{"id":1459,"date":"2025-04-11T09:29:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T07:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/2025\/04\/11\/una-obra-coordinada-por-la-ull-examina-el-impacto-de-las-humanidades-digitales-en-los-estudios-historicos-y-filologicos\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:16:25","slug":"una-obra-coordinada-por-la-ull-examina-el-impacto-de-las-humanidades-digitales-en-los-estudios-historicos-y-filologicos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/2025\/04\/11\/una-obra-coordinada-por-la-ull-examina-el-impacto-de-las-humanidades-digitales-en-los-estudios-historicos-y-filologicos\/","title":{"rendered":"A work coordinated by the ULL examines the impact of digital humanities on historical and philological studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The publisher Routledge has just released '\u2018Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Texts: Current Perspectives and Approaches<\/a>\u2019 (Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Texts: Current Perspectives and Approaches)<\/em>, edited by Roberto J. Gonz\u00e1lez Zalacain<\/a>, The book is authored by Professor of Medieval History at the University of La Laguna and Gael Vaamonde, Professor of Spanish Philology at the University of Granada. It aims to offer a panoramic and critical overview of the current role of digital humanities (DH) in the study of medieval and Golden Age Hispanic texts, from both philological and historical perspectives.<\/p>\n

The work brings together a group of specialists from various European and American universities, combining studies of linguistic corpora, computational literary analysis, and cultural and historical approaches using digital methodologies. Divided into three main sections\u2014linguistics, literature, and history\u2014the volume proposes a multifaceted approach to how digital studies are reshaping textual research in the pre-modern Hispanic world.<\/p>\n

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The first part of the volume is dedicated to linguistic approaches and shows how digital tools allow for new approaches to the historical study of Spanish. Among other topics, it explores the use of small, well-structured corpora to analyze linguistic variation, hierarchical clustering techniques to propose a quantitative periodization of the language, and computational analysis methods to examine the relationship between rhyme and emotion in early poetry.<\/p>\n

The second section comprises a set of literary studies that apply technologies such as geolocation, digital editing, and stylometry to the analysis of late medieval and early modern Hispanic texts. Literary maps, digital libraries as research infrastructures, online academic editions of colonial works, and stylistic comparison tools for works from the Golden Age are examined.<\/p>\n

The third and final part of the volume bridges the gap between digital humanities and historical analysis, exploring how historical data can be processed, visualized, and reinterpreted in digital environments. It includes studies on Canarian vocabulary in documentary sources, digitized medieval archives, autobiographical writings, and prosopography applied to historical professions, all from a critical and digital methodological perspective.<\/p>\n

In short, the volume not only presents specific projects but also invites critical reflection on the methodological, epistemological, and technological challenges of digital research. Its aim is to offer an up-to-date guide for philologists, linguists, historians, and literary scholars interested in incorporating computational tools into their work.<\/p>\n

The book is the result of work promoted within the framework of the project CORDICan<\/a> (Diachronic Corpus of Canarian Spanish<\/em>), directed at the University of La Laguna by Dolores Corbella D\u00edaz<\/a> y Ana Vi\u00f1a Brito<\/a> and coordinated by Roberto J. Gonz\u00e1lez Zalacain, who in recent years has carried out extensive research combining philological and historical perspectives. Many of the contributions gathered here originated in the context of the meetings held within the framework of this project, which has served as an interdisciplinary platform for exploring new methodologies applied to the study of historical documentation from the Canary Islands.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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