New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III

The essays in this volume aim at an important, underrepresented spot in Digital Humanities scholarship: Interpretive studies which use digital methods to answer questions in early modern scholarship, on a scale impossible using traditional methods. The first set of essays explore problems with digital approaches to analogue objects of study. The second set of essays employ digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection and then reflect on the limitations of those methods. A final set of essays speaks to an often-noted truth of digital projects: Unlike traditional scholarship, digital scholarship is often the result of collective networks of not only disciplinary scholars but also of library professionals and other technical and professional staff as well as our students. 

Matthew Evan Davis serves as the ZKS-Lendrum Assistant Professor (Research) in the Scientific Study of Manuscripts and Inscriptions at Durham University. He previously served as a postdoctoral fellow with the Centre for Digital Scholarship at McMaster University and as the CLIR/Mellon Postdoctoral  Fellow at North Carolina State University. A technical advisor on a number of medieval digital projects, his scholarship focuses on the relationships between people, texts, and physical and digital spaces, most recently in an ongoing archive of the works of John Lydgate (minorworksoflydgate.net).

Colin Wilder is assistant professor of German History and Digital History at the University of South Carolina, where he has also served as assistant and associate director of the Center for Digital Humanities. Before coming to USC, he completed his PhD at the University of Chicago in 2010 and held postdoctoral fellowships at Brown University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His historical scholarship focuses on the history of legal and political thought in Germany in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.