ABSTRACT

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) was created and Harold Short arrived in 1988. Collaboration soon followed: colleagues, including Susan Kruse in CCH and the author in the Department of History, co-taught an optional introductory computing course to History undergraduates. The author in no position to say whether the dedication of databases is customary in digital humanities, but PASE Domesday has been dedicated to Nicholas Brooks and Ann Williams. These projects, collectively known as PASE, have been hailed as major achievements in humanities computing and Anglo-Saxon studies. The two senior researchers developed significant sub-areas of their own: David on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Asser's Life of Alfred; Francesca on saints' Lives, from Cuthbert's interestingly different two, and those of Anglo-Saxons on the Continent, in the eighth century, through to those of the tenth-century reformers, and on correspondence between the papacy and English churchmen and kings. PASE's innovations are not exemplary intended products of collaboration in the digital humanities.