Books by Eileen Gardiner

The Digital Humanities is a comprehensive introduction and practical guide to how humanists use the digital to conduct research, organize materials, analyze, and publish findings. It summarizes the turn toward the digital that is reinventing every aspect of the humanities among scholars, libraries, publishers, administrators, and the public. Beginning with some definitions and a brief historical survey of the humanities, the book examines how humanists work, what they study, and how humanists and their research have been impacted by the digital and how, in turn, they shape it. It surveys digital humanities tools and their functions, the digital humanists' environments, and the outcomes and reception of their work. The book pays particular attention to both theoretical underpinnings and practical considerations for embarking on digital humanities projects. It places the digital humanities firmly within the historical traditions of the humanities and in the contexts of current academic and scholarly life.

A bibliographic guide to the scholarly literature on medieval depictions of the Christian otherworld or afterlife that predate Dante. Among them are the apocalypses of Peter and Paul; the visions of Furseus, Charles the Fat, the Monk of Evesham, and others; and St. Patrick's Purgatory . Cites and e