While the tale of Roberto Busa and the Index Thomisticus has become an origin myth for Digital Medieval Studies, less attention has been paid to the critical role of the World Wide Web as a platform and impetus for this digital turn. This volume focuses on early Medieval Studies research created with, operating through, and dependent upon the internet itself, profiling ground-breaking projects that define the genres of internet-based scholarship we now take for granted, including sourcebooks, searchable databases, digital editions and corpora, and born-digital medieval scholarship. The collection reveals how internet-based products rely upon and support a more collaborative model of research, teaching, and learning in Medieval Studies than the more individualistic, discrete one that defined earlier work in the field.
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Introduction. Digital Medieval Studies: Pasts, Presents, Futures, by Laura K. Morreale and Sean Gilsdorf
Chapter 1. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, by Paul Halsall and Maryanne Kowaleski
Chapter 2. MedArt: Images of Medieval Art and Architecture and the Creation of the World Wide Web, by Alison Langmead and Alison Stones
Chapter 3. The Medieval Review, by Deborah M. Deliyannis and James J. O'Donnell
Chapter 4. Mapping Gothic: An Essay, by Stephen Murray and Stefaan Van Liefferinge
Chapter 5. A History of the Electronic Canterbury Tales, by Daniel T. Kline
Chapter 6. Medievalists.net: A Personal History, by Peter Konieczny, with Sandra Alvarez and Danièle Cybulskie
Chapter 7. Digital Scriptorium: Keeping Up with the Times, by Debra Taylor Cashion and Lynn Ransom
Chapter 8. When New Philology Met the Internet: A Recollection, by Stephen G. Nichols
Index
About the Author :
Sean Gilsdorf is Lecturer on Medieval Studies at Harvard University. His research addresses the religious and political history of the early Middle Ages. He is the editor (with Laura Morreale) of Digital Medieval Studies—Practice and Preservation (Arc Humanities Press, 2022).
Laura Morreale is an Independent Scholar whose research addresses late medieval Italy and the Mediterranean world. She has chaired the Medieval Academy of America’s Committee on Digital Humanities, and is Editor-in-Chief of Digital Medievalist.
