Exploring Croatian Latin school drama with an XML database
Neven Jovanović (neven.jovanovic@ffzg.hr)
Warsaw, October 7, 2017
This page: croala.ffzg.unizg.hr/jovanovic-sources-drama/
Repository: bitbucket.org/nevenjovanovic/croalabiblio
The Plan
On digital reconstruction of genres in general
On Neo-Latin drama
Croatian school drama
From repertoire to XML, with examples
Conclusions
heute schon ist das Buch, wie die aktuelle wissenschaftliche Produktionsweise lehrt, eine veraltete Vermittlung zwischen zwei verschiedenen Kartothekssystemen. Denn alles Wesentliche findet sich im Zettelkasten des Forschers, der's verfaßte, und der Gelehrte, der darin studiert, assimiliert es seiner eigenen Kartothek.
today the book is already, as the present mode of scholarly production demonstrates, an outdated mediation between two different filing systems. For everything that matters is to be found in the card box of the researcher who wrote it, and the scholar studying it assimilates it into his own card index.
(Walter Benjamin, Einbahnstraße, 1928)
Monica Berti
(assistant professor at the University of Leipzig, Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities)
digitalathenaeus.org: A digital edition of the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis
Berti, www.dfhg-project.org
Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum
a digital version of the five volumes of the Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG)
edited by Karl Müller 1841-1872
digital facsimile available on archive.org
Karl Müller 1841-1872
Felix Jacoby 1923-1959
The Brill's New Jacoby and Brill's New Jacoby, Second Edition 1994-2026
Reconstruction
Producing precisely citeable segments that can be manipulated by digital methods;
anybody interested can and may manipulate the reconstruction, not only querying and exploring it, but also reordering, adding, selecting.
When the reconstruction is published under an open license, we are allowed, even invited to do so.
Discussion becomes possible.
Drama as a research problem
The Neo-Latin drama as a European genre
Neo-Latin drama in Croatia?
Compared to other literary genres, drama in the Latin literature of Croatia did not achieve a high literary level, and, what is more, very few texts have been preserved. Though the Latin language was carefully nurtured in Croatia through many centuries it could not penetrate into wider circles, and Latin drama could not expect to have large audiences. However, mention should be made of the fact that in Jesuit colleges students performed plays in Latin on biblical and historical themes with a pedagogical and moralistic object. The small number of the preserved school plays, as well as the titles and contents of these that have not been preserved, suggest that their literary standard was not very high.
(Gortan and Vratović 1971:55)
Compared to other literary genres, drama in the Latin literature of Croatia did not achieve a high literary level, and, what is more, very few texts have been preserved. Though the Latin language was carefully nurtured in Croatia through many centuries it could not penetrate into wider circles, and Latin drama could not expect to have large audiences. However, mention should be made of the fact that in Jesuit colleges students performed plays in Latin on biblical and historical themes with a pedagogical and moralistic object. The small number of the preserved school plays, as well as the titles and contents of these that have not been preserved, suggest that their literary standard was not very high.
(Gortan and Vratović 1971:55)
M. Petranović, L. Ljubić,
Repertoar hrvatskih kazališta: Knjiga peta: Deskriptivna obrada važnijih predstava na hrvatskom jeziku i izvedbi na stranim jezicima hrvatskih izvođača do 1840. godine: na temelju znanstvene literature
[Repertoire of Croatian theatres, Book Five, A Descriptive List of the More Important Performances in Croatian and Performances in Foreign Languages By Croatian Performers to the Year 1840; Based on Scholarly Literature]
(Zagreb 2012)
M. Vanino, Isusovci i hrvatski narod
[The Jesuits and the Croatian people], Vol. 1-3
(Zagreb, 1969-2005)
The tools
BaseX XML database (analysis and web publishing)
XQuery language (analysis and publishing of XML)
TEI as an encoding standard
CTS as a citation standard
oXygen to edit XML
Performances in chronological order
The limitation issue: Triumphus crucis?
A sample record of a drama performance
A sample record of a drama performance
