Meeting the Medieval in a Digital World

Published by ARC Humanities Press 2018

Meeting the Medieval in a Digital World

Edited by: Matthew Evan Davis , Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel and Ece Turnator

In the series Medieval Media Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781641891936

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About this book

This book looks at the intersection between medieval studies and digital humanities, confronting how medievalists negotiate the “virtual divide” between the cultural artefacts that they study and the digital means by which they address those artefacts. The essays come from medievalists who have created digital resources or applied digital tools and methodologies in their scholarship. Text encoding and analysis, data modeling and provenance, and 3D design are all discussed as they apply to western European medieval literature, history, art history, and architecture.

The volume examines the importance of combining the use of digital tools and methodologies with traditional close reading techniques and explores the physicality of the medieval manuscript and its digital analogue. Within the framework of digital humanities the book covers a host of significant issues that the academy and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) institutions face together, such as differences in models of information organization, metadata standards, and the "lossiness" of the connections between those standards.

Author / Editor information

Davis Matthew Evan :

Matthew Evan Davis currently serves as a postdoctoral fellow with the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship at McMaster University. His digital research focuses on the “thingness” of digital presentation and the ways that digital tools and methods serve as shadow theories. His medieval scholarship focuses on fifteenth and early-sixteenth century medieval drama, hagiography, and cultural transmission through translation and reception.Mahoney-Steel Tamsyn :

Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel is the Digital Scholarship Specialist for the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. She also teaches courses on the digital humanities for the Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs.Turnator Ece :

Ece Turnator, a PhD in Byzantine studies, worked on multiple digital projects and taught in the recent past. She is currently the Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Matthew Evan Davis, Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel and Ece Turnator Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE GENRE OF OLD ENGLISH PRAYER William H. Smith and Charles L. Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter 2. IF (NOT “QUANTIZE, CLICK, AND CONCLUDE”) {DIGITAL METHODS IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES} Katayoun Torabi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 3. PROJECT PARADISE: A GEO- TEMPORAL EXHIBIT OF THE HEREFORD MAP AND THE BOOK OF JOHN MANDEVILLE Alexandra Bolintineanu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 4. GHASTLY VIGNETTES: PIERCE THE PLOUGHMAN’S CREDE, THE GHOST OF SHAKESPEARE’S BLACKFRIARS, AND THE FUTURE OF THE DIGITAL PAST Jim Knowles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Chapter 5. CONTENT IS NOT CONTEXT: RADICAL TRANSPARENCY AND THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF INFORMATIONAL PALIMPSESTS IN ONLINE DISPLAY Matthew Evan Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 6. ENCODING AND DECODING MACHAUT Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 7. OF DINOSAURS AND DWARVES: MOVING ON FROM MOUVANCE IN DIGITAL EDITIONS Timothy L. Stinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 8. ADAM SCRIVEYN IN CYBERSPACE: LOSS, LABOUR, IDEOLOGY, AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN INTEROPERABLE REUSE OF DIGITAL MANUSCRIPT METADATA Bridget Whearty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter 9. DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PROVENANCE OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS Toby Burrows Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Chapter 10. BRIDGING THE GAP: MANAGING A DIGITAL MEDIEVAL INITIATIVE ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND INSTITUTIONS Joseph Koivisto, Lilla Kopár and Nancy L. Wicker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241

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Language: English
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 262
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 48
- Tables: 15
- Other: 47 b&w images, 15 tables (contributors ideally would like 7 of those images to be in color, but no funding for it)
Keywords: Digital Humanities; medieval studies; collaborative research

eBook

Published: October 31, 2018
ISBN: 9781641891936