@article{Dockray-Miller_Drout_Kinkade_Valerio_2021, title={The Author and the Authors of the ’Vita Ædwardi Regis:’ Women’s Literary Culture and Digital Humanities}, url={https://riviste.unimi.it/interfaces/article/view/14204}, DOI={10.54103/interfaces-08-09}, abstractNote={<p>Commissioned by Queen Edith in the 1060s, the <em>Vita Ædwardi Regis</em> (hereafter <em>VER</em>) has recently received substantial scholarly attention, including focus on identification of the author of this putatively anonymous text; the quest for authorial identification has until now proceeded with the assumption of sole authorship of the text. Lexomics, an open-access vocabulary analysis tool, adds digital strategies to more traditional literary and historical analyses; the Lexomic evidence indicates that the <em>VER </em>is a composite text built by multiple contributors under the direction of the queen. Not only did Edith’s patronage cause the <em>VER </em>to be written, but her knowledge, and her personal and political interests, shaped the <em>Life</em>’s content. Hers was the active, guiding intellect behind the entire text, and in two passages the <em>VER </em>appears not only to communicate the queen’s intentions but also to preserve her voice. If any one person is to be identified as the ’author’ of the <em>VER</em>, therefore, it is Edith, guiding a team of writers and scribes to tell her story.</p>}, number={8}, journal={Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures}, author={Dockray-Miller, Mary and Drout, Michael D.C. and Kinkade, Sarah and Valerio, Jillian}, year={2021}, month={Dec.}, pages={160–213} }