Coming into the Summer Fellowship, the aspect of my project that I was most worried about was the coding. While I am fairly functional, if not precisely fluent, with most technologies, delving beneath the surface level into the murky chasms of coding was a scary step to take. As I sit here reflecting upon myContinue reading “[Data] Mining For Medieval Messengers: Part 2”
Author Archives: PJ Zaborowski
[Data] Mining for Medieval Messengers
Prior to Samuel Morse’s invention of the telegraph in the first half of the nineteenth century, communication technology was chiefly limited to oral or textual messages delivered by a messenger. British sci-fi savant Arthur C. Clarke expands upon this fact, stating that “When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, she had no swifterContinue reading “[Data] Mining for Medieval Messengers”
Behind the scenes: On facing failure and preparing for a new beginning
My digital capstone experience has been a learning experience in the best possible way. That is to say that, while I didn’t accomplish nearly as much as I had hoped to get done, I did learn a great deal which will make my digital humanities work more effective and efficient in the future. Cleaning theContinue reading “Behind the scenes: On facing failure and preparing for a new beginning”
Mining for Medieval Messengers
My dissertation, “Messengers and Messages in Middle English Literature,” examines the under-explored role of messengers in fourteenth-century English romances, where they often prove to be crucial elements of the plot or interesting stand-ins for an authorial function. During my capstone experience, I will be pursuing corpus linguistic investigations, with the help of the Digital Studio’sContinue reading “Mining for Medieval Messengers”