The European Society for Textual Scholarship

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Projects/Digital Editions

  • Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition
  • The Canterbury Tales Project: this fifteen years old project has pioneered the application of computer methods to the analysis and publication of texts. It particularly emphazises the use of phylogenetic software for the study of large manuscript traditions.
  • Casa Fernando Pessoa - Digital Library: this online archive of Pessoa's personal library contains images of the many printed pages that contain the poet's annotations, commentaries, translations and several other prose and verse texts, as well as drawings, horoscopes and calligraphic exercises.
  • Caxton's Canterbury Tales
  • Digital Nestle-Aland
  • The Parsival Project
  • Pico Project
  • The Women Writers Project: This Brown University project aims to make available texts by women writers in order to facilitate research and study. The also maintain a specialized subset called Renaissance Women Online.

     

    Research Institutes

  • Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp)
  • Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, Institute of English Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
  • Centre for Textual Studies (De Montfort University)
  • IDE: Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik
  • ITEM: Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (CNRS - Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) / ENS - Ecole Normale Supérieure)
  • ITSEE: Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (University of Birmingham)

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    Blogs and Other Websites

  • MSS: Modern Manuscript Studies
  • Events in Textual Scholarship: A Public Calendar
  • Reclamation and Representation: The Boundaries of the Literary Archive
  • Writers and their Libraries

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    • Study Programmes

  • The Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing's at the University of Birmingham: Master on Electronic Editing
  • The University of Birmingham's Master on Text and Book
  • The Institute of English Studies' (School of Advanced Study, University of London) MA and MRes in the History of the Book and the London Rare Books School
  • The University of Toronto's Book History and Print Culture Program, which offers both Master's and PhD's degrees
  • University of Virginia Rare Books School
  • The University of Washington's Textual Studies Program
  • The Editorial Institute's (Boston University) Master's and PhD's program
  • The University of Leiden's Book and Byte: Book and Digital Media Studies Master

     

    Societies

  • Association for Computers and the Humanities
  • Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
  • ADE: The Association for Documentary Editing
  • The Bibliographical Society (London)
  • Bibliographical Society of America
  • Early Book Society
  • GLAM: Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts
  • Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
  • Society for Textual Scholarship