{"id":471,"date":"2019-05-16T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/?page_id=471"},"modified":"2019-05-16T13:22:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:22:03","slug":"neh-supports-norman-conquest-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/spring-2019\/neh-supports-norman-conquest-project\/","title":{"rendered":"NEH Supports Norman Conquest Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_473\" class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/forward-thinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/05\/neh-sicily.jpg.4.1x.generic.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/forward-thinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/05\/neh-sicily.jpg.4.1x.generic.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"12th century cathedral in Monreale, Sicily\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">12th century cathedral in Monreale, Sicily<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>For a century after the Norman Conquest of Sicily, the Italian island flourished.<\/strong> Sicily was at the height of its power in the 12th century, and even now, hundreds of monuments built in the era \u2014 from castles to monasteries \u2014 dot the Sicilian landscape. Now Montclair State researchers are looking to document and protect them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Associate Professor of History <strong>Dawn Marie Hayes<\/strong> recently received a nearly $50,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant for an ongoing digital archival compilation of the Sicilian monuments for a project Hayes and her husband, Joe, a software engineer in the private sector, have been working on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The one-year grant for the project, titled \u201cDocumenting the Past, Triaging the Present and Assessing the Future: A Prototype for Sicily\u2019s Norman Heritage, ca. 1061-1194,\u201d supports a pilot phase that will produce an online prototype that documents the 147 monasteries known to have been built during that era. The team will provide historical and site-specific data for all of the monasteries, as well as photographic and video documentation and relevant genealogical data for the 52 surviving structures. For historian Hayes, the project has special significance. \u201cIt\u2019s important because it calls attention to a special society that was culturally rich \u2014 one where Christians, Muslims and Jews lived side by side in relative harmony over a century or so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to Hayes, while the project is rooted in medieval history, it also draws on 21st-century STEM disciplines. \u201cThe Norman Sicily Project represents a society from almost a millennium ago via cutting-edge technologies that will be connected to other data sets on the web,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Earth and Environmental Studies Acting Chair <strong>Greg Pope<\/strong> is the project\u2019s co-director and will guide the project\u2019s sustainability component.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cWe\u2019ll enter information from field visits, seismic data and, whenever possible, results from on-site sustainability assessments of the conditions of the monuments\u2019 stones and the greatest environmental threats to their survival,\u201d Hayes explains. \u201cWe\u2019re not just exploring these monuments as relics of a past age; we\u2019re also assessing their ability to endure climactic, geologic, seismic and \u2014 in some cases \u2014 volcanic threats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a century after the Norman Conquest of Sicily, the Italian island flourished. 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