Holistically Modelling the Medieval Book
Towards a Digital Contribution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21534021 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter A Stokes (0000-0002-9060-9340, École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres , Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident (UMR ), Paris France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 139 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-31 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0340-5222 • E-ISSN: 1865-8938 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ang-2021-0002 |
| OpenAlex | W3144638651 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
The book has long played an important role in medieval and indeed modern culture, being at the same time a carrier of texts and images, a sign potentially of wealth and/or education, a site of enquiry for modern scholarship for literature, history, linguistics, palaeography, codicology, art history, and more. The ‘archaeology of the book’ can tell us about its history (or biography) as well as the cultures that produced and used it, right up to its present ownership. This multidimensionality of the object has long been known, but it has also proven a challenge to digital approaches which (like all representations) are by their nature models that involve conscious or unconscious selection of particular aspects, and that have been more successful in some aspects than others. This then raises the question to what degree these different viewpoints can be brought together into something approaching a holistic view, while always allowing for the tension between standardisation and innovation, and while remembering that a ‘complete model’ is a tautology, neither possible nor desirable
Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Medieval Literature · Scholarship · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Viewpoints · Visual arts · Classics · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · History · Law · Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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