Artificial Intelligence and Medieval History Research

Applications, Challenges and Possibilities

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59616/cehd.v1i8.2269

Keywords:

Medieval History, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Humanities, Historical Sources, Epistemology

Abstract

This article analyzes the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medieval research as an epistemological event that reconfigures historiographical practices. It argues that the algorithmic opacity (“black box”) of AI generates a “crisis of justification,” challenging the historian’s traditional reasoning. The analysis of applications such as Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) highlights the need for a new “source criticism 2.0,” which assesses both the document and the computational process. It concludes that the historian’s craft is expanding: the researcher must also become a “critic of the instrument,” applying hermeneutic rigor to the technology itself to ensure a reflexive and relevant digital historiography.

Author Biographies

Saymon da Silva Siqueira, Universidade Federal de Goiás

Doutorando em História pela Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), com pesquisa em História Medieval Ibérica no grupo de pesquisa "Península Ibérica: da Antiguidade Tardia à Reconquista". Possui Mestrado em História Ibérica pela Universidade Federal de Alfenas (UNIFAL-MG) e especialização em Metodologias do Ensino de História pela Faculdade Metropolitana do Estado de São Paulo (FAMEESP). Graduado em História pela Universidade Federal de Alfenas (UNIFAL-MG) e em Pedagogia pela Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE). Foi bolsista do Programa Institucional de Residência Pedagógica (PIRP), bolsista CNPq do Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação Científica (PIBIC) e bolsista do Programa de Iniciação à Docência (PIBID). Possui experiência como professor de Ensino Fundamental e Médio pela Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo.

Adriana Vidotte, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)

Possui graduação em História [Assis] pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1993), mestrado em História pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1999) e doutorado em História pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2005). Atualmente é professora associada da Universidade Federal de Goiás. Tem experiência na área de História, com ênfase em História Medieval, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Idade Média e História Ibérica.

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2025-09-15

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Siqueira, S. da S., & Vidotte, A. (2025). Artificial Intelligence and Medieval History Research: Applications, Challenges and Possibilities. Convergências: Estudos Em Humanidades Digitais, 1(8), 235–250. https://doi.org/10.59616/cehd.v1i8.2269

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Vol. 1 No. 8 (2025): DOSSIÊ - HUMANIDADES DIGITAIS E INTELIGÊNCIA ARTIFICIAL

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