IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 129: New Work in Digital Medieval Studies: Visualization and Interpretation
Monday 13 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Committee on Electronic Resources, Medieval Academy of America |
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| Organiser: | Dorothy Carr Porter, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Peter A. Stokes, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 129-a | Race and Ethnicity in the Medieval Archive: The Roman de la Rose Digital Library (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 129-b | The St Patrick's Confessio Hypertext Stack (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 129-c | Visualizing the Evidence of Scribal Practices in Manuscripts of the B version of Piers Plowman (Language: English) |
| Abstract | This session will introduce three new projects in digital medieval studies that use technology to visualize information in order to help scholars interpret it. Altschul's presents on how the Roman de la Rose Digital Library can be used to investigate issues of race and ethnicity found in the Rose manuscripts. Fischer presents the Saint Patrick's Confessio Hypertext Stack, a new endeavour to present different aspects of St Patrick's work at various levels, closely interlinked passage by passage. Lyman presents results obtained by edition-display software that plots distributions of manuscript features detected by regular expression searches conducted against the text and markup of documentary editions produced by the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. |