Peter A. Stokes

Senior Lecturer
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
2nd Floor, 26–29 Drury Lane
London W2CB 5RL
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
Twitter: @pa_stokes

Publications

Journal Articles

  • 'The Vision of Leofric: Manuscript Text and Context', Review of English Studies Advanced Access (2011). doi:10.1093/res/hgr052
  • 'The Digital Dictionary', Florilegium 26 (2009): 37–69. A study of the use of technology in the Dictionary of Old English
  • 'King Edgar's Charter for Pershore (AD 972)', Anglo-Saxon England 37 (2008): 31–78. doi:10.1017/S0263675109990159
  • 'Palaeography and Image Processing: Some Solutions and Problems', Digital Medievalist 3 (2007/8). <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/3/stokes/>
  • 'The Regius Psalter, 198v: A Reexamination', Notes & Queries 54 (2007): 208–11. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjm152
  • 'Shoots and Vines: Some Models for the Ascenders and Descenders of English Vernacular Minuscule', Quaestio: Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, 5 (2005): 98–109
  • 'The Problem of Grade in Post-Conquest Vernacular Minuscule', in Producing and Using English Manuscripts in the Post-Conquest Period, ed. by E. Treharne, O. Da Rold and M. Swan. Special issue of New Medieval Literatures 13 (2011, forthcoming) 7,500 words

Proceedings and Chapters in Books

  • 'Palaeography and the "Virtual Library" of Manuscripts', in Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture, ed. by B. Nelson and M. Terras. New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 3 (Arizona, forthcoming) In proof; 8,500 words
  • 'Recovering Anglo-Saxon Erasures: Some Questions, Tools and Techniques', in Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England, ed. by L. Carruthers, R. Chai-Elsholz and T. Silec (New York, 2011), 35–60.
  • 'Rewriting the Bounds: Pershore's Powick and Leigh', in Place-Names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape, ed. by N.J. Higham and M.J. Ryan (Woodbridge, 2011), 195–206.
  • 'Teaching Manuscripts in the "Digital Age"', in Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter 2 — Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2, ed. by F. Fischer, C. Fritze and G. Vogeler, in collaboration with B. Assmann, M Rehbein and P. Sahle. Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 3 (Norderstedt, 2010), 229–45. urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43521
  • E. Pierazzo and P.A. Stokes, 'Putting the Text back into Context: A Codicological Approach to Manuscript Transcription', in Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter 2 — Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 2, ed. by F. Fischer, C. Fritze and G. Vogeler, in collaboration with B. Assmann, M Rehbein and P. Sahle. Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 3 (Norderstedt, 2010), 397–430. urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-43605
  • 'Computer-Aided Palaeography, Present and Future', in Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter — Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age, ed. by M. Rehbein, P. Sahle and T. Schaan, unter Mitarbeit von Bernhard Assman, Franz Fischer und Christiane Fritze. Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 2 (Norderstedt, 2009), 313–42. urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-29782. 1,500-word abstract published in Digital Humanities 2009: Conference Abstracts (College Park, MD, 2009), 266–8. <http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/?page_id=99>
  • P.A. Stokes and E. Pierazzo, 'Encoding the Language of Landscape: XML and Databases at the Service of Anglo-Saxon Lexicography', Perspectives on Lexicography in Italy and Europe, ed. by S. Bruti, R. Cella, and M. Foschi Albert (Newcastle, 2009), 203–38.

Digital Resources

  • Principal Investigator: Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic. <http://digipal.eu/>, King's College London (2011). Project website and blog.
  • Sole Analyst and Developer: The Electronic Sawyer (2010/11 release). <http://www.esawyer.org.uk/>, King's College London (2011).
  • Lead Analyst; Developer: Anglo-Saxon Cluster. <http://www.ascluster.org/>, King's College London (2010).
  • Sole analyst and developer: HandAnalyser and ImageViewer software (first 'alpha' release 30 Sept. 2009). <http://sourceforge.net/projects/handanalyser/> Java software for quantitative palaeographical analysis and for viewing and enhancing images of damaged manuscripts, as described in contributions to Rehbein et al. and Carruthers et al. respectively.
  • Research Associate; Database-related development: LangScape: The Language of Landscape: Reading the Anglo-Saxon Countryside. <http://www.langscape.org.uk/>, version 0.9 (2008).

Encyclopedia Entries, Booklets and Book Reviews