Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed
by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers,
cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned
preservation efforts. In this book, Michelle Warren tells the story
of one such manuscript-an Arthurian romance with textual origins in
twelfth-century England now diffused across the twenty-first
century internet. This trajectory has been propelled by a
succession of technologies-from paper manufacture to printing to
computers. Together, they have made literary history itself a
cultural technology indebted to colonial capitalism. Bringing to
bear media theory, medieval literary studies, and book history,
Warren shows how digital infrastructures change texts and books,
even very old ones. In the process, she uncovers a practice of
"tech medievalism" that weaves through the history of computing
since the mid-twentieth century; metaphors indebted to King Arthur
and the Holy Grail are integral to some of the technologies that
now sustain medieval books on the internet. This infrastructural
approach to book history illuminates how the meaning of literature
is made by many people besides canonical authors: translators,
scribes, patrons, readers, collectors, librarians, cataloguers,
editors, photographers, software programmers, and many more.
Situated at the intersections of the digital humanities, library
sciences, literary history, and book history, Holy Digital Grail
offers new ways to conceptualize authorship, canon formation, and
the definition of a "book."
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