Coding Codices

In this episode, Caitlin Postal and James Harr talk to Eric Ensley and Matthew Kirschenbaum about the archive, both digital and material. Eric Ensley is a curator of rare books and maps at the University of Iowa. He received his PhD in English from Yale University in 2021 and holds an MLS from the University of North Carolina. Among his current projects is a digital edition of a Piers Plowman manuscript held in the Beinecke library, which he is co-authoring with Ian Cornelius of Loyola-Chicago. Matthew Kirschenbaum is a professor of English and Digital Studies at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination and Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. His next book, Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage, will be published in the fall by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Music credits: Intro / outro: TeknoAXE, "Chiptune Nobility" (CC BY 4.0), interlude: Random Mind, "The Old Tower Inn" (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TMBF4zq4LQ).

Transcript and more information at https://codingcodices.wordpress.com/2021/06/04/episode-6-digital-archive-materiality/.

Recorded 26 March 2021. Edited by James Harr and Aylin Malcolm.

Dorothy Kim speaks about her work at the intersection of medieval studies and digital humanities, highlighting issues of race, globality,  and national identity and relating her research to work in other fields like bioarchaeology. She is co-director of the Archive of Early Middle English, a PI for the Global Middle Ages Project, and the medieval editor of the Orlando project. Recent and forthcoming publications discussed in this episode include Disrupting the Digital Humanities (2018), Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities (forthcoming spring 2021) and Global Medieval Digital Humanities (tba).

Music credits: Intro / outro: TeknoAXE, “Chiptune Nobility” (CC BY 4.0), interlude: “Suonatore di Liuto” by Kevin MacLeod (link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto, license: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license).

Transcript and more information at https://codingcodices.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/episode-5-global-medieval-studies/.

Recorded 27 November 2020. Edited by Aylin Malcolm and Tessa Gengnagel.

Elisa Cugliana speaks about her digital scholarly edition of Marco Polo's travelogue that she is working on for her joint PhD degree at the universities of Venice and Cologne. Topics of discussion include the tradition of Italian philology and textual criticism, the transmission history of Marco Polo's travel report which originated at the end of the 13th century, and how scholarly editorial principles intersect with the technological possibilities of the digital.

Music credits: Intro/outro music by TeknoAXE, “Chiptune Nobility” (CC BY 4.0), interludes by Random Mind, “Exploration,” (CC0), TeknoAXE, “Lowly Tavern Bard – Fall is Upon Us Again,” (CC BY 4.0), Random Mind, “King's Feast,” (CC0), sawsquarenoise, “RottenMage SpaceJacked OST JINGLE 01,” (CC BY 4.0), Random Mind, “The Old Tower Inn” (CC0).

Transcript and more information at https://codingcodices.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/episode-4-marco-polo-and-the-art-of-editing/.

Recorded 8 April 2020. Edited by Tessa Gengnagel.

Dr Lucy R. Hinnie discusses her forthcoming digital edition of the Bannatyne Manuscript [Advocates MS. 1.1.6], the largest extant collection of late medieval Scottish verse, with Caitlin Postal.

For more resources and a transcript, visit https://codingcodices.wordpress.com/2021/03/05/episode-3-digitizing-the-bannatyne-ms/.

Music by TeknoAXE (Chiptune Nobility) and Random Mind (The Bard's Tale). Edited by Caitlin Postal.

Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis speaks with Aylin about identifying the five scribes of the undeciphered Voynich Manuscript. 

Giulio Menna and Marjolein de Vos, the founders of the Sexy Codicology project as well as the DMMapp (Digitized Medieval Manuscripts app), speak about the history of the projects, the digitization of medieval manuscripts and their promotion on social media.

Music credits: Intro music by TeknoAXE, “Chiptune Nobility” (CC BY 4.0), outro music by Random Mind, “The Bard's Tale” (CC0).

Transcript and more information at https://codingcodices.wordpress.com/2021/01/07/episode-1-sexy-codicology-and-the-dmmapp/.

Recorded 4 June 2020. Edited by Tessa Gengnagel.

In this special episode, the members of the Digital Medievalist Postgraduate Subcommittee introduce themselves and discuss the field of digital medieval studies. Participants: Hannah Busch, Nathan Daniels, Tessa Gengnagel, James Harr III, Aylin Malcolm, Caitlin Postal, Daniela Schulz.

Music credits: Intro music by TeknoAXE, “Chiptune Nobility” (CC BY 4.0), additional music by Random Mind, “King's Feast” (CC0), outro music by  Random Mind, “The Bard's Tale” (CC0).

Recorded 30 November 2020. Edited by Tessa Gengnagel.