Digitizing medieval and early modern material culture
By: edited by Brent Nelson, University of Saskatchewan; Melissa Terras, University College London
Series: Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies -- volume 426; New technologies in medieval and Renaissance studies -- volume 3
Publisher: Iter, Inc.; ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Tempe, Arizona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9780866984744
Subjects: Material culture; Technological innovations; Digitization; Learning and scholarship; Information storage and retrieval systems; Archival materials; Humanities; Library materials; Research; Methodology; Digital libraries; Communication in learning and scholarship; Manuscripts; Document markup languages
Description: Digital technologies are changing the way in which we can understand and analyse history and its associated artefacts. The aim of this book is to encapsulate the potential that digital technologies pose for Medieval Material Culture, providing examples of leading projects worldwide which are enabling new forms of research in this area. The text aims to provide a broad overview of the type of tools now used by historians--such as text encoding, digitization, and visualization, juxtaposing this with core concerns from historians investigating particular research questions. As such, it draws together a key body of research in this area, demonstrating how digital tools and techniques can aid in changing our understanding of the past. -- Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Beyond remediation : the role of textual studies in implementing new knowledge environments / Alan Galey, Richard Cunningham, Brent Nelson, Ray Siemens, and Paul Werstine; title: The materiality of markup and the Text Encoding Initiative / James Cummings; title: More than was dreamt of in our philosophy : encoding Hamlet for the Shakespeare Quartos Archive / Judith Siefring and Pip Willcox; title: Digitizing non-linear texts in TEI P5 : the case of the early modern reversed manuscript / Angus Vine and Sebastiaan Verweij; title: Palaeography and the "virtual library" of manuscripts / Peter A. Stokes; title: A probabilistic analysis of a Middle English text / Jacob Thaisen; title: The digitization of bookbindings / Athanasios Velios and Nicholas Pickwoad; title: Digitizing collection, composition, and product : tracking the work of Little Gidding / Paul Dyck and Ryan Rempel, with Stuart Williams; title: Vexed impressions : towards a digital archive of broadside ballad illustrations / Patricia Fumerton, Carl Stahmer, Kris McAbee, and Megan Palmer Brown; title: A virtual museum or e-research? : British printed images to 1700 and the digitization of early modern prints / Stephen Pigney and Katherine Hunt; title: Rose tools : a medieval manuscript text-image annotation project / Christine McWebb and Diane Jakacki; title: Digitization of maps and atlases and the use of analytical bibliography / Wouter Bracke, Gérard Bouvin, and Benoît Pigeon; title: Between text and image : digital renderings of a late medieval city / Paul Vetch, Catherine Clarke, and Keith Lilley; title: Virtual reality for humanities scholarship / Lisa M. Snyder; title: Simulating splendour : visual modelling of historical jewellery research / David Humphrey; title: Coinage, digitization and the world-wide web : numismatics and the COINS Project / Jonathan Jarrett, Sebastian Zambanini, Reinhard Hüber-Mork, and Achille Felicetti.