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The successful transmediation of books and documents through digitization requires the synergetic partnership of many professional figures, that have what may sometimes appear as contrasting goals at heart. On one side, there are those who look after the physical objects and strive to preserve them for future generations, and on the other those involved in the digitization of the objects, the information that they contain, and the management of the digital data. These complementary activities are generally considered as separate and when the current literature addresses both fields, it does so strictly within technical reports and guidelines, concentrating on procedures and optimal workflow, standards, and technical metadata. In particular, more often than not, conservation is presented as ancillary to digitization, with the role of the conservator restricted to the preparation of items for scanning, with no input into the digital product, leading to misunderstanding and clashes of interests. Surveying a variety of projects and approaches to the challenging conservation-digitization balance and fostering a dialogue amongst practitioners, this book aims at demonstrating that a dialogue between apparently contrasting fields not only is possible, but it is in fact desirable and fruitful. Only through the synergetic collaboration of all people involved in the digitization process, conservators included, can cultural digital objects that represent more fully the original objects and their materiality be generated, encouraging and enabling new research and widening the horizons of scholarship.

Describes the Almoravid transformation of western North Africa through trans-Saharan and trans-Mediterranean commerce, urbanization, and the epic encounter with the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures of Iberia.

The concept of the Rus' Land became and remained an historical myth of modern Russian nationalism as the equivalent of "Russia." This book looks at the history of the use of the concept of the Rus' Land from the tenth to the seventeenth century.

This volume examines new ways to design, develop, explore, and visualize spatial datasets to investigate spatial dimensions and world perceptions in pre-modern sources and societies.

These teaching and reference materials paint a vivid picture of the kinds of French that medieval English learners might desire to wield and of the high levels of fluency they could achieve.

This book examines Chaucer's Canterbury Tales from the perspective of the current debate about race and religion in the Middle Ages, uniting Chaucerian Studies with a crucial contemporary debate in Medieval Studies.

An annual publication of historiographical essays on the pre-modern world; this issue celebrating the life and work of Paul E. Szarmach.

A comparative analysis tackling the impact of the growth of centralized government on elite women's power in later twelfth- and thirteenth-century Boulogne and northern France.

Grounds mythologized stories of Desert Ascetics with insights into lived monasticism and monastic archaeology in Egypt.

Evidence that the Second Plague Pandemic was already ravaging China by the early thirteenth century--over a century before it made its virulent appearance in the Mediterranean.

Analyzes how biblical analogy functioned as a religio-political tool for Elizabeth across her reign, and argues that their widespread use demonstrates their potency as a tool for legitimizing and sustaining her power.

This volume examines new ways to design, develop, explore, and visualize spatial datasets to investigate spatial dimensions and world perceptions in pre-modern sources and societies.

This book provides a concise overview of the history of Polynesia, focusing on New Zealand and its outlying islands, during the period 900-1600. It provides a thematic examination of Polynesia to avoid placing the region's history into an inaccurate, linear Western chronology. The themes of movement and migration, adaptation and change, and development and expansion offer the optimal means of understanding Polynesia during this time. Through this innovative and unique perspective on Polynesian history, which has not been previously undertaken, the reader is encouraged to think about regions outside Europe in relation to the premodern period.

The concept of the Rus' Land became and remained an historical myth of modern Russian nationalism as the equivalent of "Russia." This book looks at the history of the use of the concept of the Rus' Land from the tenth to the seventeenth century.

This study shows the importance of carolling in the celebrations and festivities of medieval Britain and demonstrates its longevity from the eleventh century to the sixteenth.

This book examines how the military orders and the ideology of crusading gave rise to a new sacred landscape in the medieval Baltic region, an outpost of Latin Christianity.

This book argues that the causes that led to the Islamization of most of the Holy Land's population from the seventh century onwards, as well as the survival of some religious communities, are essentially social and geographic in nature, rather than theological.