This chapter assesses the evolution of the digitized manuscript from fragmented data to increasingly accessible and interoperable forms. The long view of media history and the tenets of the emerging field of media archaeology frame this exploration, considering how digital representations of manuscripts function as a kind of incunable – an e…[Read more]

What forgotten forms can philology assume anew? Reassessing how early medieval writers loved words differently than we do reveals significant gaps between past and presence senses of the physical phenomena words can index. In the early medieval language of Old English texts there remains a largely uncharted capacity for less linguistically driven…[Read more]

A contribution to Beowulf by All.
Ed. Elaine Treharne; a collaborative translation of the poem, for The Electronic Beowulf (2018)

Written for a special issue of English Studies, on “Women’s Bodies in Anglo-Saxon England,” eds. Robin Norris, Rebecca Stephenson & Renée Trilling

This essay dives deep into the events of S. 1377, a late tenth-century Anglo-Saxon charter that recounts the execution of a widow, probably for witchcraft, on the southeast border of the collap…[Read more]

Closing Remarks of the Executive Director for the 2017 ISAS Meeting, University of Hawai’i, Manoa August 4, 2017; text and accompanying slides; slightly edited to include improvisatory notes and expansions from keyword prompts.

The Remanence of Medieval Media (uncorrected, pre-publication version)

For: The Routledge Handbook of Digital Medieval Literature, edited by Jen Boyle and Helen Burgess (2017)

For: Anglo-Saxon Women: A Florilegium (2018)

Prepublication draft for: Transitional States: Cultural Change, Tradition and Memory in Medieval England
(ACMRS 2017)