Critical Exploration of Medieval Philosophy with Digital Humanities Tools: Challenges and Solutions

In the last few years, the Digital Humanities have gained more and more attention from the medievalists because of the perceived advantages in encoding and analyzing digital critical editions. But there are many challenges for the scholars working on medieval philosophical texts. We shall try to identify some of these challenges and to discuss some solutions on three subjects: critical editions in digital format, organizing a digital corpus, and computer analysis. A general conclusion emerges from the principles and illustrations discussed here: the issues must be addressed through critical thinking in order to achieve relevant and accurate results.

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