Group description
The Research Group, which obtained a mention of Excellence, was created in 2007 and is currently composed of six researchers from the Latin Philology Area of the UCM. The main goal of research is the recovery, edition and analysis of the florilegia and collections of exempla (medieval manuscripts), as well as anthologies (Renaissance editions), with extracts from classical authors, especially those preserved in Spanish libraries.
The Research Group, backed by numerous archievements, has consolidated itself as a national and international benchmark in this field of study. It has carried out eight projects financed by the DGCYT, led by María José Muñoz Jiménez (Medieval Latin Anthologies preserved in Spain) and Patricia Cañizares Ferriz (Medieval Latin Exempla preserved in Spain, ELME Project http://www.proyectoelme.com).
Within the framework of the investigations of the Research Group, more than 150 codices with extracts from classical, Christian, medieval, and Renaissance authors have been identified, as well as almost 100 manuscripts with exempla, and more than 150 scientific publications have been published. The creation and development of digital tools in OpenAccess that collect research archievements mean the opening of new lines of investigation, or of potentiation of the existing ones in new registers, and involve an important progress for the digital humanism studies in the field of Classical Philology.