New Models of Presentation of Medieval Texts

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Canterbury Tales Project

Organizer Name

Peter Robinson

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Saskatchewan

Presider Name

TBD

Paper Title 1

Digital Tools for Manuscript Study: Collation and The Canterbury Tales

Presenter 1 Name

Alexandra Gillespie

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Toronto

Paper Title 2

Adapting Chaucer for Modern Media

Presenter 2 Name

Kyle Dase

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Saskatchewan

Paper Title 3

New Media, New Editions, New Readers

Presenter 3 Name

Barbara Bordalejo

Presenter 3 Affiliation

KU Leuven

Start Date

11-5-2017 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1330

Description

This session will focus on the challenges and opportunies opened up by the digital turn. Editions may now take many forms beside traditional print, ranging from large online collections of unmediated manuscript images to sophisticated and complex editions of single manuscripts. At the same time, new life is being given to live performances of medieval texts through their appearance on YouTube, in tablets and in apps, and there have been notable experiments with games based (albeit loosely) on medieval texts. Again, while our focus is on the Canterbury Tales and Chaucer we invite papers exploring these questions in relation to any medieval text.

Peter Robinson