲术语）产生的绝大多数书面文件都没有保存下来。然而，幸存下来的文件和档案暴露了那些已经丢失的文件和档案的存在。在拉丁西欧的史学中，这些丢失的文件和档案被称为“deperdita”。这个新的国际网络是有史以来第一个通过与其他时期、文献文化和学科的比较来研究丢失的文献和档案的共同努力。虽然这个网络是由欧洲中世纪早期的学者发起的，但它的目的是与其他时期和地方的历史学家以及其他学科的学者进行对话，他们对丢失的文献的主题非常关注。这是早期现代欧洲，伊斯兰世界，中世纪和早期现代犹太社区的历史学家的情况，对所有这些人来说，文件档案构成了他们证据基础的核心。档案丢失和恢复也一直是档案学学科中的长期问题，近年来这些问题与记录数字化产生的问题和可能性有关。技术进步也带来了数字人文方法发挥作用，如网络分析，以识别什么档案遗漏或错过和成像技术，以帮助恢复丢失的文本。我们的研究将询问我们如何调查和理解文献损失，以及它的研究提供了什么机会来贡献在不同领域引起共鸣的见解。我们将创建一个新的历史学家，档案学家和数字人文专家的国际网络，以调查在欧洲中世纪早期和同源社会的“deperdita”的研究可以在所有这些学科的互惠互利的方式。在三次年度会议上，早期中世纪学者在其时期的“deperdita”工作将由早期现代时期和前现代犹太和伊斯兰档案的历史学家，档案科学家和数字人文专家进行审查。我们的目标不仅是为彼此的工作提供信息和影响，而且特别是利用我们共同的专业知识来设计重点研究项目，优化我们的方法，并确定传播我们成果的最佳方式。