Estelle Guéville

Estelle Guéville is a historian and digital humanist specializing in medieval manuscript cultures, women religious, and computational approaches to textual artefacts.  Her research interests include the qualitative and quantitative study of manuscripts, as well as questions of authorship, attribution and copy.

She holds a B.A. in History, a B.A. in Art History and an M.A. in History from Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She is currently pursuing her PhD at Yale University, is Associate Researcher at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Visiting Researcher at the LaMOP (Université Paris 1). Before joining Yale’s PhD program in Medieval Studies, she worked as a curator for several cultural institutions in France and the Gulf.

Her doctoral research reconstructs the first large-scale dataset of female scribal production in Christian Europe before 1600, integrating codicology, paleography, and computational analysis to illuminate the scribal agency, literacy, devotional and liturgical contributions of premodern women. 

She is also the co-director of the Paris Bible Project and co-authored the book “Medieval Manuscripts and the Computational Humanities: Big Data, Scribes, and the “Paris Bible”” whith Dr. David J. Wrisley  in which they show how AI-driven and computational techniques can help better understand questions of authorship, textuality, and scribal attribution. More broadly, her work advances data-driven approaches to medieval book cultures and the creation of open, interoperable resources for the study of premodern textuality. 

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