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Film, Video Chasing Krüger's Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical & Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy

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Title

  • Chasing Krüger's Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical & Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy

Summary

  • New computational techniques show how modern digital philology is changing the way we think of the transmission of medieval manuscripts through space and time. Using the notes of the classical philologist Paul Krüger, whose manuscripts were recently rediscovered in the Law Library of Congress, complex three dimensional visualization techniques will be used to show how the medieval manuscripts making up the Codex of Justinian are spatially and temporally related to each other. The talk also highlights how these new techniques give scholars the tools to postulate what the structure of missing and destroyed manuscripts might have been--changing the face of even the most traditional of the humanities, classical philology.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2012-09-27.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Literature
  • -  Science, Technology

Notes

  • -  Classification: General Works.
  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  John Hessler.
  • -  Recorded on 2012-09-27.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Visitors.

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  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688958

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  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Chasing Krüger's Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical & Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-27, 2012. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021688958/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2012) Chasing Krüger's Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical & Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-27. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021688958/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Chasing Krüger's Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical & Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-27, 2012. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021688958/>.