Mesotext: digitised emblems, modelled annotations and humanities scholarship

Abstract

The most strikingly missing piece of functionality in current digital editions is that of annotation. Digital editions should offer a facility where researchers can store structured and unstructured observations with respect to the edited texts. <BR>This book discusses a number of approaches to annotation systems in the context of the study of emblems, the sixteenth and seventeenth century literary genre that joins an image, a motto and an often moralizing epigram.<BR>When handled properly, annotation can become mesotext, text positioned between the annotated texts and the scholarly articles and monographs for which the annotations provide the evidence. In a digital context, it should be possible to navigate back and forth between annotated text, annotation and article. <BR>Peter Boot was born in 1961. He studied Mathematics in Leiden and Dutch Language and Culture in Utrecht, where<BR>he specialised in Older Dutch Literature. Since 2003 he has been employed at the Huygens Institute, where he works as a humanities computing consultant and researcher.

Contents

Table of Contents -- 6 Part I. Context of this Study -- 12 1. Introduction -- 14 2. An Introduction to Emblem Studies -- 20 3. Annotating the Digital Edition -- 32 Part II. Emblem Digitisation and the Emblem Project Utrecht -- 50 4. A Model for Digital Emblem Editions -- 52 5. Digital Editing and Text Modelling: The Case of the Emblem Project Utrecht -- 66 Part III. Digital Annotation Tools -- 74 6. Digital Edition Annotation using EDITOR -- 76 7. A Sane Approach to Annotation in the Digital Edition -- 98 8. Decoding Emblem Semantics -- 116 9. Creating a Metaphor Index -- 132 10. Towards a TEI-Based Encoding Scheme for the Annotation of Parallel Texts -- 150 Part IV. Emblem Studies -- 170 11. A Mirror to the Eyes of the Mind. Metaphor in Otto van Veen's Amoris Divini Emblemata (Antwerp1615) -- 172 12. Playing and Displaying Love. Theatricality in Otto van Veen's Amoris Divini Emblemata (Antwerp1615) -- 186 Part V. Reflections -- 202 13. Mesotext. Framing and Exploring Annotations -- 204 14. Conclusion -- 218 Appendices -- 228 Samenvatting -- 250 Glossary -- List of Abbreviations -- 258 Literature -- 262 Acknowledgements -- 286 Curriculum Vitae -- [287].