Nota bene : making digital marks on medieval manuscripts / Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahoney-Steel, Tamsyn, 1978- author.

Series:

Medieval interventions ; v.3.

Medieval interventions: new lights on traditional thinking ; vol. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--Criticism, Textual.

Literature, Medieval.

Criticism, Textual.

Literature, Medieval--Study and teaching.

Manuscripts, Medieval--Digitization.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Medieval--Editing.

Digital humanities.

Text processing (Computer science).

Document markup languages.

Civilization, Medieval--Research--Technological innovations.

Civilization, Medieval.

Civilization, Medieval--Research.

Technological innovations.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2018]

Summary:

We stand at the cusp of an exciting moment in digital medieval studies. The advent of ubiquitously available digitized manuscripts alongside platforms that host encoded medieval texts has democratized access to the cultural heritage of the Middle Ages, and gives us the potential for greater understanding of that era. Seen through the lens of late medieval French literature, in particular the Roman de la Rose and the works of Guillaume de Machaut, this book exhorts us to be optimistic about what we can achieve. Challenging the pessimism inherent in views that see our historical situatedness as a barrier to truly understanding the medieval era, Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel argues that digital networks of manuscript images, texts, and annotations, can not only aid us in comprehending medieval literary culture, but are, in fact, complementary to medieval modes of thought and manner in which manuscripts transmitted ideas. Using her teaching of Guillaume de Machaut and her work with the Roman de la Rose Digital Library, Mahoney-Steel envisages a future in which the digital humanities can enable us to build transhistorical relationships with our medieval objects of study.

This book argues that digital networks of manuscript images, texts, and annotations, can not only aid us in comprehending medieval literary culture, but are, in fact, complementary to medieval modes of thought and manner in which manuscripts transmitted ideas.

Contents:

Interpreting the medieval text

Encoding and decoding texts: marking-up texts for analysis

Teaching with digital annotation tools

Annotating the everted network

Envisioning an annotated environment: the Roman de la Rose digital library.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781433131387

1433131382

OCLC:

995759575

Publisher Number:

99978797860

40028446117