Virtually Anglo-Saxon : old media, new media, and early medieval studies in the late age of print / Martin K. Foys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foys, Martin K. (Martin Kennedy)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Anglo-Saxon--Study and teaching.

Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.

Civilization, Medieval--Study and teaching.

Civilization, Medieval.

Printing.

Visual communication.

Digital media.

Virtual reality--Philosophy.

Virtual reality.

Virtual reality in higher education.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2007]

Summary:

Foys argues that early medieval culture did not favor the representational practices privileged by the modern age and that five hundred years of print culture have in effectshut off modern readers from interpretations of text and image that would have been transparent to a medieval audience. Examining print and post-print ways of reading medieval literature and art, he derives alternative models of understanding from the realm of digital media, considering pre-print expression through a range of post-print ideas and producing new and vital understandings of visionary Old English poetry, Anglo-Saxon maps of the world, 11th-century Benedictine devotional writings, medieval mathematical systems, stone sculpture of Viking settlers, and the famous Bayeux Tapestry.Building chapter upon chapter into a sustained discussion of New Media theory and medieval interpretation, Foys provides a field-defining investigation of how digital technology and expression can refine and revitalize early medieval studies.

Contents:

Introduction : "nothing like a CD-ROM"

Print and post-print realities in Anglo-Saxon studies

Anselm's hypertext

Hypertextile : closure and the missing end of the Bayeux tapestry

The virtual reality of the Anglo-Saxon mappamundi

Cyberspace, sculpture, and the revision of medieval space

Epilogue : for all practical purposes : medieval studies in a new media age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-265) and index.

ISBN:

0813030390

9780813030395

OCLC:

71348627