ABSTRACT
The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) is a British Academy research project hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. From its inception in 1988, the aim of CRSBI has been the very same need to record all Romanesque stone sculpture executed between the middle of the eleventh and the end of the twelfth centuries that has survived in the British Isles and in Ireland. The defining impact that the CRSBI is likely to have on what has been termed 'corpus scholarship' is interdisciplinary. In recent decades, corpus scholarship has been informed by methodological and theoretical developments in linguistics. As with many other electronic resources, the online Corpus could benefit greatly from the integration of a variety of new digital methodologies to its material. The use of digital tools borrowed from corpus-based linguistics and other disciplines is not without impact on the traditional typologies widely used by mainstream scholarship in the history of art.
