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Old Light on New Media: Medieval Practices in the Digital Age

Kiss Farkas, Gábor and Dolezalová, Lucie and Wójcik, Rafał and Poleg, Eyal (2013) Old Light on New Media: Medieval Practices in the Digital Age. DIGITAL PHILOLOGY: A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL CULTURES, 2. pp. 16-34. ISSN 2162-9544

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: C Auxiliary Sciences of History / történeti segédtudományok > CB History of civilization / művelődéstörténet
Q Science / természettudomány > QA Mathematics / matematika > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science / számítástechnika, számítógéptudomány
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 29 Jul 2016 11:35
Last Modified: 29 Jul 2016 11:35
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/38228

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