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.
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Statistical Analysis and the Boundaries of the Genre of Old English Prayer
- Chapter 2. If (not “Quantize, Click, and Conclude”) {Digital Methods In Medieval Studies}
- Old English: Beowulf and Blickling Homily XVII Project
- Middle English: Lexomics, Voyant, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3. Project Paradise: A Geo-Temporal Exhibit of the Hereford Map and The Book of John Mandeville
- Introduction
- Digital Mapping
- Why Compare Hereford and Mandeville?
- The Exhibit
- Mandeville’s Spatial Poetics
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 4. Ghastly Vignettes: Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede, the Ghost of Shakespeare’s Blackfriars, and the Future of the Digital Past
- The Ghost of Shakespeare’s Blackfriars
- Interlude: A Ghastly Vignette
- Excursus on Method: Building Blurry
- Great Houses Make Not Men Holy: The Mendicants in Oxford
- Conclusion: A Ghast in the Machine
- Bibliography
- Chapter 5. Content is not Context: Radical Transparency and the Acknowledgement of Informational Palimpsests in Online Display
- User Design as Theory: the File/Folder Metaphor, the Entrenchment of Ideas, and Unintended Consequences
- Actor-Network Theory and the Platform
- A Nod Towards “Radical Transparency”: Developing the Minor Works of John Lydgate Virtual Archive
- Transcription Philosophy and Method
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 6. Encoding and Decoding Machaut
- Introduction
- The Challenge of Editing Medieval Manuscripts
- Je Chante Ung Chant and the Text Encoding Initiative
- The Challenges of Digital Editing
- Guillaume de Machaut
- Intentionality and Editorial Theory
- Machaut Encoded
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 7. Of Dinosaurs and Dwarves: Moving on from mouvance in Digital Editions
- Textual Variance and Instability
- Cerquiglini’s Invariable variance
- Moving on to Middle English
- Moving Online
- Bibliography
- Chapter 8. Adam Scriveyn in Cyberspace: Loss, Labour, Ideology, and Infrastructure in Interoperable Reuse of Digital Manuscript Metadata
- Laying Foundations: Definitions for “Metadata” and “Interoperability”
- “Ther is so gret diversite in writyng of oure tonge,” Part 1: Our Unalterable Inheritance of Codicological Variance
- “Ther is so gret diversite in writyng of oure tonge,” Part 2: The Unalterable Fact of Different Metadata Standards
- Crosswalks and Transforms
- Sympathy for Adam Scriveyn: Transforming the Walters Metadata
- Curation is Not the Same as Hoarding: Lessons Learned from Parker on the Web
- The Tower of Babel in the Catalogue: e-codices and the Place of English in Digital Manuscript Studies
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 9. Digital Representations of the Provenance of Medieval Manuscripts
- Scope
- Provenance in Library Catalogues
- Event-Based Modelling of Provenance
- Beyond Conceptual Modelling
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 10. Bridging the Gap: Managing a Digital Medieval Initiative Across Disciplines and Institutions
- Shared Resources, Contributions, and Credit
- Project Andvari: A Case Study
- The Initial Steps of Project Management
- Assembling the project team
- Grant writing
- Bridging the Gap between Disciplines
- Lessons Learned: Management and Organizational Issues
- Graduate Students as Agents of Interdisciplinarity
- A Note on “Fair Trade”
- Project Management: A Neglected But Necessary Skill Set
- Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
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