About the Team
French Renaissance Paleography extends into the digital realm the Newberry Library's nearly four decades of experience offering intensive classroom-based instruction in late medieval and Renaissance vernacular paleography. Drawing on the library's expertise with that face-to-face educational format, this digital resource aims to bring the study of early French manuscript culture to an even larger audience than can be accommodated in a classroom. This site provides a set of self-help tools to assist students, researchers, librarians, calligraphers, and designers with reading French manuscripts dating from 1300 to 1700 and understanding their contexts. It aims to foster collaborations across disciplines and generate new knowledge through the intersection of individual and group work.
The French Renaissance Paleography project is a collaborative project supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Lead Project Staff |
Developers |
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Carla Zecher, Project Director, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies and Renaissance Society of America [administration, site structure, metadata, background essays] |
Kelli Babcock, Digitial Initiatives Librarian Lisa Gayhart, User Experience Librarian Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries |
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Caroline Prud’Homme, Postdoctoral Scholar in French Paleography, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies [manuscript selection, metadata, transcriptions, background essays] |
Gordon Belray, Information Architect, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries |
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Marc H. Smith, Project Paleographer, Professeur de paléographie, École nationale des chartes, and Directeur d’études, École pratique des hautes études [transcriptions] |
Chul Hee Yoon, Project Application Programmer Analyst Bilal Khalid, Senior Applications Programmer Analyst Sunny Lee, Digital Initiatives Programmer Analyst Andy Wagner, Project Application Programmer Analyst Xiao (Sean) Zhao, Project Application Programmer Analyst Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries |
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William R. Bowen, Director, ITER, University of Toronto |
Patrick Cuba, Lead Developer, Center for Digital Humanities, Saint Louis University |
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James R. Ginther, Director, Center for Digital Humanities, Saint Louis University |
Bryan Haberberger, Developer, Center for Digital Humanities, Saint Louis University |
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Sian Meikle, Director of Library Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries |
Han Yan, Developer, Center for Digital Humanities, Saint Louis University |
Assisting Staff |
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Karen Christianson, Center for Renaissance Studies. Newberry Library |
Lesa Dowd, Conservation, Newberry Library Catherine Gass, Photographer, Newberry Library |
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Margaret English-Haskin, ITER, University of Toronto |
Emily R. Kelley, Digital Map Creator, Northwestern University |
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Donal Hagerty, Center for Digital Humanities, Saint Louis University |
Ellen Hargis, Vocal Recordings, The Newberry Consort |
Thank you to many additional Newberry Library staff, including David Spadafora (President); Jennifer Thom and John Powell (Digitial Initiatives); Danny Greene and Brad Hunt (Research & Academic Programs); Hjordis Halvorson (Library Services); Jim Akerman (Maps & Modern Manuscripts); Alan Leopold, Linda Ballinger, and Jessica Grzegorski (Collection Services); and Andrew Belongea (Center for Renaissance Studies).
Thank you also to Ken Yang, Rachelann Pisani, Emily Dix, Stephanie Pegg, Christopher Benitez, Owen Chi-Fei Ma, David Sprague, Ellie Tamura, and Althea Tsang (Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries); and Debra Cashion and Meg Smith (Center for Digital Humanities, Saint Louis University).
We also want to thank our advisory board members: Bernard Barbiche, Bill Bowen, Konrad Eisenbichler, Rich Freedman, John Gagné, Jim Ginther, Elizabeth Goldsmith, Drin Gyuk, Alan Leopold, Sian Meikle, Carla Rahn Phillips, Guy Poirier, Brian Sandberg, Ray Siemens, Marc Smith, Jennifer Thom.