This book collect the papers of a conference held at Nancy on the 9th and 10th of June 2016 on the digitization of medieval sources. These papers deal not only with technical issues but also with methodological questions raised by the growing importance of digital humanities for medievalists.

While the essays included in the volume cover domains ranging from methodology and (the history of) historiography, over archaeology and epigraphy, to politics and religion, they all resort under the main theme of ‘the past as present’.

An in-depth sociocultural analysis of Roman senatorial arbitration as a political mediation tool in the second century BC