Digital Codicology : Medieval Books and Modern Labor / Bridget Whearty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whearty, Bridget, author.

Series:

Text technologies.

Stanford Text Technologies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Medieval--Digitization--Case studies.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Codicology--Technological innovations--Case studies.

Codicology.

Digital humanities--Case studies.

Digital humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever-thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed how we connect with the medieval past, we understand very little about what these digital objects really are. We rarely consider how they are made or who makes them. This case study-rich book demystifies digitization, revealing what it's like to remake medieval books online and connecting modern digital manuscripts to their much longer media history, from print, to photography, to the rise of the internet.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Note on Manuscript Designations

Illustrations and Tables

Preface: Vanishing Act

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION Embodied Books, Disembodied Labor

1 Scriptorium 2.0

2 Value and Visibility

3 Digital Incunables

4 Interoperable Metadata and Failing toward the Future

CODA. Glitch

Appendix: Doing Digital Codicology

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503634190

1503634191

OCLC:

1343956163