12 research outputs found
The End of Digital Humanities and the Future of Manuscript Studies
We are standing at the edge of a major transformation in manuscript studies.
The proliferation of digital surrogates, Digital Humanities analyses and the
rise of new scientific analytical technologies, all provide hitherto unknown,
and unknowable, information. This article looks at how the field can best
integrate these transformations. It argues that any separation between Digital
Humanities, heritage science, and manuscript studies is becoming artificial.
Concentrating on training programmes for advanced students as a way of
reimagining the field, it provides concrete advice for the future of manuscript
studies.Comment: 5 figures to be provided separatel
Mediations of the Bible in Late Medieval England.
PhDDirect access to the Bible was the exception rather than the rule in medieval Europe.
Limitations imposed by cost, sacrality and degrees of literacy determined people's
ability to own or consult the Bible. The multitude of events and objects, which offered
mediated access to the Bible, stand at the core of the dissertation. From liturgy and
sermons to church murals and ornate Gospel Books, a mediated biblical world-view was
presented to medieval audiences. A close analysis of these media reveals that, although
relying on the Bible as a source of authority, its language and narrative were altered in
an attempt to make it palatable and effective to medieval audiences. Analyses of
specific test cases, such as Palm Sunday processions and Advent sermons, reveal a
constant clerical effort of displaying the Bible and its narratives in visual, vernacular
and performative ways.
The Bible can never be divorced from its physical form and shape. Through an
extensive survey of biblical manuscripts, their layout and additions, an inner-biblical
hierarchy unfolds, in which the book of Psalms took precedence. This reflects not only
the reception of the Psalms, but also the place of these manuscripts at the junction
between preaching and liturgy. Attitudes towards biblical manuscripts, and especially
gospel books, supply additional evidence for use and provenance of Bibles. An
examination of veneration of the Bible in civic and ecclesiastical rituals, from the
Ordinary of the Mass to oaths in courts of law, leads to a reevaluation of Bibles and
gospel books. The dissertation leads to a new understanding of the Bible within the late
medieval sacrede conomy. It shows how ritual behaviour, content and appearancew ere
intertwined to present a complex notion of the Bible, which has endured until
modernity
Old Light on New Media: Medieval Practices in the Digital Age
This essay offers an insight into the way digital editions of medieval texts can be employed to replicate the medieval reading experience. Awareness of the characteristic features of medieval textuality, exemplified through select late medieval texts, can help in developing increasingly flexible editorial models, which are more consistent with medieval reading practices than current editions. Editions, transformed from single textual occurrences into fluid, communal, and unfolding processes, can uncover a complex notion of medieval hypertextuality by linking texts, images, and tunes. They can then even trace the reception of a given text. As readers are empowered to zoom in and out specific textual components, of manuscript witnesses, of families and printed editions, digital editions can present individual witnesses alongside editorial apparatuses and thus bridge the gap between the Old and the New Philology
New Technologies, Training Initiatives and the Future of Manuscript Studies
We are standing at the edge of a major transformation in manuscript studies.Digital surrogates, Digital Humanities analyses and the rise of new scientificanalytical technologies proliferate across universities, libraries and museums.They change the way we consult, research and disseminate historical manuscriptsto reveal hitherto unknown, and unknowable, information. This article looks athow the field can best integrate these transformations. Concentrating ontraining programmes for advanced students as a way of reimagining the field, itprovides concrete advice for the future of manuscript studies, arguing that theexistence of manuscript studies as removed from Digital Humanities and heritagescience is becoming more and more artificial and detrimental to the future ofthe field.Comment: 5 figure
The material text in Wycliffite biblical scholarship. Inscription and sacred truth. By David Lavinsky. Pp. xiv + 280 incl. 17 ills. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2017. £65. 978 1 78327 254 9
New Technologies, Training Initiatives and the Future of Manuscript Studies
We are standing at the edge of a major transformation in manuscript studies.
Digital surrogates, Digital Humanities analyses and the rise of new scientific
analytical technologies proliferate across universities, libraries and museums.
They change the way we consult, research and disseminate historical manuscripts
to reveal hitherto unknown, and unknowable, information. This article looks at
how the field can best integrate these transformations. Concentrating on
training programmes for advanced students as a way of reimagining the field, it
provides concrete advice for the future of manuscript studies, arguing that the
existence of manuscript studies as removed from Digital Humanities and heritage
science is becoming more and more artificial and detrimental to the future of
the field
Devotional literature and practice in medieval England. Readers, reading, and reception. Edited by Kathryn Vulić, Susan Uselmann and C. Annette Grisé. Pp. vi + 284. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. €80. 978 2 503 53029 1
Latin liturgical psalters in the Bodleian Library. A select catalogue. By Elizabeth Solopova. Pp. xxxvi + 739 + 111 colour plates. Oxford: Bodleian Library/Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. ÂŁ150. 978 1 85124 297 9
The First Bible Printed in England: A Little Known Witness from Late Henrician England
The first Bible to be printed in England was produced in by the royal printer, and with Henry VIII’s initial support. It has attracted little scholarly attention. This first extensive examination traces its creation and early reception as witness to the uncertain course of the English Reformation. Its origins reveal a dependency on Continental models, which were then modified to create a book carefully placed between conservatism and reform. Priests, scho- lars, children and crooks left their marks on the Bible, and advanced digital technology exposes unique evidence for the merging of Latin and English in late Henrician liturgy