Janne van der Loop MA (Hons)
Medievalist & Book historian
PhD-Project: Navigating through text.
In my PhD-project Navigating through text. On reading practices and the evolution of textual articulation and navigational aids in Justinian's Institutiones, I am studying the development of mise-en-page throughout the 6th to the 16th century and the way this text was read.
(Image: Bamberg SB: Ms. Jur. 1)
PhD submitted: Nov. 6th, 2025
Publications
Most recent publications:
Schlicht, Helene, Janne van der Loop, Christian Mathieu, Nikolaus Weichselbaumer, und Stephanie Jacobs. „Verborgene Schätze der deutschen Schriftkultur. Das typographische Kulturerbe Deutschlands im Industriezeitalter / Ein Pilotvorhaben zur Massendigitalisierung historischer Schriftproben (1820-2000)“. Buch und Bibliothek: Forum Bibliothek und Information 12/2025-01/2026 (2025): 604–7.
Seuret, Mathias, Janne van der Loop, Nikolaus Weichselbaumer, Martin Mayr, Anguelos Nikolaou, and Vincent Christlein, ‘Fine-Grained Font Groups and Transcriptions’ (Zenodo, 2025), doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7614685 (Dataset)
Upcoming talks
Neue Berufe, alte Ordnung? Ein Forschungsvorhaben zur sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Integration neuer Handwerke im spätmittelalterlichen Basel
June 2nd, 16:15h, Mainzer Gespräche. Neues aus der Landesgeschichte und Spätmittelalter. JGU Mainz.
Navigating Change: Manuscript Traditions and Printed Innovations in the Institutiones Iustiniani.
June 25, 09:15h, ‘Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy. Dublin.
Studying Textual articulation and navigational aids: A quantitative approach for long durée studies.
July 8th, 09:00h, IMC Leeds.
Awards
IAPR Best poster award 2023 for Combining OCR Models for Reading Early Modern Books.
