Peter A. Stokes

All publications are single-authored unless otherwise specified.

Monographs

• English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut, circa 990 – circa 1035, Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies 14 (Cambridge, 2014). xii + 207 pp., incl. indexes, glossary, 10 figs. and 20 plates. ISBN: 9781843843696
  • Winner, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS) Prize for Best Research Aid, 2013–5.
  • Selected Reviews:
    • P.W. Conner, Review of English Studies 66 (2015): 766–7. doi:10.1093/res/hgv014
    • F.J. Steele, The Medieval Review 15.05.04. <http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/18874/24984>
    • J. Willoughby, Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections [AMARC] Newsletter 64 (2015): 24–6. <http://www.amarc.org.uk/Newsletter64.pdf>
    • E. Kwakkel, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 91:2 (2016): 561–2. doi:10.1086/685532

Major Digital Resources (as Project Leader, Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator)

• Project Leader: Archetype [formerly The DigiPal Framework] (open-source software for the analysis and presentation of palaeographical material and texts). <https://archetype.kdl.kcl.ac.uk>, King's College London (2011–).
  • Implements new model for handwriting as described by Stokes, 'Digital Resources and Database' (2011), Brookes et al. (2015), Stokes, Brookes et al. (2016), Stokes 'Modelling Medieval Handwriting' (2012) below.
  • Awarded the Medieval Academy of America prize for best Digital Humanities project (2016).
• Co-Investigator: Exon: The Domesday Survey of South-West England, ed. P.A. Stokes, King's College London (2015–17). Available at <http://www.exondomesday.ac.uk>
• Co-Investigator: Models of Authority: Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government 1100–1250. <http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk>, King's College London (2015–17).
• Principal Investigator and Director: Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic. <http://digipal.eu/>, King's College London (2011–14).
• 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.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Scribal Attribution Across Multiple Scripts: A Digitally-Aided Approach, Speculum 92 (2017): S65–85. doi:10.1086/693968
• Digital Approaches to Palaeography and Book History: Some Challenges, Present and Future, Frontiers in Digital Humanities 2:5 (2015). doi:10.3389/fdigh.2015.00005 'Specialty Grand Challenge' article
• T. Blanke, E. Pierazzo and P.A. Stokes, Digital Publishing: Experiences in the Digital Humanities, Logos 25 (2014): 16–27. doi:10.1163/1878-4712-11112041
• T. Hassner, M. Rehbein, P.A. Stokes and L. Wolf (eds), Computation and Palaeography: Potentials and Limits, Dagstuhl Manifestos 2 (2013): 14–35. doi:10.4230/DagMan.2.1.14 Full-length peer-reviewed version
  • Summary published in Informatik Spektrum 36:2 (2013): 196–98. doi:10.1007/s00287-013-0690-3
  • Reprinted in Kodikologie und Paläographie im Digitalen Zeitalter 3 — Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age 3, ed. by O. Duntze et al. Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 10 (Norderstedt, 2015), pp. 1–27. urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-76986
• The Vision of Leofric: Manuscript Text and Context, Review of English Studies 63 (2012): 529–50. doi:10.1093/res/hgr052. Open Access copy also available
• The Problem of Grade in Post-Conquest Vernacular Minuscule, New Medieval Literatures 13 (2011): 23–47. doi:10.1484/J.NML.1.102438
• Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic, Gazette du livre médiéval 56–57 (2011): 141–2. doi:10.3406/galim.2011.1991
• M. Maniaci et al., Table ronde. Applications actuelles de l’informatique à la paléographie: quelles méthodes pour quelles finalité́s?, Gazette du livre médiéval 56–57 (2011): 119–30. <http://www.persee.fr/doc/galim_0753-5015_2011_num_56_1_1986>
• The Digital Dictionary, Florilegium 26 (2009): 37–69. <http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/flor/article/view/18446/25553> 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. Open Access copy also available
• Palaeography and Image Processing: Some Solutions and Problems, Digital Medievalist 3 (2007/8). doi:10.16995/dm.15
• 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: Selected Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic 5 (2005): 98–109.

Peer-Reviewed Proceedings and Chapters in Books

• Rule and Variation in Eleventh-Century Minuscule Script. In Ruling the Script: Formal Aspects of Medieval Written Communication (Books, Charters, and Inscriptions), ed. by S. Barret, D. Stutzmann and G. Vogeler. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 35 (Turnhout, 2016), pp. 489–508. doi:10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112447
• S. Brookes, P.A. Stokes, M. Watson, and Débora Marques de Matos, The DigiPal Project for European Scripts and Decorations, in Writing Europe 500–1450: Texts and Contexts, ed. by A. Conti, O. da Rold and P. Shaw. Essays and Studies n.s. 68 (2015): 25–58.
• 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 (Tempe, AZ, 2012), pp. 137–69.
• 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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 Assmann, Franz Fischer und Christiane Fritze. Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik 2 (Norderstedt, 2009), pp. 313–42. urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-29782. Full-length peer-reviewed version
  • Peer-reviewed summary published as Digital Humanities 2009: Conference Abstracts (College Park, MD, 2009), pp. 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, in Perspectives on Lexicography in Italy and Europe, ed. by S. Bruti, R. Cella, and M. Foschi Albert (Newcastle, 2009), pp. 203–38.

Working Papers, Reports and Peer-Reviewed Abstracts

• P.A. Stokes, S. Brookes, G. Noël, J.R. Davies, T. Webber, D. Broun, A. Taylor, and J. Tucker, J. The Models of Authority Project: Extending the DigiPal Framework for Script and Decoration, in Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts, ed. by Maciej Eder and Jan Rybicki (Krakow, 2016), pp. 896-99. <http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/387>
• The Problem of Digital Dating: A Model for Uncertainty in Medieval Documents, in Digital Humanities 2015 Book of Abstracts (Sydney, 2015). <http://dh2015.org/abstracts/xml/STOKES_Peter_Anthony_The_Problem_of_Digital_Datin/STOKES_Peter_Anthony_The_Problem_of_Digital_Dating__A_M.html>
• Describing Handwriting – Again, in Digital Palaeography: New Machines and Old Texts, ed. by T. Hassner, R. Sablatnig, D. Stutzmann and S. Tarte. Dagstuhl Reports 4:7 (2014): 127–8. doi:10.4230/DagRep.4.7.112
• P.A. Stokes, S. Brookes, G. Noël, G. Buomprisco, D. Marques de Matos and M. Watson, The DigiPal Framework for Script and Image, Digital Humanities 2014 Book of Abstracts (Lausanne, 2014), pp. 512–14. <http://dharchive.org/paper/DH2014/Poster-193.xml>. Poster available at <http://www.digipal.eu/media/uploads/uploads/images/blog_posts/2014/DH2014%20Poster.pdf>.
• B. Maher, K. Steinhofel and Peter Stokes, Automated Image Segmentation Methods for Digitally-Assisted Palaeography of Medieval Manuscripts. Technical Report TR-13-02, Dept. of Informatics and Dept. of Digital Humanities, King's College London (London, 2013). <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/research/techreports/assets/TR-13-02.pdf>.
• N. Levy, L. Wolf and P.A. Stokes, Document Classification Based on What is There and What Should Be There, in Digital Humanities 2013: Conference Abstracts (Lincoln, NE, 2013), pp. 279–82. <http://dh2013.unl.edu/abstracts/ab-303.html>
• T. Hassner, M. Rehbein, P.A. Stokes and L. Wolf (eds), Computation and Palaeography: Potentials and Limits (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 12382), Dagstuhl Reports 2 (2012): 184–199. doi:10.4230/DagRep.2.9.184
  • Includes P.A. Stokes, Bringing the Digital to Palaeography: Some Background and Challenges, pp. 156–7.
• Modeling Medieval Handwriting: A New Approach to Digital Palaeography, in DH2012 Book of Abstracts, ed. by Jan Christoph Meister et al. (Hamburg, 2012), pp. 382–5. <http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/modeling-medieval-handwriting-a-new-approach-to-digital-palaeography>
• N. Levy, L. Wolf, N. Dershowitz and P.A. Stokes, 'Estimating the Distinctiveness of Graphemes and Allographs in Palaeographic Classification', in DH2012 Book of Abstracts, ed. by Jan Christoph Meister et al. (Hamburg, 2012), pp. 264–7. <http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/estimating-the-distinctiveness-of-graphemes-and-allographs-in-palaeographic-classification/>
• Describing Handwriting, Part I [and following] (London, 2011–). <http://www.digipal.eu/blogs/tag/describing-handwriting/>
• P.A. Stokes and Geoffroy Noël, Anglo-Saxon Cluster Project Report (London, 2010). <http://www.ascluster.org/techinfo/index.html> On integrating digital resources via web services for medieval studies.

Other Digital Resources (as Analyst, Developer and/or Research Associate)

• 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).
• 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

• Three articles in the Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms, Methods, Trends, ed. by A. Classen, 3 vols (Berlin, 2010).
  • N.R. Ker, 3:2398–401. doi:10.1515/9783110215588.2398
  • E.A. Lowe, 3:2484–87. doi:10.1515/9783110215588.2484
  • Scripts, 2:1217–33. doi:10.1515/9783110215588.1217
• Ten articles in The Literary Encyclopedia, ed. by R. Clark et al.:
  • The Vercelli Book (2009): <http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5767>
  • The Beowulf Manuscript (2008): <http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5552>
  • Junius 11 (2008): <http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5553>
  • Codicology (2006): <http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1679>
  • Cynewulf (2006): <http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1102>
  • Sir Robert Cotton (2006): <http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1034>
  • John Joscelyn (2006): <http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11743>
  • Lawrence Nowell (2006): <http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11744>
  • Matthew Parker (2006): <http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3481>
  • Humfrey Wanley (2006): <http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11742>
• D.N. Dumville and P.A. Stokes, Liber Vitae Dunelmensis (Trial Version, 2 parts, Cambridge, ASNC 2001)
• Review of A.R. Rumble, ed., Writing and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge, 2006), for English Historical Review 124 (2009): 113–14. doi:10.1093/ehr/cen421
• Review of D.P. O'Donnell, Cædmon's Hymn: A Multimedia Study, Edition and Archive (Woodbridge, 2005), for Digital Medievalist 5 (2009). doi:10.16995/dm.21

Forthcoming (full text submitted and accepted for publication)

• Insular Script. In The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography, ed. by R.G. Babcock and F. Coulson (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 12,250 words
• P.A. Stokes and E. Pierazzo, The New Textual Technologies. In A New Companion to the History of the Book, ed. by J. Rose and S. Elliott (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell). Invited chapter; 6,000 words
• Change and Variation in Eleventh-Century English Script. In Change in Medieval and Renaissance Scripts and Manuscripts, ed. by M. Schubert and E. Overgaauw (Turnhout: Brepols). 6,000 words
• Computing and Palaeography in Theory: Putting the Palaeographer in Charge. In Digital Palaeography, ed. by S. Brookes, M. Rehbein and P.A. Stokes (London: Routledge). 6,000 words