MST3135H: Digital Old English

Digital tools and approaches have a long history in the scholarly study of Old English: from the Dictionary of Old English, born digital a decade before the internet; to the Electronic Beowulf, shedding new light on the Beowulf manuscript through digital imaging since 1993; to twenty-first century manuscript digitization and corpus building efforts. This course introduces students to digital scholarship in Old English. A survey of digital scholarship in the field is followed by practical workshops in digital methods: working with digital manuscript repositories and viewers; coding and computational text analysis (and their limitations); mapping and data visualization; scholarly video games and augmented reality exhibits. Finally, through workshops and consultation with Old English, library, and technology specialists, students develop their own scholarly digital project about Old English texts.

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