A Guide to Digital Medieval Studies in North America

This review article sets out to account for the role Digital Humanities plays in the editing of medieval texts in projects of Canadian and American digital medievalists. This study surveys the most important developments and trends in the last 15 years of digital text editing. Specific North America...

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Main Author: Stephen P. McCormick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil 2016-01-01
Series:Perspectives Médiévales
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/peme/9655
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Summary:This review article sets out to account for the role Digital Humanities plays in the editing of medieval texts in projects of Canadian and American digital medievalists. This study surveys the most important developments and trends in the last 15 years of digital text editing. Specific North American projects are profiled to examine how new methods and techniques are deployed. These projects include The Roman de la Rose Digital Library, John Hopkins University; The Princeton Charrette Project, Princeton University; The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, University of Virginia; and The Cantus Database, University of Waterloo. This survey studies the advantages that digital text editing brings to both medievalists and the general public.
ISSN:2262-5534