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Introduction: Situating Digital Archives
- Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2014
- pp. 169-177
- 10.1353/dph.2014.0014
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By way of introduction to this cluster of essays inspired by the Middle English Prose Brut manuscript purchased by Dartmouth College in 2006, this essay considers how the competing pressures of access and preservation condition scholarship in medieval studies. I suggest several analogies between broad conceptions of the digital humanities and the specific contours of digital philology.