DLV

Project

Project Team

Project Director

David Rollason (david.rollason@durham.ac.uk), Department of History, University of Durham

Technical Director

Harold Short (harold.short@kcl.ac.uk), Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London

Project Staff

Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk), Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London

John Bradley (john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk), Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London

Willard McCarty (willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk), Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London

Alan Piper (a.j.piper@durham.ac.uk), Archives and Special Collections, Durham University Library

Lynda Rollason (l.s.rollason@tinyworld.co.uk), University of Durham

Andrew Wareham (andrew.wareham@kcl.ac.uk), Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London

Advisory Group

Professor Dr Dieter Geuenich (Gerhard Mercator Universität Duisburg)
Prof. em. Dr Dr h. c. Arnold Angenendt (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster)
Professor Geoffrey Barrow (Edinburgh)
Dr Michelle Brown (British Library)
Dr Janet Burton (University of Wales, Lampeter)
Dr Elizabeth Briggs (West Yorkshire Archive Service)
Dr Ian Doyle (University of Durham)
Prof. David Ganz (King's College, London)
Dr Jan Gerchow (Ruhrlandmuseum Essen)
Mr Michael Gullick (Red Gull Press)
Dr Margaret Harvey (University of Durham)
Dr David Howlett (Medieval Latin Dictionary, University of Oxford)
Professor Simon Keynes (University of Cambridge)
Prof. PhDr. Ivan Hlavácek (Institute of Historical Auxiliary Sciences and Archivistics, Karlsuniversität, Prague)
Dr Katherine Keats-Rohan (Unit for Prosopraphical Research, University of Oxford)
Professor Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge)
Mr John S. Moore (University of Bristol)
Dr David Pelteret (AHRB PASE research project)
Mr Alan Piper (University of Durham)
Dr R. N. Swanson (University of Birmingham)
Dr Jo Story (University of Leicester)
Dr Francesca Tinti (AHRB PASE research project)
Dr Colin Tite (London)

Edition Strategy

The manuscript of the Liber Vitae is difficult if not impossible to edit by conventional printed means. The multiplicity of entries, the complexity of the commentary required, and the disorder of the lists of names in the eleventh-century and later sections (as well as the disorder of those added to earlier sections) poses almost insuperable problems to conventional editions, above all the problem of referencing commentary to individual entries because of the complexity of the page-layouts. On occasion, that layout is itself significant and requires commentary of a type impossible to provide by conventional means. It is therefore essential that a digital edition should be undertaken.

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