Ruse of reuse: Detecting text-similarity with AI in historical sources

Session

Session 4

6 Mar 2026, 11:00

Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor (Georg-Coch-Platz 2, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

13. Viral Bible. Biblical Trends Across the Middle Ages

Andrea Scalia (Universität Wien)

06/03/2026, 11:00

14. Text Reuse and the Social Life of Early Medieval Canon Law

Sven Meeder (The Social Life of Early Medieval Normative Texts (SOLEMNE) project, Radboud University), Gleb Schmidt (The Social Life of Early Medieval Normative Texts (SOLEMNE) project, Radboud University)

06/03/2026, 11:30

15. Tracing the Tradition of the Roman Conquest of Jerusalem in Latin Texts (c.400- c.1300): A Database with c.2500 Entries

Alexander Marx (IMAFO, ÖAW), Peter Andorfer (ACDH, ÖAW)

06/03/2026, 11:50

My current project investigates how the Roman conquest of Jerusalem (70 CE) was deployed in medieval Latin texts between c.400 and c.1300. This includes building up a database that catalogues each occurrence that I can find, counting at the moment c.2200 entries, and eventually probably c.2500 entries. Deploying the Roman conquest was both an intense textual engagement with biblical references...