Dig. Humanities - Medieval Lit

1 Credit · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Work in Digital Humanities is changing the nature of scholarly editing. In Medieval Studies, the changes have been particularly striking because the textual and visual contents of manuscripts held in libraries around the world can be made accessible and become integral parts of new editions that are useful not only to expert researchers, but also to students in and out of the classroom. One of the signal strengths of digital editions is their capacity to be more than one kind of edition, that is, to offer different modalities of reading and interaction geared toward varied audiences. Moreover, digital editions are never “finished” in the traditional sense of book editing. Rather, they are open to indefinite collaboration, expansion, and refinement as the state of scholarship and digital tools evolve. This course introduces basic issues of textual editing, and the theories and methods of digital editing, with a focus on editing medieval texts. Students will engage in hands-on editing projects.