About

Author of five books and over thirty articles on medieval subjects, Dr. Gwara teaches medieval English, Epic, and Arthurian literature.  He maintains research interests in three primary areas:

• Old English literature
• Anglo-Latin and pre-conquest education
• Manuscript studies  

Dr. Gwara has recently founded a Web-based archive of 120 medieval manuscripts in South Carolina collections, which can be found at http://www.scmanuscripts.org/.  Dr. Gwara's homepage is: http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/faculty_pages/gwara/gwara.html

Projects

The Digital Humanities Initiative@USC and the Thomas Cooper Library announce the launch of MS-LINK, a Web-based digital resource for re-unifying dismembered medieval manuscripts.

• MS-LINK is a large-scale digitization initiative intended to preserve and publicize medieval manuscripts contextually important for research and teaching in Medieval Studies.
• MS-LINK is an innovative and powerful Finding Aid built on an extensible database with comprehensive and accurate bibliographical records on thousands of pre-1600 manuscript fragments in North America.
• MS-LINK comprises a suite of Internet applications that digitally reconstruct dismembered leaves as codices, restoring their coherence and meaning as texts. MS-LINK technology will include a Page-Turner application, METS-based and Dublin Core-compliant page description, and image navigation with Pan + Zoom and Juxtapose & Compare features.

MS-LINK is designed for K-12 educators as well as specialists in the disciplines of Manuscript Studies, Art, Literature, History, and Theology.