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.
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