Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. In modern reading rooms the lighting is generally more diffuse and homogeneous, and in consequence the surface texture of a manuscript is not perceived in the same way.This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Such light could also help when painting, where overlapping strokes can be better controlled because of similar lighting. If this seems redundant, imagine the difficulty in following lines ruled with a punctorium (blind ruling) without such raking light (Figure 1). more parallel to the parchment (‘grazing’ or ‘raking’ light), a manuscript can expose an extraordinary dimension – texture. When illuminated in the same way, with light from the side as it would have been in a Scriptorium, i.e. It is not rare to find the scribe or copyist monk depicted as seated in profile at their working table, sometimes framed by the arches of the cloister 4. The position of the scribe and the angle of incidence of the light source are not clearly attested by written sources, but may be found in iconography 3. It would reach the working table at an extreme angle 2, similar to a raking light, modelled by the orientation of the room and time of day. We can make some interesting reflections on the characteristics of that light. Medieval scribes complained of the difficulty and physical effort of the long and hard labour of illuminating or copying manuscripts with the dim light coming through the windows of the monasteries 1. Its genesis and sustained development reside in a collaboration of archivists, historians and computer scientists, the latter being not only in charge of the development of the software, but also of creating and incorporating novel pattern recognition for document analysis techniques. The suite is intended to ease considerably the process of bringing locked away historical materials to the attention of the general public by covering all the steps from managing a digital collection to creating interactive presentations suited for cultural exhibitions. ![]() They are helped in this endeavor by sophisticated document analysis tools that allows for instance to spot words or patterns in images of documents. Specialists can add textual and multimedia data and metadata to digitized documents through a graphical interface that does not require technical knowledge. This software suite allows the augmentation and exploration of ancient documents of cultural interest. ![]() In this paper, we describe DocExplore, an integrated software suite centered on the handling of digitized documents with an emphasis on ancient manuscripts.
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