Textus Ex Machina: Electronic Texts and Medieval Studies
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Most medieval scholarship arises from an encounter with the surviving texts of the Middle Ages and the documents which convey them. The use of computers to store and analyse these texts has a surprisingly long history. As early as 1949, when the computer was still in its infancy, Roberto Busa began developing an electronic concordance to the works of Thomas Aquinas the Index Thomisticus. Until quite recently, though, this kind of activity took place at the margins of medieval scholarship, and had little effect on most researchers and students. It is only now that computers are being more widely applied in ways which promote and assist textual scholarship of this kind. Electronic texts are finally coming of age in medieval studies. In the near future, electronic editions will be an essential part of a medievalist's tools for research and study.
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