Through a multidisciplinary collection of case studies, this book explores the effects of the digital age on medieval and early modern studies.
Divided into five parts, the book examines how people, medieval and modern, engage with medieval media and technology through an exploration of the theory underpinning audience interactions with historical materials in the past and the real-world engagement of a twenty-first century audience with medieval and early modern studies through the multimodal lens of a vast digital landscape. Each case study reveals the diversity of medieval media and technology and challenges readers to consider new types of literacy competencies as scholarly, rigorous methods of engaging in pre-modern investigations of materiality. Essays in the first section engage in the examination of medieval media, mediation, and technology from a theoretical framework, while the second section explores how digitization, smart technologies, digital mapping, and the internet have shaped medieval and early modern studies today.
The book will be of interest to students in undergraduate or graduate intermediate or advanced courses as well as scholars, in medieval studies, art history, architectural history, medieval history, literary history, and religious history.
Author(s): Katharine D. Scherff, Lane J Sobehrad
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 173
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities
Framing the Book
Part I: Text or Tool? - Beyond the Narrative
1 From Audits to Confessionals: The Influence of Accounting Technology on Medieval Penitential Pedagogy
Accounting Technologies in Late Medieval England
Accounting for Sin in the Confessional Audit
Bibliography
2 As Nimble as the Pen of a Scribe: The Mediating Tongue in Aquinas’s Commentary on the Psalms
Background
The Sword and Arrow: Tongue as Mediating Harm
The Tongue as a Mediator to Self and Others
Tongue as Mediating Taste
Tongue as Mediating the Divine
Conclusion
Part II: Interpretive Technologies – Viewing Culture and Society
3 Painted, Printed, and Digitized: The Commemorative Images for the British “Worthies”
Bibliography
4 Maps, Views, and Chorographies: An Examination of the Depiction of Place and the Representation of Architecture in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1572)
Defining Chorography
A Case Study in Choice-Making: Hospitals Depicted in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Conclusion
Bibliography
Part III: Proximity – The Earthly and Divine Spheres
5 Ars combinatoria: Deciphering the Earthly and the Divine in the Medieval World and Beyond
Introduction
Ramon Llull’s Ars Combinatoria
Leon Battista Alberti’s Cipher Disk
The Zā’irja
Conclusion
Bibliography
6 “It’s Like I’m Actually There!” Jumbotrons, Liveness, and the Corpus Christi
Medieval Mass and Live Performance
The Corpus Christi
The screen
“Show’s over folks?”
Bibliography
Part IV: Teaching “Tools” and Accessibility
7 Simulating the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art Market in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom
Setting the Stage
With Greater Use of Technology Came More Potential for Learning
The Future of the Simulation
Bibliography
8 The Virtual Renaissance: Adopting Virtual Reality to Transform How Art History is Taught
Introduction
Project Overview
Methods and Practices
Reimagining the Early Modern Classroom Teaching the Virtual Renaissance, Eric Hupe
Creating and Learning in the Virtual Renaissance, Caitlyn Carr
Benefits and Considerations
The Future of Art History?
Bibliography
Part V: Digital Viewing and Reflections
9 Reflections: Relating Medieval Modes to Modern Multimodal Literacies in the Digital Humanities
Multimodal Literacy
Modalities in the Learning Environment
Index
