Digital Medieval Studies—Practice and Preservation

Morreale and Gilsdorf’s Digital Medieval Studies: Practice and Preservation is a [...] valuable resource for all those interested in Digital Humanities and how to use them to create innovative ways of learning, teaching, and conducting research.

~Ana Rita Martins, Limina 28, no. 2 (2023): 83-84

Digital Medieval Studies is a short, 121-page, edited collection that makes an argument for using a specific methodology, known as the digital documentation process (DDP), to document digital schol- arly projects in medieval studies. Although it is now common for me- dievalists to preserve public GitHub repositories associated with their digital projects, DDP is a more structured approach aimed at document- ing projects narratively in a form accessible to scholars who are not versed in digital methodologies, including those who are involved in hiring and tenure decisions. Medievalists who have done at least some digital work are the book’s intended audience, and its primary agenda is to encourage them to preserve their projects in what, the contributors hope, will become a comprehensive, persistent, corpus of digital medi- eval scholarship.

~Paul Evans, Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 12, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 147-49