Textual Technology ePortfolio
For this assignment I created a digital ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Mother Holle.” It became clear that there are benefits to presenting this kind of text as a hypertext (or digital text that …
During this assignment, I worked with a digitized version of the 1567 book “Certaine tragicall discourses written out of Frenche and Latin” (the full title is much longer) by Geffraie Fenton. I worked with this book through EarlyPrint, a website …
For this assignment I tried doing the University of Nottingham’s Interactive Exercises, which let you try to transcribe pieces of various medieval manuscripts, and copying Wilfred Owen’s first draft of “Dulce et Decorum est.” I found that the differences between …
For this assignment, I decided to try imitating three different kinds of historical script based on video examples. I attempted to replicate Carolingian script, Textura Quadrata, and Batarde, which were all used by scribes in the production of manuscripts. The …
Descriptive Bibliography I have examined a copy of The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall in order to see what I can discover about the book by simply examining its physical attributes. The lack of an introduction, preface, or …
