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Advisory Board John Alford, Michigan State University Stephen Barney, University of California at Irvine Larry D. Benson, Harvard University John Burrow, University of Bristol Patrick Connor, West Virginia University Allen Frantzen, Loyola University of Chicago David Greetham, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY Thomas J. Heffernan, University of Kentucky Kevin Kiernan, University of Kentucky V. A. Kolve, University of California, Los Angeles Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto Michael Lapidge, Cambridge University David A. Lawton, University of Tasmania Anne Middleton, University of California, Berkeley Alastair Minnis, University of York Douglas Moffat, University of Michigan Derek Pearsall, Harvard University Fred Robinson, Yale University Geoffrey Russom, Brown University R. A. Shoaf, University of Florida A.C. Spearing, University of Virginia Thornton L. Staples, University of Virginia, Alderman Library, Director, Digital Library Research and Development Paul Szarmach, SUNY Binghamton |
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Piers Plowman Electronic Archive: Huntington Library Ms Hm 128 (Hm) and Bodleian Library Ms Rawlinson Poetry 38 / British Library Ms Lansdown 398 (R)
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Electronic editions offer historians, literary critics, linguists, and editors exciting new ways to study texts. Unlike printed books, electronic texts lend themselves to sophisticated searches, concordancing, collations, and other forms of text retrieval. Editors may present in full both "good" and "bad" manuscripts, permitting literary historians to study the history of the reception of the text as shown by scribal changes or marginal annotations. Comprehensive databases from a wide variety of dialect regions will be available to historical linguists for phonological, morphological, and syntactical studies. Students of stylistics will be able to make more complete studies of metrical, lexical, or syntactic patterning than are possible with printed texts.
The extremely flexible nature of an electronic text is also ideal for representing complex textual traditions, especially of works like Piers Plowman, where editors confront high degrees of ambiguity and uncertainty. Electronic editions will accommodate scholars who prefer "best text" documentary editions as well as those who want the best possible modern editorial reconstructions.
Series A consists primarily of book-length editions published on CD-ROM disks. We publish in this series both diplomatic transcriptions of manuscript texts and critical texts, or combinations of the two. When economically feasible, we publish full color digital facsimiles of each manuscript. Texts are accompanied by an introduction as well as appropriate historical, paleographical, codicological, lexical, and interpretive annotations.
Texts in this series accomodate some or all of the following features:
We expect in the short run to publish our texts exclusively on CD-ROM disks, though eventually, depending upon developments in electronic textery, we may make use of on-line publication.
Series B serves for publication of reference materials pertinent to the study of medieval English and Norse manuscripts and texts.
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Contact the Archive: Hoyt N. Duggan 434/296-0706. Office Address: Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, 219 Bryan Hall, University of Virginia P.O. Box 400121, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4121, USA