Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript
repository's digital presence and poses timely questions about studying
books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment.
Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international
scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and
interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on
the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval
manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring
the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their
contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives
including production, materiality, and reception. In addition, the
volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of analysis for the
study of the relationship between texts and their physical contexts,
while centring on an appreciation of the opportunities and challenges
effected by the digital representation of a tangible object. Approaches
extend from the codicological, palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural
to considerations of reader reception, image production, and the
implications of new technologies for future discoveries.
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age advances the debate in
manuscript studies about the role of digital and computational sources
and tools. As such, the book will appeal to scholars and students
working in the disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies,
Literary Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History.
