Introduction: The Roman de la Rose and Christine de Pizan in the Digital Age

This issue of Digital Philology celebrates the merger of two digital repositories of medieval manuscripts, one devoted to the Roman de la Rose, the other, to the early fifteenth-century author and bookmaker, Christine de Pizan (1365–c.1430). The three essays in Part I illustrate how debates initiated in the original text of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun are carried on in several fourteenth-and fifteenth-century Rose manuscripts. The two essays in Part II study how digital technology enriches our understanding of Christine's masterpiece, her Queen's Manuscript, London, British Library, MS Harley 4431, and her Livre des fais d'armes et de chevalerie.