M-95. The Medieval Manuscript in the Twenty-First Century - Advance Reading List

• Required Reading

  Borland, Jennifer. “Unruly Reading: The Consuming Role of Touch in the Experience of a Medieval Manuscript.” In Scraped, Stroked, and Bound: Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts, edited by Jonathan Wilcox, 97–114 and plates 225–230. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Available for download via academia.edu.

  Echard, Sian. Printing the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Read “Coda. The Ghost in the Machine: Digital Avatars of Medieval Manuscripts,” pp. 198–216.

  Edwards, A.S.G. “Back to the real?” Times Literary Supplement (7 June 2013). http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/back-to-the-real/.

  Holsinger, Bruce et al. “Medieval Studies in the Age of Big Data: A Serial Forum.” Burnable Books (13 December 2012). https://web.archive.org/web/20160712025923/http://burnablebooks.com/medieval-studies-in-the-age-of-big-data-a-serial-forum/. (This is just the introduction; see also posts in the forum).

  Houston, Kerr. “Surface and Substance.” Material Collective (15 January 2015). http://thematerialcollective.org/surface-substance/.

  Jacobs, James A. “‘An alarmingly casual indifference to accuracy and authenticity.’ What we know about digital surrogates.” Free Government Information (1 March 2015). http://freegovinfo.info/node/9572.

  Kichuk, Diana. “Loose, Falling Characters and Sentences: The Persistence of the OCR Problem in Digital Repository E-Books.” Portal: Libraries and the Academy 15:1 (2015): 59–91. doi:10.1353/pla.2015.0005.

  Schöch, Christof. “Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities” Journal of Digital Humanities 2:3 (Summer 2013).
  http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-3/big-smart-clean-messy-data-in-the-humanities/.

  Treharne, Elaine. “Fleshing out the Text: the Transcendent Manuscript in the Digital Age.” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 4:4 (December 2013). http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/journal/v4/n4/full/pmed201336a.html.

• Recommended Reading

  Clemens, Raymond and Timothy Graham. Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Cornell: Cornell University Press, 2007.