Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2014

Publication Title

Digital Philology

Department

Comparative Literature Program

Abstract

This essay is the introduction to an essay collection about the Middle English Prose Brut manuscript purchased by Dartmouth College in 2006. I consider how the competing pressures of access and preservation condition scholarship in medieval studies. I suggest several analogies between the digital humanities in general, digital philology in medieval studies, and the historical practices of medieval writers: hacking, dark archive, and prosthesis.

DOI

10.1353/dph.2014.0014

Comments

This version of the essay was originally published in HTML on the Dartmouth Library site. The document provided here is a PDF copy of that page.

Original Citation

Warren, Michelle R. "Introduction: Situating Digital Archives." Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, vol. 3 no. 2, 2014, p. 169-177. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/dph.2014.0014.

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