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The excitement of scholarship finding new answers to old questions --COMPUTERS AND TEXTSThis is the third in the series of'single-tale' CD-ROMs prepared by the Canterbury Tales Project: that forthe Wife of Bath's Prologue won the English Association's 1998Beatrice White award for an outstanding contribution to medieval andrenaissance studies. Like its fellows in the series, this CD-ROMcontains a f... More

The excitement of scholarship finding new answers to old questions --COMPUTERS AND TEXTSThis is the third in the series of'single-tale' CD-ROMs prepared by the Canterbury Tales Project: that forthe Wife of Bath's Prologue won the English Association's 1998Beatrice White award for an outstanding contribution to medieval andrenaissance studies. Like its fellows in the series, this CD-ROMcontains a full set of materials for study of the text in all extantfifteenth-century witnesses: fifty-five manuscripts and four incunabula.The whole text of the tale and associated links in every witness istranscribed, with a digital image of every one of the 1200 pages alsogiven. The images, now of enhanced quality, are mostly grey-scale, withsome full-colour images. The transcripts are linked to full collationsin both regularized and unregularized forms, and to thoroughdescriptions of each manuscript (provided by Dan Mosser). A stemmaticanalysis and commentary offer an overview of the whole tradition, withdiscussion of individual readings. A spelling database, fully organizedby manuscript and lexical cateories, gives access to all 300,000 wordsin the witnesses; the new interface offers advanced searches over thewhole text and spelling database and easy navigation throughout all thedata included on the CD. Institutional licence: you may mount this publication on a single networked installation with no more than twenty computers connected to it, and you may make one copy of the data on a hard disc. No other copies of the data on this CD-ROM may be made. You may lend this CD-ROM to members of the institutions, who may project images from this CD for instructional use.

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