Author Archives: Peter A. Stokes

About Peter A. Stokes

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. After Honours degrees in Classics and English Literature and in Computer Engineering, Peter Stokes completed a PhD at Cambridge on English Vernacular minuscule ca 990-ca 1035. He was then Research Associate from 2005 to 2007 on the LangScape project of Anglo-Saxon boundary-clauses at CCH before receiving a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in Palaeography at the Department of Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic in Cambridge, where he developed new methods of quantitative and computer-based palaeography. He then returned to CCH to work on the Anglo-Saxon Cluster and Electronic Sawyer projects before being awarded a major research grant from the European Research Council for his Digital Resource for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic. He has spoken at conferences on name-studies, lexicography, Anglo-Saxon charters, image-processing and palaeography. He has been lecturing in palaeography and codicology at the University of Cambridge since 2004, in digital publishing at the Institute of English Studies since 2010, material culture of the book at King's College London in 2011, and formerly in medieval history at the University of Leicester in 2009/10.

New Vacancy on the Team

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Peter A. Stokes

We are recruiting for an additional developer on the project team! This is formally a two-year post, to the end of June 2014, but in practice it is very likely to be extendable for an additional three months to the … Read more

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Palaeography Training in London

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Peter A. Stokes

Two upcoming classes on palaeography to be held at the Institute of English Studies in London have just come to my attention. One is very soon indeed, so if you’re interested then be sure to sign up quickly. This is … Read more

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DigiPal at Kalamazoo 2012

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Peter A. Stokes

The DigiPal project will be well represented at the International Congress of Medieval Studies (ICMS) Kalamazoo 2012. The main event is a session we are sponsoring called ‘Digital Methods and Resources for Paleography and Manuscript Studies’ and will be on … Read more

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Public Lecture: Books, Runes and Writing

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Peter A. Stokes

An afternoon of talks for the public on the Anglo-Saxons will be taking place in central London on the 21 March 2012. Called ‘The Anglo-Saxons: Who? Where? When? Why?’, it promises a series of sessions on the history, language, writing, … Read more

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Ruling the Script: Seven Palaeography Sessions at Leeds IMC 2012

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Peter A. Stokes

I am very pleased indeed to hear that the International Medieval Congress (IMC) Leeds has accepted seven sessions on palaeography this year, meaning that there will be no fewer than twenty-one papers on the subject on Wednesday 11th and Thursday … Read more

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Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA) 2012

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Peter A. Stokes

Applications are now open for MMSDA 2012 from PhD students from any COST country – which basically means from anywhere in Europe or Israel! This may not be the case next year, so be sure to get in now while … Read more

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CFP, Writing Europe before 1450 Colloquium

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Peter A. Stokes

The ‘Writing Europe before 1450′ Colloquium will be held in Bergen in June 2012. The website is at http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing-europe, and the full Call for Papers is reproduced below. It should be an interesting conference! Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to … Read more

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Describing Handwriting, Part V: English Vernacular Minuscule

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Peter A. Stokes

In the previous posts, I have been outlining a model for describing handwriting. As promised earlier, I now want to outline how this may work in practice. To do this, I wish to provide a first draft of a complete … Read more

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Describing Handwriting, Part IV: Recapitulation and Formal Model

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Peter A. Stokes

In the previous post, I promised to give more concrete examples of how this system might work in practice. Before doing so, however, I first want to recap a bit and try to formalise the discussion so far. I was … Read more

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ESF Exploratory Workshop on Digital Palaeography

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Peter A. Stokes

The European Science Foundation recently sponsored an Exploratory Workshop on Digital Palaeography which was held at the University of Würzburg and organised by Dr Malte Rehbein. The DigiPal project was featured there, including a presentation by Dr Stewart Brookes, and … Read more

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