Medieval Texts and Digital Editions: Obstacles and Opportunities

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET)

Organizer Name

James Knowles

Organizer Affiliation

North Carolina State Univ.

Presider Name

Michael Calabrese, Patricia Bart

Presider Affiliation

California State Univ.-Los Angeles, Hillsdale College

Paper Title 1

New Theory, New Editors and Readers, New Editions

Presenter 1 Name

Peter Robinson

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Saskatchewan

Paper Title 2

Visualizing Variance: New Tools to Address Old Problems

Presenter 2 Name

Fiona Somerset

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Connecticut

Paper Title 3

Virtual Editing and Piers Plowman

Presenter 3 Name

Paul A. Broyles

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Virginia

Start Date

11-5-2014 10:30 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1245

Description

The recent proliferation of digital and digitized editions of medieval texts available online poses new questions about the forms, uses, and scholarly objectives of critical texts. For this session at Kalamazoo, we invite scholars and editors engaged in digital text projects to discuss new work in any of the following areas: editorial theory and practice in digital environments; intellectual, technical, and institutional challenges posed by born-digital textual projects (along with proposed solutions); and interpretive work on medieval literature that is made possible by the availability of digital text corpora.

Jim Knowles