Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Through a multidisciplinary collection of case studies, this book explores the effects of the digital age on medieval and early modern studies.

Katharine D. Scherff is Postdoc Lecturer and teaches for the School of Art and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center at Texas Tech University. Lane J. Sobehrad is Coordinator of Research and Innovation for Lubbock ISD.

Introduction Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities Part I Text or Tool? - Beyond the Narrative 1. From Audits to Confessionals: The Influence of Accounting Technology on Medieval Penitential Pedagogy 2. As Nimble as the Pen of a Scribe The Mediating Tongue in Aquinas's Commentary on the Psalms Part II Interpretive Technologies - Viewing Culture and Society 3. Painted, Printed, and Digitized, the Commemorative Images for the British "Worthies" 4. Maps, Views, and Chorographies An Examination of the Depiction of Place and the Representation of Architecture in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum Part III Proximity - The Earthly and Divine Spheres 5. Ars combinatoria Deciphering the Earthly and the Divine in the Medieval World and Beyond 6. "It's Like I'm Actually there!": Jumbotrons, Liveness, and the Corpus Christi Part IV Teaching "Tools" and Accessibility 7. Simulating The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art Market in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom 8. The Virtual Renaissance Adopting Virtual Reality to Transform How Art History is Taught Part V Digital Viewing and Reflections 9. Reflections Relating Medieval Modes to Modern Multimodal Literacies in the Digital Humanities