In this presentation, Kathryne Beebe, associate professor of medieval history at the University of North Texas and the 2024–25 Fulbright-University of Innsbruck Visiting Professor, will argue for the benefits of supplementing traditional, qualitative, historical approaches with digital technologies and quantitative analysis. As supporting evidence, she will discuss her research on “imagined pilgrimage,” the European devotional practice of traveling on pilgrimage in the mind, as well as her work on the political process of the late-medieval Observant reform of convents and priories. Kathryne will end by highlighting her current collaborative study of a fifteenth-century pilgrimage text at the University of Innsbruck with: the students in her course, UE Historische Hilfswissenschaften und Medienkunde: Introduction to (Gendered) Digital History; the University’s Forschungszentrum Digital Humanities; the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol; and the Bibliothek des Ferdinandeums of the Tiroler Landesmuseen, Innsbruck.

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