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Digital Medieval Studies—Practice and Preservation
Edited by Laura K. Morreale and Sean Gilsdorf
Series: Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities
128 Pages, Trim size: 6 x 9 in
- Hardcover
- 9781641894463
- Published: June 2022
In the last decade, the terms “digital scholarship” and “digital humanities” have become commonplace in academia, spurring the creation of fellowships, research centres, and scholarly journals. What, however, does this “digital turn” mean for how you do scholarship as a medievalist? While many of us would never describe ourselves as “DH people,” computer-based tools and resources are central to the work we do every day in offices, libraries, and classrooms. This volume highlights the exciting ways digital methods are expanding and re-defining how we understand, represent, and teach the Middle Ages, and provides a new model for how this work is catalogued and reused within the scholarly community. The work of its contributors offers valuable insights into how “the digital” continues to shape the questions medievalists ask and the ways they answer them, but also into how those questions and answers can lead to new tools, approaches, and points of reference within the field of digital humanities itself.
Introduction: The Medievalist, Digital Edition, by Laura K. Morreale and Sean Gilsdorf
Chapter 1. Beginnings: The Labyrinth Medieval Studies Website, by Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine
Chapter 2. New Approaches to Old Questions: Digital Technology, Sigillography, and DIGISIG, by John McEwan
Chapter 3. Corpus Synodalium: Medieval Canon Law in a Digital Age, by Rowan Dorin
Chapter 4. Teaching Constantinople as a (Pixelated) Palimpsest, by J. W. Torgerson
Chapter 5. Life on—and off—the Continuum, by Lisa Fagin Davis
Appendix: Permanent Links to the Catalogued Assets of Profiled Projects
Bibliography
Index
Laura Morreale is an Independent Scholar whose research addresses late medieval Italy and the Mediterranean world. She has chaired the Medieval Academy of America’s Committee on Digital Humanities, and is Editor-in-Chief of Digital Medievalist.
Sean Gilsdorf is Lecturer on Medieval Studies at Harvard University. His research addresses the religious and political history of the early Middle Ages. He is the editor (with Laura Morreale) of Digital Medieval Studies—Practice and Preservation (Arc Humanities Press, 2022).
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
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