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.

2011-11-20

Rufinus

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Regular readers of this blog will recall that the Great Stemma is a graphic argument that the contradictory genealogies of Christ could be r...

Avatars of the Word

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Traditional scholars tend to sniff at the idea of the uncredentialed researcher searching Latin texts without the full classical education t...
2011-10-31

Visions

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I continue to search in vain for a scholarly exploration of data visualization in Antiquity. There is no doubt that Graeco-Roman graphics ar...

Karlsruhe MS

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Another Cassiodorus manuscript briefly went online in May at http://www.stgallplan.org/ and now seems to have vanished again. The Karlsruhe ...
2011-10-07

New Issue by e-Codices

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E-Codices in Switzerland this week put Cod. Sang. 133 online, and I have accordingly added hyperlinks to my edition of the Liber Genealogu...
2011-09-26

For Medievalists

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Dr Nathaniel Taylor has published a very acute news summary on the RootsWeb Gen-Medieval news list of what is new in Great Stemma research ...
2011-09-25

Detective Story

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Does the Liber Genealogus contain work by Lactantius? A detective story is developing around this unexpected proposition. I have only just ...
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