The meetings organized each year are to deepen our knowledge about the diversity and richness of Latin literature of medieval Poland, and at the same time to discuss the most important aspects of creating the corpus of Polish medieval Latin. The meetings will also be an opportunity to present the project itself and learn about the expectations of the environment. This year we organize workshops under the slogan Borders, turning points, periods in the Latin writing of the Polish Middle Ages.

The process of creating a corpus involves making a series of decisions that arbitrarily categorize historical and cultural reality. When does the Polish Middle Ages begin and end? What geographical boundaries should be drawn for Latin production in the 13th and 15th century? Are the works of Mateusz from Krakow associated with the environment of Krakow, Prague or maybe Heidelberg? Should widely recited biblical texts, imported forms, Western European collections of exemplars find their place in the corpus as documents of the reception that shape linguistic usage? What status should be accorded in it to Polish-Latin texts, glosses, Polish or German documents? How and whether to represent complex text-image relationships?

Corpus eFontes however, it is not only a methodological challenge, as it can also help to answer the above questions and provide new research hypotheses. Research on the variability of language and methods of digital humanities allows us today to redefine important analytical concepts (such as "office style" or "writing practices") and to objectify the description of the geographical, chronological, stylistic and social diversity of Latin texts of the Polish Middle Ages.

This year, the workshops will be held remotely via the Zoom program (https: /zoom.us). Session links will be sent to registered participants 30 minutes before the meeting.

To register for an appointment, click here.

 The workshop is organized by the team Electronic corpsu Polish Medieval Latin. The project has been running since 2018.

Electronic body arises in Medieval Latin Studio Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the studio, among others, Dictionary of Polish Medieval Latin, and research projects are also carried out, incl. Długosz 2.0. Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN jest jednym z najważniejszych ośrodków badań językoznawczych w Polsce i największym „dostawcą” akademickich słowników języka polskiego i łaciny średniowiecznej.

We can organize the workshops thanks to the support of the National Program for the Development of Humanities.