Online-Ressource
Verfasst von:	Warren, Michelle R. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Holy digital grail
Titelzusatz:	a medieval book on the internet
Verf.angabe:	Michelle R. Warren
Verlagsort:	Stanford, California
Verlag:	Stanford University Press
E-Jahr:	2022
Jahr:	[2022]
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 342 Seiten)
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Stanford text technologies
Schrift/Sprache:	In English
Ang. zum Inhalt:	Frontmatter
	CONTENTS
	Illustrations
	Abbreviations
	Preface
	INTRODUCTION. Medieval Literature in the Digital Dark Ages
	1 Translating Arthur
	2 Performing Community
	3 Marking Manuscripts
	4 Cataloguing Libraries
	5 Editing Romance
	6 Reproducing Books
	CONCLUSION. Indexing the Grail, Romancing the Internet
	Acknowledgments
	References
	Index
ISBN:	978-1-5036-3117-5
Abstract:	Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. In this book, Michelle Warren tells the story of one such manuscript—an Arthurian romance with textual origins in twelfth-century England now diffused across the twenty-first century internet. This trajectory has been propelled by a succession of technologies—from paper manufacture to printing to computers. Together, they have made literary history itself a cultural technology indebted to colonial capitalism. Bringing to bear media theory, medieval literary studies, and book history, Warren shows how digital infrastructures change texts and books, even very old ones. In the process, she uncovers a practice of "tech medievalism" that weaves through the history of computing since the mid-twentieth century; metaphors indebted to King Arthur and the Holy Grail are integral to some of the technologies that now sustain medieval books on the internet. This infrastructural approach to book history illuminates how the meaning of literature is made by many people besides canonical authors: translators, scribes, patrons, readers, collectors, librarians, cataloguers, editors, photographers, software programmers, and many more. Situated at the intersections of the digital humanities, library sciences, literary history, and book history, Holy Digital Grail offers new ways to conceptualize authorship, canon formation, and the definition of a "book."
DOI:	doi:10.1515/9781503631175
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	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781503631168.pdf
	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503631175
Schlagwörter:	(s)Mittelenglisch    / (s)Artusepik    / (s)Digital Humanities    / (s)Handschriftenkunde
	(p)Lovelich, Henry
Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Warren, Michelle R., 1967 - : Holy digital grail. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022. - xiii, 342 Seiten
RVK-Notation:	HH 7365
Sach-SW:	LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
K10plus-PPN:	1798068605
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