NES 317 / HIS 312 / HUM 314 / CDH 317

Text and Technology: from Handwritten to Digital Formats

Christine M. Roughan

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How did the introduction of new text technologies impact premodern culture? What motivated or delayed the adoption of the codex or the various types of print? Did these technologies encourage new practices or suppress old ones? And how does the story change when we turn from European to Near Eastern contexts? By learning about past text technologies, we’ll gain a fuller understanding of how today’s digital text technologies leave their mark on how we interact with texts and with the world. This course teaches relevant digital humanities methods for texts and reflects critically on both our current moment and premodern pasts.

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