Format:
1 online resource (264 pages)
ISBN:
9781641891936
Series Statement:
Medieval Media Cultures Ser.
Content:
A collection of essays examining 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.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1 Statistical Analysis and the Boundaries of the Genre of Old English Prayer -- Bibliography -- 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... -- 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... -- 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781641891929
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781641891929
Language:
English
