The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
The long-range goal of the Piers Plowman Electronic
Archive is the creation of a multi-level, hyper-textually
linked electronic archive of the textual tradition
of all three versions of the fourteenth-century
allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman. Go to http://www.iath.virginia.edu/seenet/piers/
for its web page. See Hoyt N. Duggan, with a contribution by Eugene
W. Lyman, "A Progress Report on the Piers
Plowman Electronic Archive," The Digital
Medievalist Spring 2005, at http://www.digitalmedievalist.org.
The Vernon Manuscript Project
The Vernon Manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet.a.1) is the biggest and most important surviving late medieval English manuscript. An extensive collection of Middle English religious literature (and some French and Latin), and lavishly illuminated, it is potentially an incomparable resource for art historians, codicologists, palaeographers, literary and cultural historians, linguists, and editors. However, access is currently extremely limited for conservation reasons and because of the sheer scale of the volume. The Vernon Manuscript Project will create a Digital Edition of the manuscript published on DVD in the Bodleian Digital Texts series. Providing high quality full-colour images linked to searchable descriptions and transcriptions of every page, the Digital Edition will transform the manuscript as a research resource. The edition will include essays on codicology, palaeography, production, provenance, and related manuscripts by A. I. Doyle; on language by Simon Horobin and Jeremy J. Smith; on decoration and illumination by Linda Dennison; and an overview of the manuscript and its contents.
Go to http://www.medievalenglish.bham.ac.uk/vernon/ for its web page.
Geographies of Orthodoxy: Mapping English Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ, 1350-1550
The Geographies of Orthodoxy project is the first large-scale, collaborative investigation of the cultural and literary impact of the English vernacular Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ in the period between 1350 and 1550.
In the course of the project, the project team will be previewing research findings and responding to cognate research in the field, in the interests of extending collaboration and dialogue on English contemplative and religious writings in the period 1350-1550. Its co-directors are Professor John Thompson, Dr Stephen Kelly, Dr Ryan Perry, and Dr Ian Johnson. For more information go to http://www.qub.ac.uk/geographies-of-orthodoxy/discuss/.
Database of Dissertations
The International Piers Plowman Society
is interested in establishing an online database of dissertations-in-progress
related to Piers Plowman. Please send
names of students, institutional affiliations,
thesis titles, and abstracts to: lawrence.warner
(at sign) usyd.edu.au
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