The Digital Humanities

Eileen Gardiner is co-founder and co-publisher of Italica Press. She has served as director of ACLS Humanities E-Book, executive director of The Medieval Academy of America, and co-editor of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. She is author of Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante, Medieval Visions of Heaven and Hell, The Pilgrim's Way to St Patrick's Purgatory, and Hell-on-Line, a website on the infernal otherworld in various traditions. Ronald G. Musto is co-founder and co-publisher of Italica Press. He has served as director of ACLS Humanities E-Book, co-executive director of The Medieval Academy of America, and editor of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. He has taught at New York University, Duke University, North Carolina and Columbia University, New York, and has held American Academy in Rome, National Endowment for the Humanities and Mellon Foundation fellowships. He has published nine books and various articles, including Apocalypse in Rome and Renaissance Society and Culture (co-edited with John Monfasani).

• 1. Introduction to the digital humanities; 2. The organization of humanities research; 3. The elements of digital humanities: text and document; 4. The elements of digital humanities: object, artifact, image, sound, space; 5. Digital tools; 6. Digital environments; 7. Publication: pre-release, release, and beyond; 8. The meta-issues of digital humanities 1; 9. Meta-issues 2: copyright and other rights, DRM, open access; 10. The evolving landscape for the digital humanities; Epilogue: the half-life of wisdom; Appendix: digital tools.

'Deep scholarship and lively engagement with a vast range of contemporary innovations animate this concise, reliable, indeed almost indispensable book.' James J. O'Donnell, author of Avatars of the Word