Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities
	Framing the Book
Part I: Text or Tool? - Beyond the Narrative
	1 From Audits to Confessionals: The Influence of Accounting Technology on Medieval Penitential Pedagogy
		Accounting Technologies in Late Medieval England
		Accounting for Sin in the Confessional Audit
		Bibliography
	2 As Nimble as the Pen of a Scribe: The Mediating Tongue in Aquinas’s Commentary on the Psalms
		Background
		The Sword and Arrow: Tongue as Mediating Harm
		The Tongue as a Mediator to Self and Others
		Tongue as Mediating Taste
		Tongue as Mediating the Divine
		Conclusion
Part II: Interpretive Technologies – Viewing Culture and Society
	3 Painted, Printed, and Digitized: The Commemorative Images for the British “Worthies”
		Bibliography
	4 Maps, Views, and Chorographies: An Examination of the Depiction of Place and the Representation of Architecture in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1572)
		Defining Chorography
		A Case Study in Choice-Making: Hospitals Depicted in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part III: Proximity – The Earthly and Divine Spheres
	5 Ars combinatoria: Deciphering the Earthly and the Divine in the Medieval World and Beyond
		Introduction
		Ramon Llull’s Ars Combinatoria
		Leon Battista Alberti’s Cipher Disk
		The Zā’irja
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	6 “It’s Like I’m Actually There!” Jumbotrons, Liveness, and the Corpus Christi
		Medieval Mass and Live Performance
		The Corpus Christi
		The screen
		“Show’s over folks?”
		Bibliography
Part IV: Teaching “Tools” and Accessibility
	7 Simulating the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art Market in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom
		Setting the Stage
		With Greater Use of Technology Came More Potential for Learning
		The Future of the Simulation
		Bibliography
	8 The Virtual Renaissance: Adopting Virtual Reality to Transform How Art History is Taught
		Introduction
		Project Overview
		Methods and Practices
		Reimagining the Early Modern Classroom Teaching the Virtual Renaissance, Eric Hupe
		Creating and Learning in the Virtual Renaissance, Caitlyn Carr
		Benefits and Considerations
		The Future of Art History?
		Bibliography
Part V: Digital Viewing and Reflections
	9 Reflections: Relating Medieval Modes to Modern Multimodal Literacies in the Digital Humanities
		Multimodal Literacy
		Modalities in the Learning Environment
Index