Digital Humanities: The Franco-Italian Huon d'Auvergne, an NEH-Supported Digital Edition and Translation Project (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch

Organizer Name

Leslie Zarker Morgan

Organizer Affiliation

Loyola Univ. Maryland

Presider Name

Mercedes Vaquero

Presider Affiliation

Brown Univ.

Paper Title 1

Herding Colleagues: Coordinating an International Multilingual Mixed Languages Digital Edition

Presenter 1 Name

Leslie Zarker Morgan

Paper Title 2

The Frontier between French and Italian Is the Raised Dot

Presenter 2 Name

Stephen Patrick McCormick

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Washington and Lee Univ.

Paper Title 3

Reporting from the Trenches: A French Medievalist Translating Franco-Italian

Presenter 3 Name

Shira Schwam-Baird

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of North Florida

Start Date

15-5-2015 10:00 AM

Session Location

Fetzer 1060

Description

"Huon d’Auvergne" is the last major unedited Franco-Italian romance epic, dated to 1341 in the first manuscript and 1441 in the last. At over 12,000 lines long, in three different versions with an additional fragment, in a gamut of language running from close to Old French through mixed French and Italian to Italian, it has so far resisted editing. A team of six international collaborators has received an NEH grant for an on-line edition and will be at the half-way point for the 2015 International Medieval Conference. We propose to present briefly our different pieces of the project and, we hope, get feedback from others present, who have editing and translating experience. We also hope to hear what other scholars might find most useful about our site, since actually putting the edition and translation on line will begin shortly after the presentation.

Mercedes Vaquero and Leslie Zarker Morgan