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"Seeing together: an innovative and collaborative multispectral imaging initiative". with Heather Wacha, Evan Gatti, Catherine Albers Morris, Kalani Craig. Studi Francesi. Vol 26, September 2025, p. 347-356.
"Reading the end of Fled Bricrenn: Multispectral Imaging applied to f. 9v of Leiden MS VLQ 7." with Stam, Nike, Catherine Albers-Morris, and Gregory Heyworth. Studia Celtica Fennica 21, no. 1 (2025): 1-25.
"Il Rotolo con Atti degli Aspostoli e le pergemene didattiche dell'Archivio Capitolare" / "The Scroll with Acts of the Apostles and the didactic pachments of the Capitular Archive" with Evan A. Gatti, Catherine Albers-Morris, Heather Wacha, and Silvia Faccin. Special Issue of Arte Cristiana ed. by Saverio Lomartire (2025).
"Heavenward Gaze, Earthly Ambitions: The Political Commentary of the Vercelli Map's Ostrich." Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 8, no. 4 (2023): 80-116.
"Fragments under the Lens: A Case Study of Multispectral versus Hyperspectral Imaging for Manuscript Recovery” with Alexander J. Zawacki, Tania Kleynhans, Gregory Heyworth, Kyle Ann Huskin, and David Messinger. Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 12, no. 1 (2023): 123-143.
”Digital Archives and Damaged Texts: capturing, processing, and sharing multispectral image data.” DARK ARCHIVES Volume I Voyages into the Medieval Unread and Unreadable, 2019-2021, 2023
“Commentary Article on the Cotton Map.” Bloomsbury Medieval Studies , 2022
“Making Light Work: Manuscripts and Multispectral Imaging”. Journal of the Early Books Society, 2020
Davies, Helen. "Multispectral imaging of the Vercelli mappamundi: a progress report." Imago Mundi 72, no. 2 (2020): 181-191.
“Collaboration and Annotation: Pelagios, Recogito and Multispectral Imaging of Cultural Heritage Objects”. EuropeanaTech Insight, 2019.
“Digital Mapping, Spectral Imaging and Medieval Mappae Mundi”. A Critical Companion to English Mappae Mundi of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, 2019
“Hiberno-Manx Coins in the Irish Sea”.The Medieval Cultures of the Irish Sea and the North Sea: Manannán and his Neighbors, 2019
Videntes
A new multispectral imaging and cultural heritage recovery effort centered on the archive in Vercelli, Italy.
Episode 11: Multispectral Imaging
Coding Codices Podcast , 2022. In this episode Katie Albers-Morris, Helen Davies, and Alex Zawacki talk about recovering palimpsests and erased texts with multispectral imaging.
Interview with Dr. Jackson Crawford
Professor Helen Davies answers questions about medieval manuscripts and maps from Patreon supporters of Jackson Crawford in a Patreon-exclusive Zoom conversation held live on June 5, 2022
Medieval Maps and Mapping Resources
Bibliography of Medieval Mapping Resources
A Brief Introduction to Medieval Maps
Middle Ages for Educators , 2020. Introductory video to medieval maps aimed at being a resource for educators.
The Lazarus PRoject
A multispectral imaging and cultural heritage imaging initiative based out of the University of Rochester.