BLOGPOST: Simon BURROWS & Glenn ROE, "Digitizing the Enlightenment" (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment)

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First paragraph:

Simon Burrows and Glenn Roe are the editors of the July volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies, which is the first book length survey of the impact of digital humanities on our understanding of a key historical period and paradigm. In this blog post, they explore how Digitizing Enlightenment began and developed, and how various datasets and projects have helped scholars to shed new light on the Enlightenment period.

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