Macro-Typography

Brings news on research into the history of text presentation. Recent posts deal with my discovery of the world's oldest data visualization, the 5th-century Great Stemma. This blog also offers a way to comment on the www.piggin.net website and communicate with the author, Jean-Baptiste Piggin.

2011-07-22

Liber Genealogus Text

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Just in time for the Oxford Patristics Conference, I have completed a new, structured edition of the Liber Genealogus and published it onli...
2011-07-08

Oxford Patristics Conference

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Here is the Oxford Patristics Conference web announcement of my paper to be delivered August 11: The Great Stemma: A Late Antique diagram o...
2011-06-06

Reconstruction

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A first reconstruction of the Great Stemma is complete. This has been accomplished using OpenOffice Draw, separating the various elements in...
2011-05-28

E-Codices

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Some very good news from Professor Christoph Flüeler of the E-Codices manuscript digitization project in Switzerland. I asked him if Cod. S...
2011-05-27

At the Oxford Patristics Conference

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I have been accepted to present a paper on the Great Stemma at the Oxford Patristics Conference which takes place in England August 8-12. T...
2011-05-26

Ekphrasis

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In the classic sense, ekphrasis means a poem that vividly describes a work of art or other physical artefact. During the Greek period, such...
2011-04-10

Liber Genealogus

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A 9,000-word study of the links between the Liber Genealogus and the Great Stemma more or less completes my detailed research into the olde...
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