DR. CHRIS L. NIGHMAN
I'm a Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Waterloo, Ontario, where I have taught courses on medieval, renaissance and early modern Europe since 1997. My graduate studies were pursued at the University of Toronto, where I received my MA in History in 1990 and my PhD in History in 1996...
RECENT & ONGOING RESEARCH
In June 2014 I delivered an invited research presentation at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania, entitled “Digital florilegia: the Manipulus florum and Compendium moralium notabilium projects...and beyond”.
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Launched in 2015 and completed in June 2022, the Chrysostomus Latinus in Iohannem Online (CLIO) Project provides open access transcriptions of three Latin translations, and a critical edition of a fourth translation, of John Chrysostom's 88 Greek homilies on the Gospel of John. For more information, see the project website: https://clioproject.net.
Since Fall 2019, I've been working on a companion project, the Chrysostomus Latinus in Mattheum Online (CLIMO) Project, for which I received internal seed funding in 2021 to support its launch:
https://climo-project.wlu.ca. I expect to resume work on the CLIMO Project in 2025.
In 2021 I was awarded a five-year grant to develop new and enhance existing open access resources for the study of medieval Latin florilegia for the "Digital Auctores Project."
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In May 2014 I organized a bilingual colloquium at Wilfrid Laurier University on the construction and reception of Thomas of Ireland's Manipulus florum for a group of Canadian and international scholars, with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Laurier's Office of Research Services.
The proceedings of this meeting, which I co-edited with Dr. Jacqueline Hamesse (U. Louvain) and Dr. Maria Jose Mũnoz Jiménez (U. Madrid), were published in 2019 by PIMS Publishers. For more information, visit: https://pims.ca/publication/isbn-978-0-88844-832-3/.