ABSTRACT
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository’s digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment.
Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the implications of new technologies for future discoveries.
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|40 pages
Theory and Practice
chapter 2|8 pages
What it is to be a digitization specialist
part 2|36 pages
Materialities
chapter 8|8 pages
Pocket change
part 3|38 pages
Translation and Transmission
part 4|41 pages
Of Multimedia and the Multilingual
chapter 15|12 pages
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144 and 402
chapter 16|9 pages
Philologia and philology
part 5|57 pages
Forms of reading