Event—Center for Renaissance Studies

Premodern Women and the Digital: A Hands-On Workshop

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A workshop on extracting information about women from premodern sources for digital projects.

Fifteenth-century record of a "bargayn made for v pense a week" between Edward Shepherde and Elizabeth Whawen copied into a twelfth-century manuscript of Augustine's commentary on the Psalms (VAULT Case MS 13).

Description

Following the October 2024 webinar “Medieval Women’s Networks: Exploring Tools and Techniques for Digital Analysis”, this workshop will explore how to extract information from premodern sources about women for use in digital environments. Through discussions, group work, and hands-on activities with Newberry collection items, participants will learn the steps needed to create transferable datasets and investigate possible applications for them. Doing so opens up collaborative possibilities and extends our knowledge of how to work with the information–at times oblique and messy– from the surviving material and documentary records of past women’s lives.

Learn more about the instructors, Kathy Krause and Laura Morreale.

Application Information

This workshop is free and open to all, but space is limited. Priority will be given to qualified applicants from CRS Consortium institutions. Consortium members may also be eligible to receive Consortium Grants to help defray travel costs. For more details, consult your local consortium representative.

To apply, click below. The application deadline is Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 11:59 pm Central Time.