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seenet society for early english and norse electronic texts home about news publications people call for proposals donate latest news in memoriam hoyt duggan hoyt duggan known as dug to all his friends passed away on april 8 2019 a few days after his 81st birthday following a long illness he will be remembered most particularly for establishing and directing the piers plowman electronic archive he was an early enthusiast for electronic texts and at the 1991 medieval congress at kalamazoo he assembled a small team and set it to work on an edition of the eccentric text of langland s poem in corpus christi college oxford ms 201 despite numerous technological problems and editorial issues the edition was published on cd rom in 1999 the first of a series of editions of the b version 1 he generously credited the editorial work to the whole team though it was mainly his own and that of robert adams for this and future editions gail duggan headed a team of transcribers and more editors were drawn into the net by dug s enthusiasm and with his constant support and advice when in 2012 the time came for him to pass on the directorship he made sure that the project now publishing on the internet was in safe hands and had a secure future 2 he and i had been brought together by a mutual interest in the marvellous alliterative poem the wars of alexander on which we corresponded for some years before we actually met we spent a decade editing the poem the work slowed partly by the tardiness of transatlantic snail mail and partly by each of us enthusiastically retreating to entrenched positions which we defended passionately but in the end as we explained in the introduction to the edition we agreed on almost all decisions and recorded those differences which remained unresolved 3 it was a fascinating journey for both of us in order to determine what metrical constraints governed the composition of alliterative verse dug constructed a corpus of nearly 13 000 lines of alliterative verse which he parsed and analysed metrically and then used the computer to sort into syntactic and rhythmic patterns the result was a series of ground breaking studies on alliterative metre beginning with the shape of the b verse in middle english alliterative poetry 4 a couple of studies focused on the metre of piers plowman in which dug argued that langland s practice was surprisingly as rule governed as that of other alliterative poets his later work on the archive convinced him that he had been wrong and he wrote a powerful article admitting his change of mind and the consequences of that for an editor of the poem 5 it demonstrated an intellectual honesty which was entirely characteristic of him he was a profoundly serious scholar and at the same time a witty and generous friend thorlac turville petre in addition to his considerable scholarly output dug was a dedicated and beloved teacher and mentor he taught in the english department at the university of virginia from 1968 until his retirement in 2007 during this time the department s reputation grew to international prominence with medieval literature acknowledged as one of several areas of particular strength dug s high standards for himself and his students and his emphasis on mentoring and professionalization were instrumental in building the strong reputation in early british literature that the department still enjoys today dug s former students may be found on the faculties of numerous universities throughout the u s he is remembered as a selfless and tireless advocate a friend and teacher always willing to go the extra mile to ensure that his students were able to succeed in 2013 as a mark of their affection and their admiration dug s friends and ex students contributed to a festschrift in his honour yee baw for bokes ed michael calabrese and stephen h a shepherd los angeles ca i first met dug as an undergraduate student in one of his medieval literature seminars i remember well a response i received that semester to an email addressed dear professor duggan to request a meeting the reply came back quickly dear tim my friends call me dug how about lunch at the time i knew that i admired the person who stood in front of the class the scholar who had such an easy command of such difficult texts and i knew that he was a model for a life that i was interested in leading but i had no idea just how much of a model and mentor this man would become that brief email exchange meant something to me then as it does now it felt like my entrée into the world of scholarship and indeed in many ways that is what it turned out to be and in so many ways it encapsulates what dug was about it was warm and welcoming it showed no interest in hierarchies or formalities but showed instead interest in a person and his ideas and it is a good example of why dug built such close and productive relationships with so many students over his decades of teaching timothy stinson the piers plowman electronic archive vol 1 oxford corpus christi college ms 201 f ed robert adams hoyt n duggan eric eliason ralph hanna john price wilkin and thorlac turville petre ann arbor mi 1999 the ppea website is http piers chass ncsu edu hoyt n duggan and thorlac turville petre the wars of alexander eets ss 10 oxford 1989 p li speculum 61 1986 564 92 notes on the metre of piers plowman twenty years on in approaches to the metres of alliterative verse ed judith jefferson and ad putter leeds texts and monographs ns 17 leeds 2009 pp 159 86 featured projects piers plowman electronic archive the piers plowman electronic archive a collaborative open access project presents the rich textual tradition of piers plowman a fourteenth century allegorical dream vision attributed to william langland three distinct versions of the poem a b and c survive in more than fifty unique manuscripts none in langland s own hand the digital format of this project enables instructors students and researchers to explore late medieval and manuscript culture through the many variations of piers plowman coming soon siege of jerusalem electronic archive timothy l stinson editor the siege of jerusalem electronic archive presents full transcriptions and accompanying color images of all surviving manuscripts of the siege of jerusalem an anonymous 14th century middle english poem texts and images are accompanied by detailed descriptions of the manuscripts and tools for searching the archive and comparing the variant readings found in all manuscript copies