Alfonso X's Libro de los juegos: Big Results from Small Data
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Organizer Name
Linde M. Brocato
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Memphis
Presider Name
Mildred Budny
Presider Affiliation
Research Group on Manuscrpt Evidence
Paper Title 1
El Libro de los juegos como reproducción y recreación de la vision politica de Alfonso X
Presenter 1 Name
Lola Bollo-Panadero
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Colby College
Paper Title 2
Prudence in Play: Alfonso X's Libro de acedrex e tablas as a Theory of Decision Making
Presenter 2 Name
Michael A. Conrad
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. Zürich
Paper Title 3
Response
Presenter 3 Name
Linde M. Brocato
Start Date
11-5-2018 3:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 204
Description
In this era of “big data” and data-mining, the Libro de los juegos of Alfonso X (1221–1284) offers a significant counter-case: one specific manuscript of only moderate length that provides insight into a multiple domains. It is “small data,” but data so rich that it produces “big results” when placed in productive tension across domains and disciplines. It is a book that lends itself to interdisciplinary conversation, and to conversations that trace its contents and its effects over time, as part of a particular corpus and part of a concrete library. The purpose of this session is to encourage a lively interdisciplinary discussion of its texts, images, and the physical book from a variety of domains, perspectives, and methods in order to address a broad array of questions both related to and beyond its explicit topic, games and aristocratic leisure, and, as such, welcomes participants from all quarters interested in cross-disciplinary analysis and discussion of the Libro de los juegos.
Mildred Budny
Alfonso X's Libro de los juegos: Big Results from Small Data
Bernhard 204
In this era of “big data” and data-mining, the Libro de los juegos of Alfonso X (1221–1284) offers a significant counter-case: one specific manuscript of only moderate length that provides insight into a multiple domains. It is “small data,” but data so rich that it produces “big results” when placed in productive tension across domains and disciplines. It is a book that lends itself to interdisciplinary conversation, and to conversations that trace its contents and its effects over time, as part of a particular corpus and part of a concrete library. The purpose of this session is to encourage a lively interdisciplinary discussion of its texts, images, and the physical book from a variety of domains, perspectives, and methods in order to address a broad array of questions both related to and beyond its explicit topic, games and aristocratic leisure, and, as such, welcomes participants from all quarters interested in cross-disciplinary analysis and discussion of the Libro de los juegos.
Mildred Budny