New Technologies and Renaissance Studies, edited by William R. Bowen and Raymond G. Siemems, is now available in
print (http://acmrs.org/publications/mrts/renstu.html) and online (http://www.itergateway.org/mrts.htm#ntmrs). The volume is the first in a new series entitled, New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
As Willard McCarty so rightly notes in the opening article to this volume, “wherever one looks, computing seems to be at or near the epicentres of disturbance.” Most certainly, near the forefront of any examination of disciplinary pursuits in the academy today, among the many and very important issues being addressed one will inevitably end the role of computing and its integration into, and perhaps revolutionizing of, central methodological approaches. Published by Iter and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the series New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies addresses this context from both broad and narrow perspectives, with anticipated discussions rooted in literature, art history, musicology, culture, and more in the medieval and Renaissance periods. Articles in this volume cover such topics as the digital reconstruction and re-presentation of archival materials, the adaptation of text encoding systems to address the concerns of manuscript studies, the pedagogical opportunities presented by the electronic medium, and well beyond.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface, Being Reborn: The Humanities, Computing and Styles of Scientific Reasoning, Willard McCarty
A Pragmatics of Re-Conception? (A Response to Willard McCarty, “Being Reborn: The Humanities, Computing and Styles of Scientific Reasoning”), Raymond G. Siemens
Digital Still Images and Renaissance Studies (with a Short Section on Digital Video), Michael Greenhalgh
Renaissance Studies and New Technologies: A Collection of “Electronic Texts”, David L. Gants and R. Carter Hailey
Electronic Sound, Susan Forscher Weiss and Ichiro Fujinaga
Iter: Building an E ective Knowledge Base, William R. Bowen
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project, Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto
EMLS: A Case Study in the Development of an Academic Ejournal, Lisa Hopkins, Raymond G. Siemens, and Matthew Steggle
Creating a Website for Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Peter M. Lukehart
Reading and Teaching Shakespeare in the Virtual Library, Rebecca Bushnell
Performers on the Road: Tracking Their Tours with the REED Patrons and Performances Website, Sally-Beth MacLean and Alan Somerset
The Perdita Project: Women’s Writing, Manuscript Studies and XML Tagging, Jonathan Gibson
Encoding Renaissance Electronic Texts, Ian Lancashire
The Devil is in the Details: An Electronic Edition of the Devonshire MS (British Library Additional MS 17,492), its
Encoding and Prototyping, Raymond G. Siemens, Karin Armstrong, and Barbara Bond
Coincidental Technologies: Moving Parts in Early Modern Books and in Early Hypertext, Richard Cunningham
The Exploration and Development of Tools for Active Reading and Electronic Texts, Stephanie F. Thomas
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