Medieval music manuscripts pose special challenges for digital processing. Their unique page layouts and sometimes extreme degradation can make it difcult even to identify the portions of an image that correspond to the musical page. This paper addresses the page identication problem for medieval documents, with natural extensions to any type of image processing that entails separating a bord...

Most Fabula readers do not have an easy access to Hebrew books, and therefore it would be highly advisable to have the present volume available in a more accessible language to folklore scholars around the world. The issues that Rella Kushelevsky addresses, the texts that she interprets, and the analytical method that she employs are all relevant to current folklore scholarship, and therefore t...

Tracheostomy was first described by Greco-Roman physicians, including Paulus of Aegina. Medieval Islamic clinicians extended the Greco-Roman ideas with substantial contributions to the field of surgery, including tracheostomy. Although Al-Zahrawi (936-1013 CE) stated that he had not heard or read of any Islamic physicians having performed tracheostomy, there is evidence that many prominent Isla...

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Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, by LOREN MACKINNEY, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965, pp. xvii, 263, 104 plates, 105s. It is a pity that Loren MacKinney did not live to see the publication of this beautifully produced book, which represents to some extent the culminating point of his thirty years' search for medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts. He had i...

The text presents the results of excavation early medieval burial ground, where more than 60 burials and one circular feature were identified. find situation, anthropological condition remains archaeological finds are described, ecofacts also analysed. Radiocarbon dating nitrogen carbon isotope analysis conducted on selected specimens. assemblage corresponds to location ground away from an elit...

We explore the application of stylometric methods developed for modern texts to rhymed medieval narratives (Jacob van Maerlant and Lodewijk van Velthem, ca. 1260–1330). Because of the peculiarities of medieval text transmission, we propose to use highly frequent rhyme words for authorship attribution. First, we shall demonstrate that these offer important benefits, being relatively content-inde...

This paper presents a method employed in building a semantically annotated corpus of 11,741 Verbal Autopsy documents, each annotated with Cause of Death, based on verbal records of deaths of mothers, stillbirths, and infants up to 1 year of age, captured for analysis in Ghana between December 2000 and July 2010. Verbal Autopsy is a technique which involves interviewing individuals (such as rela...

Email: [email protected] This volume is witness to a spirited and fruitful period in the evolution of corpus linguistics. In twenty-two articles written by established corpus linguists, members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Mediaeval English) association, this new volume brings the reader up to date with the cycle of activities which make up this field of study as...