Dr Igor Medić, a project FEMIGLA associate, participated in the international scientific conference Edition and Interpretation: The 21st Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS 2026), held from 28 to 30 May 2026 at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.

The European Society for Textual Scholarship organises an international scientific conference each year in a different location, each time under a new overarching theme. This year, the central research issues concerned the relationship between different editions and the interpretation of texts.

Igor Medić gave a presentation entitled Fragmented Corpus in Modern Editions: Recontextualising The Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Croatian Petris Miscellany (1468), in which he presented the Croatian Glagolitic corpus of the Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary and their previous research and editions. He also proposed the possibility of interpreting individual Marian miracles scattered throughout the Petris Miscellany within the context of the surrounding texts in the codex. He illustrated this through a mutual interpretation of the well-known miracle of a nun who gouges out her own eyes to avoid an unwanted marriage, alongside a previously unexplored miscellany story about a gardener who almost loses his leg due to miserliness – a popular medieval fable originating from the Vitae Patrum collection, i.e., Verba Seniorum.

As part of the conference, two workshops were also organised. The first, a full-day workshop held on 27 May, was led by Dr Chiara Martignano from the University of Padua, who presented the possibilities of preparing critical editions using the EVT3 (Edition Visualization Technology) software. The second, a shorter workshop dedicated to methods for presenting differences between text versions, was held on 29 May by members of the VIDIT (Visualizing and Investigating Differences in Texts) working group. Igor Medić participated in both workshops.