Current projects
Members of QuaDiHum Lab are currently involved in several projects…
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Quantitative methods for automatic dating of medieval Latin texts: the case of hagiographic writings (PhD thesis)
As part of his doctoral thesis, Guillaume Quintin (ReSIC, Université libre de Bruxelles) studies Late Antique and Medieval hagiographic texts written in Latin — narratives about saints and their lives. This is a extensive corpus (several hundred texts) spanning more than a thousand years (3rd – 13th c.). Passio Kiliani (Hannover, Niedersächsischen Landesbibliothek, Ms. I…
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The OrdoNum project: Digitization and global analysis of ordinances from the Early Modern Low Countries
In this collaborative project, Marie Kervyn (ULB, SociAMM) and Sébastien de Valeriola work with the support of the Département des bibliothèques et de l’information scientifique on a series of ordinances from the early modern period published by the Commission royale pour la publication des anciennes lois et ordonnances de Belgique around 1900. The idea of…
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A Horizon-Heritage project: Recovering Past Stories for the Future
The Quadihum laboratory is involved in a Horizon Europe project, following the call HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-04: Cultural heritage in transformation – facing change with confidence. The core of the project consists of a series of case studies inspired by the historical experience of the Transylvanian Saxons, who built prosperous settlements in the Middle Ages on the territory…
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Reflecting on heraldic data encoding
In this collective reflection with members of the team that runs the Sigilla platform, Sébastien de Valeriola looks at the question of encoding heraldic data. Coats of arms are traditionally described using a drawing and/or a short text in natural language (blazon). Coat of arms of the Dukes of Brabant: De sable, au lion d’or,…
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Expert Sourcing in Belgian Media: A Case Study of COVID-19 Crisis Reporting
In this collaborative project, David Domingo (Université libre de Bruxelles, professor in journalism), Ingrid Van Marion (Université libre de Bruxelles, expert in science communication), and Sébastien de Valeriola study how journalists invoked academic experts in Belgian media during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis. To do this, they use a corpus of approximately 225,000 articles…
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Mining Digitised Press Corpora to Study the History of Belgian Journalism
In this collaborative project, Sébastien de Valeriola is working with four members of the LaPIJ (Laboratoire des pratiques et identités journalistiques): Florence Le Cam (Université libre de Bruxelles), Manon Libert (Université de Mons), Alexia Vidalenche (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Brecht Deseure (Université libre de Bruxelles / Bibliothèque royale de Belgique). The project is part…
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Ambiguous Landscapes: Quantifying Uncertainty in Non-systematic Regional Survey Data
In this collaborative project, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta¹ (Aarhus University) and Sébastien de Valeriola test the robustness of some spatial analysis methods in archaeology. This study is part of the broader context of uncertainty management in the humanities, a subject on which little work has been undertaken, despite its central importance.The dataset they are working on…
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A quantitative study of Latin hagiographic manuscripts
In this collaborative project, Bastien Dubuisson (Université du Luxembourg / Université de Namur) and Sébastien de Valeriola are exploiting the BHLms database, which describes 7,486 medieval manuscripts containing 16,933 Latin hagiographic texts, i.e. relating to saints and their relics. Since the middle of the 17th century, the Société des Bollandistes has been collecting as many…
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The European circulation of medieval Belgian coins: a network analysis approach
In this collaborative project, Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani (Université de Namur / Archives de l’État à Namur) and Sébastien de Valeriola study the circulation of coins from the mints of the principalities of the Low Countries in the Middle Ages, using network analysis methods.The analysis is based on Aimé Haeck’s (2012) collection of 8,722 finds of medieval…
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La manosphère. Analyse linguistique et thématique d’un discours de haine (Thèse de doctorat)
La thèse de doctorat entreprise par Marie Serisier (Université Paris-Cité/Université Libre de Bruxelles) depuis septembre 2022 analyse l’idéologie masculiniste sur Reddit. Le masculinisme est un mouvement militant extrémiste qui remonte aux années 1970 et qui s’est développé d’abord en parallèle puis en marge des revendications féministes de la deuxième vague. Il s’appuie sur des idéaux…
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Analyzing Historical Set Data: the Case of Medieval Biblical Prologues
In this collaborative project, Céline Engelbeen (ICHEC Bruxelles Business school), Chiara Ruzzier (Université de Namur) and Sébastien de Valeriola are studying a dataset describing medieval biblical manuscripts. In the Middle Ages, Bible manuscripts do not all have the same textual content. The variation that is observed does not concern the canon of the official texts,…
(this list is not exhaustive and will be added to as we go along)
Past projects
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