Mesotext Cover design: René Staelenberg, Amsterdam Lay-out: Peter Boot ISBN 9789089641878 NUR 600/983 © Peter Boot / Pallas Publications – Amsterdam University Press, 2009 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. Mesotext Digitised Emblems, Modelled Annotations and Humanities Scholarship Mesotekst Gedigitaliseerde emblemen, gemodelleerde annotaties en de geesteswetenschappen (met een samenvatting in het Nederlands) Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Utrecht op gezag van de rector magnificus, prof.dr. J.C. Stoof, ingevolge het besluit van het college voor promoties in het openbaar te verdedigen op vrijdag 20 november 2009 des middags te 12.45 uur door Peter Boot geboren op 25 september 1961 te Alphen aan den Rijn Promotoren: Prof.dr. E.M.P. van Gemert Prof.dr. P.W.M. Wackers Co-promotoren: Dr. A.J. Gelderblom Dr. F. Wiering Table of Contents Table of Contents .............................................................................................. 5 Part I. Context of this Study ................................................................................. 11 1 Introduction ............................................................................................ 13 1.1 Subject ........................................................................................... 13 1.2 Field ............................................................................................... 14 1.3 Audience ........................................................................................ 15 1.4 Roadmap for Readers of this Book ................................................ 16 2 An Introduction to Emblem Studies ....................................................... 19 2.1 The Emblem ................................................................................... 19 2.2 Emblem Studies ............................................................................. 26 2.3 Introducing Digital Emblem Studies ............................................... 29 3 Annotating the Digital Edition ................................................................ 31 3.1 Introduction ................................................................................... 31 3.2 Definition ....................................................................................... 31 3.3 Online Annotation in Digital Editions ............................................. 33 3.4 Perspectives on Annotation ........................................................... 39 3.5 Conclusion ...................................................................................... 47 Part II. Emblem Digitisation and the Emblem Project Utrecht ............................ 49 4 A Model for Digital Emblem Editions ...................................................... 51 4.1 The Origins of Emblem Digitisation ............................................... 52 4.2 Basic Orientation ........................................................................... 53 4.3 Four Generic Functionalities .......................................................... 54 4.4 Parameters ..................................................................................... 57 4.5 Technical Infrastructure ................................................................. 60 Table of Contents 4.6 Edition Models Ex Ante and Ex Post ............................................... 61 Appendix ..................................................................................................... 63 5 Digital Editing and Text Modelling: The Case of the Emblem Project Utrecht ............................................................................................................ 65 5.1 XML, XML Schemas and the Text Encoding Initiative .................... 65 5.2 Modelling the Emblem Genre ........................................................ 66 5.3 Emblem Modelling as a Pragmatic Activity .................................... 67 5.4 Emblem Modelling and TEI/XML ................................................... 68 5.5 Discussion ...................................................................................... 71 Part III. Digital Annotation Tools .......................................................................... 73 6 Digital Edition Annotation using EDITOR ................................................ 75 6.1 Introduction ................................................................................... 75 6.2 Context and Motivation ................................................................. 76 6.3 Requirements and Issues ............................................................... 78 6.4 Design ............................................................................................ 82 6.5 The Program .................................................................................. 85 6.6 EDITOR in Use ................................................................................ 86 6.7 Conclusion ...................................................................................... 95 7 A SANE Approach to Annotation in the Digital Edition ........................... 97 7.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 97 7.2 Related Work ................................................................................. 98 7.3 Introducing SANE ........................................................................... 99 7.4 Prototype ..................................................................................... 106 7.5 Discussion .................................................................................... 111 7.6 Conclusions and Future Work ...................................................... 113 8 Decoding Emblem Semantics ............................................................... 115 8.1 Introduction ............................................................................... 115 8.2 Use Cases: Emblematological Questions ..................................... 117 6 Table of Contents 8.3 Related Work ............................................................................... 117 8.4 An Informal Sign Model ............................................................... 118 8.5 Representation of the Sign Model ............................................... 119 8.6 Answering the Questions ............................................................. 126 8.7 Future Work ................................................................................. 128 8.8 Discussion .................................................................................... 129 9 Creating a Metaphor Index ................................................................... 131 9.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 131 9.2 Literary Modelling ........................................................................ 132 9.3 Modelling ..................................................................................... 135 9.4 An Application Prototype ............................................................. 140 9.5 Discussion .................................................................................... 146 10 Towards a TEI-Based Encoding Scheme for the Annotation of Parallel Texts 149 10.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 149 10.2 Related Work ............................................................................... 150 10.3 Requirements............................................................................... 151 10.4 TEI Representation of Annotations .............................................. 154 10.5 Conclusion .................................................................................... 165 Part IV. Emblem Studies .................................................................................... 169 11 A Mirror to the Eyes of the Mind. Metaphor in Otto van Veen’s Amoris Divini Emblemata (Antwerp 1615) ................................................................ 171 11.1 Introduction ............................................................................... 171 11.2 Mentis sol amor dei ..................................................................... 172 11.3 Metaphor ..................................................................................... 173 11.4 Superna respicit ........................................................................... 175 11.5 Gravata respuit – Allegory ........................................................... 178 11.6 Author and Reader ....................................................................... 180 7 Table of Contents 12 Playing and Displaying Love. Theatricality in Otto van Veen’s Amoris Divini Emblemata (Antwerp 1615) .............................................................. 185 12.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 185 12.2 Frozen Theatricality ..................................................................... 186 12.3 Gestures ....................................................................................... 189 12.4 The Emblem and the Audience ...................................................