Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Digital medieval studies: Tools and projects

CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) is a research collaboration aimed at integrating digital archives and resources for research on medieval and modern European history.

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based community for medievalists working with digital media. It was established in 2003 to help scholars meet the increasingly sophisticated demands faced by designers of contemporary digital projects. Digital Medievalist publishes an open access journal, sponsors conference sessions, runs an email discussion list and encourages best practice in digital medieval resource creation.

MARGOT is a long-term research project devoted to publishing fully searchable editions of either generally inaccessible texts from the French Middle Ages and the Early Modern period (the Ancien Régime) or of texts in connection with a specific project from the same time period. All text are in XML using tags derived from TEI.

From the introduction, "The Beauvais Missal is one of the best-known victims of mid-twentieth-century American biblioclasm, serving as a perfect example of just how great a loss is incurred when a codex is dismembered and its leaves scattered." This exhibit features the digitized leaves tracked by the author.

Examples of projects based on social network analysis. Also includes links to tools and resources for this method of analysis of social and historical networks.

The St Chad Gospels (formerly known as the Lichfield Gospels, and sometimes still known as the St Teilo Gospels) is an eighth century Gospel Book housed in Lichfield Cathedral. This project features historical image overlays (photographs taken of the manuscript at various points in time), an interactive 3D gallery of images of 16 of the most significant pages of the manuscript, a multispectral visualization of page 141 and the searchable transcript of the text.