Medieval Manuscripts and Electronic Media : Observations on Future Possibilities

Author / Editor
Driver, Martha [W.]

Title
Medieval Manuscripts and Electronic Media : Observations on Future Possibilities

Published
Derek Pearsall, ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (York; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, in association with Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 53-64.

Description
Assesses the Internet and CD-ROMs as tools in the study and teaching of manuscript research, summarizing the potential and limitations of each. Comments on the impact of a number of projects, products, and Web sites, focusing on the Canterbury Tales Project and its media impact.

Alternative Title
New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.