Carleton Guide to Medieval Rome

Mastering the Streets of Rome. A Documentary History of the Management of Waste, Space, and People, ca.1200-ca.1650

This project is a collaboration of William North (History), Pamela O. Long (Independent Scholar, Washington, D.C.), and Chiara Bariviera (Independent Scholar, Padova, Italy) and is designed to enhance the study and understanding of urban infrastructure in Rome between the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the 17th century. When complete, the published volume will offer translations of more than 50 significant and revealing documents, treatises, decrees, dispute records, papal bulls, and short works dedicated to the creation and management of infrastructure in Rome–street construction and maintenance, street cleaning and sanitation, neighborhood property conflicts, building guidelines, and the regulation of street life. The website will contain additional documents and scholarly articles in translation, images, maps, diagrams,links to other relevant digital projects, and an expanding bibliography.

The Virtual Viking Longship Project: A Study in the Future of Liberal Arts Teaching and Research

An interdisciplinary, collaborative effort between Grinnell CollegeCarleton CollegeThe Viking Museum Haithabu, and The Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, this project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Digital Humanities Advancement Grant program, explores and tests strategies for integrating undergraduate student learning and labor in the development of long-term Digital Humanities (DH) research projects. Combining the strengths of our project partners with the affordances of virtual reality (VR) hardware, game engine software, and 3D modeling software, the project aims to create an immersive VR experience for visualizing the social and cultural roles of a Viking Age longship by forming a DH community of inquiry and practice that cultivates deep competencies in spatial computing within the context of a liberal arts education. Professor Austin Mason is the project lead at Carleton.