Needful Things: Die Relationen der Dinge in einer Ontologie mittelalterlicher Narrative

Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer, Manuel Schwembacher, Isabella Nicka*, Miriam Landkammer, Peter Hinkelmanns

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Abstract

The Digital Humanities project ONAMA – Ontology of Narratives of the Middle Ages –, funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, is based on the extensive corpora of two long-term projects, the image database REALonline and the text database MHDBDB, which systematically index images and texts of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.
In ONAMA, not only constants and variables of narrative structures become evident, but also the individual points of reference that make up a specific narrative. As this research shows, things are as essential for narratological structures as characters and actions. The article focuses on how things are represented in the ONAMA-model and how their analysis can deepen our understanding of the narratives of images and texts in the Middle Ages.
Original languageGerman
JournalMEMO. Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Online
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2021

Fields of Science and Technology Classification 2012

  • 604 Arts
  • 602 Linguistics and Literature
  • 102 Computer Sciences

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