Digital Book History
on fields of digital history: https://inclusivehistorian.com/digital-history/
Scribes of the Cairo Genizah: https://www.scribesofthecairogeniza.org/
list of resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f5Pgp-4kWX5lycmQRkj9w7gWcMlINqmjId1VuQjxXeY/edit
https://www.ofpilcrows.com/resources-early-modern-plays-page-and-stage
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/shakespeareandthebook/studyenv/pub00.html
Early Print: https://earlyprint.org/
https://bookowners.online/Main_Page
Watermark recognition: http://imagine.enpc.fr/~shenx/Watermark/ / https://bernstein.oeaw.ac.at/twiki/bin/view/Main/Conference_Cork20191016.html
Dramatic Extracts
Digital Miscellanies Index, work of Abigail Williams: http://digitalmiscellaniesindex.org/
Perdita Project
Sonia Massai and Heidi Craig, Paratexts
Liza Blake, http://digitalcavendish.org/original-research/locating-margaret-cavendish/ -- locating Margaret CAvendish; her books are all over because they were cheap
Jim Mussell, The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age
Stephen Pumfrey et al., "Experiments in 17th century English: manual versus automatic conceptual history," Literary and Linguistic Computing -- pairs with Shore 2019
Kathryn Rudy, "Dirty Books"
Visualizing a library: https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/ff/#modus=distribution?level=0?filter=null?auswahl=Q20
From Jon Lamb, "Digital Resources for Early Modern Studies," SEL 2018:
Archives
- Women Writers Online
- English Broadside Ballad Archive
- Oxford Text Archive -- can open records in Voyant
- Newton Project
- London Lives, 1690-1800
- Casebooks Project
- Digital Bodleian
- Digital Scriptorium
- Early Modern Manuscripts Online
- Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project
- Verse Miscellanies Online
- Center for Editing Lives and Letters -- myriad projects
- Hartlib Papers
- 1641 Depositions
- Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707
- Down Survey of Ireland
- Selden Map of China
- An Electronic Edition of John Strype's A Survey
Metadata aggregators
- Renaissance Knowledge Network
- Cultures of Knowledge -- leading to Early Modern Letters Online
- Lexicons of Early Modern English
- Lost Plays Database
- Database of Early English Playbooks
- Records of Early English Drama -- Early Modern London Theatres -- Patrons & Performances
- World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
- Records of London's Livery Companies Online
- Bod-Inc Online -- all of Bodleian's incunabula
Editions
- Renascance Editions
- Representative Poetry Online
- Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript
- Digital Donne, Online Variorum
- Holinshed Project
- Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online
- Richard Brome Online
- Internet Shakespeare Editions -- Digital Renaissance Editions
- Folger Digital Texts -- Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama -- Understanding Shakespeare tool (partnership with JSTOR)
Other
- Stuart Successions Project
- Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
- Map of Early Modern London
- Early Print
- Palladio
- Visualizing English Print
Archives
Networks
how do material texts intersect with this work?
check Ahnert's CV
Jenna Townend, “Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Early Modern Networks: The Case of George Herbert and his Imitators,” Literature Compass (2016)
Michael Gavin, “Historical Text Networks: The Sociology of Early English Criticism,” Eighteenth-Century Studies (2016)
Ruth Ahnert, “Protestant Letter Networks in the Reign of Mary I: A Quantitative Approach,” ELH (2015)
Evan Bourke, “Female Involvement, Membership, and Centrality: A Social Network Analysis of the Hartlib Circle,” Literature Compass (2017)
Galloway 2012 for a critique of social network visualizations
Exploring Big Historical Data -- http://www.themacroscope.org/2.0/ -- includes companion website with visualizations
News Networks in Early Modern Europe
Early Modern Digital Studies book out in 2016
Blaine Greteman, Shakosphere: https://shakeosphere.lib.uiowa.edu/index.jsp
Sherman, "The Social Life of a Book"
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/2/000289/000289.html
SNAC: https://snaccooperative.org/?redirected=1
Jason Scott Warren, "reconstructing manuscript networks"
Bode 2018 -- chapter 5
Jenna Townend, “Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Early Modern Networks: The Case of George Herbert and his Imitators,” Literature Compass (2016)
Michael Gavin, “Historical Text Networks: The Sociology of Early English Criticism,” Eighteenth-Century Studies (2016)
Ruth Ahnert, “Protestant Letter Networks in the Reign of Mary I: A Quantitative Approach,” ELH (2015)
Evan Bourke, “Female Involvement, Membership, and Centrality: A Social Network Analysis of the Hartlib Circle,” Literature Compass (2017)
Scott Selisker, “The Bechdel Test and the Social Form of Character Networks,” New Literary History (2015)
Big Data
Priya Joshi, "Quantitative Method, Literary History"
Simon Eliot, "Very Necessary but Not Quite Sufficient"
Historians Macroscope http://www.themacroscope.org/2.0/
Robots Reading Vogue: http://dh.library.yale.edu/projects/vogue/
Cliometrics; see Humphrey Moseley and the section on Gants' paper -- footnote 2 summarizes use of quantitative data to study book trade to that time
Topic Modelling, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.84.7371&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Natalie Houston: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.56.3.498#metadata_info_tab_contents
Ed Finn, Lit Lab pamphlet: https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet3.pdf
Janice Radway's work as forerunner
Storytelling
Robert Darnton website: http://www.robertdarnton.org/
Locked chest of 17c letters: http://brienne.org/
Facsimiles
see Facsimiles page
https://twitter.com/SocAntiquaries/status/1183774797844623360 "Charles Stothard was commissioned to draw the Bayeux Tapestry for the Society in 1816. During his 3 visits to Bayeux he also made small plaster casts - by taking wax impressions of the linen - to capture the detail of the embroidery. Of course, this would never be allowed today!"
Lazarus Project: https://www.lazarusprojectimaging.com/
Early Manuscripts Electronic Library: http://emel-library.org/
early article on shifting print to digital books: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ571723
- "States that the transition from book to screen requires analytical comparison, and that the structure of the book cannot be translated to the screen without consideration of new spatial practices afforded by hypermedia "architexture." Discusses similarities between digital and printed documents and the implications for the digital document as a textscape. (PA)"
Science
- XRF testing of pigments on a manuscript initial; seems suspicious, not in the style of the period, testing showed they weren't
x-ray scans of scrolls: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/03/ancient-scrolls-charred-by-vesuvius-could-be-read-once-again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-7-Xg75CCI