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Scholars of diplomatics never had a fundamental opposition on using modern technology to support their research. Nevertheless no technology since the introduction of photography had such an impact on questions and methods of diplomatics as the computer had. This book discusses the methodological consequences of doing diplomatic research on huge corpora and fast text mining technologies. It gives examples of how to enlarge the digitised charter corpus and demonstrates research applying information technology on medieval and early modern charters asking pure diplomatic questions as well as doing historical or philological research.

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Georg Vogeler is lecturer at the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities at Graz University, and technical director of the International Center for Archival Research (ICARus). Antonella Ambrosio is a researcher in the Department of Humanities in University in Naples, Italy, where she studies the medieval charters of South of Italy and teaches Palaeography and Diplomatics. Sébastien BARRET is a research fellow at the Institut de recherche et d"histoire des textes of the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Orléans/Paris.

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