A Guide to Digital Medieval Studies in North America

This review article sets out to account for the role Digital Humanities plays in the editing of medieval texts in projects of Canadian and American digital medievalists. This study surveys the most important developments and trends in the last 15 years of digital text editing. Specific North America...

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Main Author: Stephen P. McCormick
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Language:English
Published: Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil 2016-01-01
Series:Perspectives Médiévales
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/peme/9655
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