Our team will be producing a database that contains information for each inscription and religious house written into the Roll, creating manipulable data for an interactive map, behind which will be locational, descriptive, textual, and evaluative evidence. Such data permits a much closer account of spiritual networks in this period, together with an assessment of religious houses’ resources and abilities to connect perceptibly with each other. New questions will emerge from this project’s work that we hope will allow subsequent innovative research on holy women, their communities and their scribal capability; script type and trends in the earlier thirteenth century; and the significance and methods of collective memory formation in medieval England.
Elaine Treharne, MArAd, FSA, FRHistS, FEA, FLSW, is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford University, where she directs Stanford Text Technologies. She teaches and researches Medieval Literary Cultures, Manuscript and Archival Studies, and the long History of the Book. She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, the most recent being The Cambridge Companion to British Medieval Manuscripts (CUP, 2020) and Perspectives on Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book (OUP, 2021). Elaine has been principal investigator of ’The Use and Production of English, 1060 to 1220’, ‘Stanford Global Currents’, and ‘CyberText Technologies’. She is a Trustee of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
Mateusz Fafinski is an assistant lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin and a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. A medievalist and digital humanist, previously he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Lausanne and a TextTechnologies Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. He works on the adaptations of the post-Roman worlds, the nature of historical sources in the digital sphere, early medieval Latin manuscripts, as well as the role of urban space in Early Medieval societies.
Isabel is a rising-senior at University of California at Riverside pursing a B.S. in Sociology. She is currently working on an Honors research project on violence in television and its influences on gender. She has previously worked with Professor Treharne on Recollections: Reviving Personal Archives for Stanford Text Technologies.
Lauren is an undergraduate at Stanford majoring in History and minoring in Classics. She is particularly interested in high and late medieval Catholicism and how shrines drew pilgrims from every class, age, and gender group from all over Europe in huge numbers during this period. In her free time, she enjoys going on walking pilgrimages (e.g. the Camino de Santiago), baking, reading, and learning more about the Middle Ages through fantastic projects such as Medieval Networks of Memory.
Hailee Heinrich is a rising junior double-majoring in Communication and Political Science. She is a member of Stanford's synchronized swimming team and is excited to be a part of this project.
Hannah Kim is a rising sophomore pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Ethics (’24). With an interest in tech research and AI policy, she is working as a research intern at Stanford CESTA and Stanford Law RegLab.
