SUL Misc 2017
Stanford Text Technologies asks whose voices are heard in the human record from the earliest times to the present day
We are especially interested in textual objects (books, documents, tablets, scrolls, graffiti, photographs)—how they are designed, made, and function, and what they mean culturally and socially
Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2022)
New Book! Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250: Rethinking the Humanities through Premodern Texts
Disrupting Categories 1050-1250 is concerned with disciplinary divides in modern scholarship that hinder study of medieval manuscripts and their contents. In four chapters, Treharne examines case studies that show how a fresh approach--interdisciplinary in intent--enlivens understanding of literature, language, manuscript books, and scripts. The Letter of Eadwine illustrates how limiting the category of 'history' might be; an English homily on the Assumption of Mary shows language as living and constantly evolving; the case of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley MS 343 with the poem, The Grave, is an excellent example of attending to the marginal; and a full discussion and re-evaluation of the Tremulous Hand of Worcester analyses their handwriting with Magna Carta's scribes and comparable witnesses.
Digital Ker: Neil Ripley Ker and Medieval English Manuscript Studies
The new Digital Ker @Stanford project launched in 2024-2025 with a website devoted to Neil Ripley Ker and his work on English Medieval Manuscripts. The site includes a Word version of his Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (OUP, 1957; repr. 1991) with bibliographical updates; and several previously unpublished essays from Ker's archive at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. This project is part of the ongoing work towards a scholarly biography of Ker.
Research Projects
SILICON (Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media)
SILICON is a major new project, led by PI, Professor Thomas Mullaney, and Co-Director, Elaine Treharne. Its aim is to provide a presence for Digitally Disadvantaged Languages globally through multiple ventures, technological interventions, and collaborative partnerships, working alongside expert practitioners and brilliant students.
Recent News
The social problem of losing archival materials--the bits and bobs, as well as those records deemed official.
Elaine Treharne was delighted to be awarded a Stanford Impact Labs Design Fellowship in 2024-2025 to develop her project on Archival Accessibility for All.
