A collection of essays engaging with digital scholarship and new technologies.
Contributors to this volume engage with digital scholarship in several ways: by creating digital projects, often in multidisciplinary, collaborative environments; by applying digital methodologies and tools to explore research questions; and by speculating about the potential directions that digital scholarship can take to tackle existing research areas that could benefit from new perspectives. Together, the chapters demonstrate how various digital approaches—from network analysis to web mapping, VR and AR technologies, digital editions, databases, and archives—are all contributing in creative and effective ways to expand our knowledge of the past, to help ask and answer questions at a scale that was unimaginable before the digital turn, and to reshape early modern studies in the twenty-first century. Editors Randa El Khatib and Caroline Winter are co-organizers of New Technologies and Renaissance Studies–Digital Humanities at RSA (NTRS–DH@RSA) 2020, the online conference upon which this volume is based.
Introduction: The Changing Shape of Digital Early Modern Studies
Randa El Khatib and Caroline Winter
Visualizing the Sidney Network: Using Network Analysis to Understand Women’s Place
Catherine Medici
Print Networks of Early Modern Astronomy in Galileo’s Library
Crystal Hall
The Republic of Tweets
Jessica Marie Otis
Opening Up the Scriptorium: The Theory and Ethics of Transcription Methods from the Handwritten Page to the Web Page
Sarah Banschbach Valles and Sarah J. Sprouse
New Solutions for Old Problems: Digital Publication, the Linguistic Study of Medieval Vernacular Texts, and the EDV Project
Nadia Cannata
Moving Images and Text on Leonardo’s Codices: The Evolution of Drawing a Digital Edition
Giuditta Cirnigliaro
FRIDA: A Multilevel Digital Atlas for the Ephemeral Renaissance, La Serenissima Venice, 1450–1550
Francesca Bortoletti, Giuseppe Gerbino, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Beatrice Gobbo, and Tommaso Elli
“Dear Galileo”: Letters as Data on Astronomy
Caterina Agostini
Penelope Rich: Mapping the Mobility of a Sixteenth-Century Aristocratic Woman
Gerit Quealy
GEA: Invisible Sienese Women Made Visible
Elena Brizio and Luis Meneses
Beyond a Digital Catalog: Rethinking Musical and Cartographic Sources through Digital Humanities
Angela Fiore and Sara Belotti
Interacting with Big Historical Data of the Dutch Golden Age: Golden Agents and Virtual Interiors
Charles van den Heuvel
Northeye (Re)Constructed: Augmented Reality of an Abandoned Medieval Village
Steven Bednarski, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Robin Harrap, Zack MacDonald, and Andrew Moore
The Place of Reading in VR: Pedagogy, Spenser’s Kilcolman Castle, and Amoretti 65
Thomas Herron
Designing an Educational Game for Shakespeare’s Hamlet
John Misak and Kevin LaGrandeur
Does the kunstkammer Need a Digital Future?
Andrea M. Gáldy
Contributors
Randa El Khatib is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is currently the codirector of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, alongside Ray Siemens and Alyssa Arbuckle, and serves as the coeditor of Early Modern Digital Review, alongside Darren Freebury-Jones and Isabella Magni. Caroline Winter is a postdoctoral fellow in open social scholarship at the University of Victoria’s Electronic Textual Cultures Lab.
