(Apologies for cross-posting.)

Dear DM Members,

Below is the CFP for a special session that we are hosting at Kalamazoo next year. We feel that such a hypothetical edition needs to have a digital component and what this component would look and feel like is of interest to many DM members.

Best,

Grant Simpson

Rachel Anderson

Editing Old English: Ælfric's Lives of the Saints

Special Session at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 2012)

2012 marks the 100-year anniversary of the death of W. W. Skeat, the eminent lexicographer and editor of Anglo-Saxon texts. Skeat is known among Ælfric scholars as the editor of the four-volume Lives of Saints (1881-1890). This edition has numerous limitations, including an incomplete scholarly apparatus, a dated translation, and infrequent availability.  A new edition is needed - but what would it look like?  Who would it be for? 

This session will feature papers that examine Skeat's editorial choices and look towards what is needed for a future edition.