Provocative yet sober, Digital Critical Editions examines how transitioning from print to a
digital milieu deeply affects how scholars deal with the work of editing critical texts. On one …

It has been more than ten years since the first digital editions began to see the light of day.
This article examines the current state of and future possibilities for the digital critical edition …

The English language has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, making it
increasingly difficult for students to read Chaucer's works. Assuming no previous linguistic …

In this broad-reaching, multi-disciplinary collection, leading scholars investigate how the
digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very …

Some rights are reserved. This book is made available under the Creative Commons
Atribution Non Commercial No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. This …

It has long been accepted that two of the earliest and most authoritative copies of Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales were written by the same scribe. 1 These are the Hengwrt manuscript …

The fact that the Canterbury Tales consists of a collection of fragments of an unfinished work
is one, I would gather, that many readers of this journal, in their roles as teachers of …

Skaldic poetry is a highly complex textual phenomenon both in terms of the intricacy of the
poetry and its contextual environment. Extensible Markup Language (XML) applications …

Every year countless people throughout the world encounter the Canterbury Tales in
editions, translations, and adaptations. Ultimately, all these many different forms of …

Chaucer's CanterburyTales consists of loosely-connected stories, appearing in many
different orders in extantmanuscripts. Differences in order result fromrearrangements by …