Digital Medieval Studies—Practice and Preservation

Laura Morreale is an Independent Scholar and teacher at Georgetown University. Her research considers the literary cultures of late medieval Italy and the Mediterranean. She was the 2020–2021 Chair of the Medieval Academy of America Committee on Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies and is currently a member of the Digital Medievalist Executive Board.Sean Gilsdorf is Lecturer on Medieval Studies and Administrative Director of the Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard University. His research addresses the intellectual, religious, and political history of the early Middle Ages. He is also director (with Daniel Smail) of a forthcoming digital humanities resource for K-12 teachers, Medieval Object Lessons.

Morreale and Gilsdorf’s Digital Medieval Studies: Practice and Preservation is a [...] valuable resource for all those interested in Digital Humanities and how to use them to create innovative ways of learning, teaching, and conducting research.

• Introduction: The Medievalist, Digital Edition, by Laura K. Morreale and Sean GilsdorfChapter 1. Beginnings: The Labyrinth Medieval Studies Website, by Deborah Everhart and Martin IrvineChapter 2. New Approaches to Old Questions: Digital Technology, Sigillography, and DIGISIG, by John McEwanChapter 3. Corpus Synodalium: Medieval Canon Law in a Digital Age, by Rowan DorinChapter 4. Teaching Constantinople as a (Pixelated) Palimpsest, by J. W. TorgersonChapter 5. Life on—and off—the Continuum, by Lisa Fagin DavisAppendix: Permanent Links to the Catalogued Assets of Profiled ProjectsBibliographyIndex