Agenda

Peter Robinson

University of Saskatchewan / Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Abstract

We are entering the fourth decade of scholarly editions in digital form, and this paper reviews the extent to which digital editions have changed our understanding of the works presented in these editions. This talk will examine how four different areas of textual scholarship — the Greek New Testament, Boccaccio’s Teseida, Dante’s Commedia and Chaucer’s Book of the Tales of Canterbury — have been affected by the advent of digital tools.

Bio

Peter Robinson is Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, and a visiting Professor at Ca’ Foscari in 2024.. He is active in the creation of tools for scholarly editing, the development of standards for digital resources, formerly as a member of the Text Encoding Initiative and as leader of the EU funded MASTER project, and has published on Chaucer, scholarly editing, and the digital humanities.

The event is part of the seminar series organized by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. It will be held in person and online.

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