Medieval Manuscripts
Scribes often created capital letters adorned with gold leaf or vibrant pigments. This term for these highly decorated first letters is derived from the Latin word for "to light up."
What is an illuminated manuscript?
This is the name of our course.
What is "Digitizing the Past: Introduction to Digital Studies"
The three names of the Polo brothers are
What are Marco, Maffeo, and Nicolo>
Pizan's text was written in this year.
What is 1405?
This is the name of the interpretive technique that uses algorithms to detect linguistic or stylistic patterns.
What is distant reading?
This heavy, durable writing material, made from scraped and stretched calf, sheep, or goat skin, was used in Europe before the widespread adoption of paper.
What is parchment?
This is the number of excused absences allowed for this course.
What are two?
Polo served under the court of this prominent figure, a leader of the Mongolian Empire
Who is the Kublai Khan?
These three ladies visit Christine in her study.
Who are Lady Reason, Lady Rectitude, and Lady Justice?
This process fundamentally transforms books, creating new copies in the virtual world.
What is digitization?
Monks and scribes often worked in this designated, quiet writing room of a medieval monastery
What is a scriptorium?
This is the percentage of your grade that participation is worth.
What is 15%?
The two names for Polo's text are The Travels of Marco Polo and ____________.
What is The Book of the Marvels of the World?
This person supervised the creation of the manuscript containing the Book of the City of Ladies.
Who is Christine de Pizan?
A word cloud is like this manuscript feature which functions to highlight the importance of particular data.
What is a majuscule?
These highly popular, personalized prayer books were the most common type of illuminated manuscript owned by wealthy medieval citizens to help them track daily devotions.
What is a Book of Hours?
Even though this is a digital studies course, our ______ policy makes the use of _______ prohibited during class.
What is tech and electronic devices?
Marco traveled between the years of ______.
What are 1271-1295?
This is the name of the person who wrote the text degrading women that Pizan is directly addressing.
Who is Matheolus?
These are the three kinds of metadata
What are administrative, structural, and descriptive?
To keep multiple sections of a manuscript in order before binding, scribes wrote the first words of the next gathering at the bottom of the previous page, a practice known as what?
What is a catchword?
This course counts for these 3 gen ed designations.
What are CAD, LIT, and DQR?
This is the rough number of manuscript copies of Marco Polo's text that survive from the medieval period
What is 150?
Name one woman who makes up the foundation of Pizan's city.
Who are semiramis, nicaula, Fredegunde, or the Amazons?
These are the 2 rules of "tidy data"
What is one row per observation; one column per variable?