# Chasing Krüger's Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical & Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy

New computational techniques show how modern digital philology is changing the way we think of the transmission of medieval manuscripts through space and time. Using the notes of the classical philologist Paul Krüger, whose manuscripts were recently rediscovered in the Law Library of Congress, complex three dimensional visualization techniques will be used to show how the medieval manuscripts making up the Codex of Justinian are spatially and temporally related to each other. The talk also highlights how these new techniques give scholars the tools to postulate what the structure of missing and destroyed manuscripts might have been--changing the face of even the most traditional of the humanities, classical philology.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2012
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: Science, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688958/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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