New Online Course: 'Digging Deeper: Making Manuscripts'
Digging Deeper is a six-week course, with each week featuring filmed sequences of experts with manuscripts, reading assignments, a short transcription, and self-testing quizzes.
Participants who finish the course will earn a Stanford Statement of Accomplishment.
Digging Deeper: Making Manuscripts introduces you to the study of early text technologies, focusing principally on the medieval book, but covering other textual objects, too, such as scrolls and diplomata.
The Digging Deeper team of scholars from Stanford and Cambridge reveals how to investigate manuscripts within repository settings and through online resources, what to look out for when confronted with manuscript images, and how to exploit all the information a manuscript offers.
You will learn:
- major characteristics of book production,
- the terms and methods used by manuscript historians to describe the book, and
- key themes in early book history.
Digging Deeper: Making Manuscripts will be followed in Spring with a course focusing on the interpretation and preservation of manuscripts in the digital era.
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You can read more on the Research Project page, or follow the course link below to register.