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 des matières :
1. Introduction – Benjamin Albritton and Elaine Treharne
Part I. Theory and Practice
2. What it is to be a Digitization Specialist: Chasing Medieval Materials in a Sea of Pixels – Astrid J. Smith
3. From the Divine to the Digital: Digitization as Resurrection and reconstruction – Keri Thomas
4. A Note on Technology and Functionality in Digital Manuscript Studies – Abigail G. Robertson
5. Ways of Seeing Manuscripts: Exploring Parker 2.0 – Andrew Prescott
Part II. Materialities
6. A Note on Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 210 – Orietta Da Rold
7. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 367 – Peter A. Stokes
Part II: A Study in (Digital) Codicology
8. Pocket Change: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 383 and the Value of the Virtual Object – Anya Adair
9. Rolling with It: Navigating Absence in the Digital Realm – Siân Echard
Part III. Translation and Transmission
10. ‘Glocal’ Matters: The Gospels of St Augustine as a Codex in Translation – Mateusz Fafinski
11. Encyclopaedic Notes in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 320 – John J. Gallagher
12. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 322: Tradition and Transmission – David F. Johnson
13. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 41 and 286: Digitization as Translation – Sharon M. Rowley
Part IV. Of Multimedia and the Multilingual
14. Fragmentation and Wholeness in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 16 – A. Joseph McMullen
15. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 144 and 402: Mercian Intellectual Culture in pre-Conquest England (and beyond) – Lindy Brady
16. Philologia and Philology: Allegory, Multilingualism and the Corpus Martianus Capella – Elizabeth Boyle
17. Remediation and Multilingualism in Corpus Christi College, 402 – Carla María Thomas
Part V. Forms of Reading
18. Living with Books in Early Medieval England: Solomon and Saturn, Bibliophilia, and the Globalist Red Book of Darley – Erica Weaver
19. Severed Heads and Sutured Skins – Catherine E. Karko
20. Books Consumed, Books Multiplied: Martianus Capella, Ælfric’s Homilies, and the International Image Interoperability Framework – Alexandra Bolintineanu
21. Making a Home for Manuscripts on the Internet – Michelle R. Warren
Informations pratiques :
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age, éd. Benjamin Albritton, Georgia Henley, Elaine Treharne, Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9780367426613 Published July 15, 2020 by Routledge 234 Pages – 22 B/W Illustrations. Prix : 96 £.
Source : Routledge & RMBLF