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With the burgeoning importance of electronic research in general, and the Internet and World Wide Web in particular, it seemed useful to launch a project at this time which would explore the usefulness of these media for the serious english-language College and Graduate Student doing research on the Byzantine Empire. The goals of such a project would be two-fold:
First, to see just how much useful information could be garnered in a relatively simple search, not requiring a surfeit of technical computer ability;
Second, to arrange and compile the results into a database, which could itself be used as a resource for researchers to simplify and augment their own searches.
In February 1999, at the suggestion of my academic advisor, The Rev. Dr. Eugene Ludwig, OFM Cap., Dean of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, I undertook the study described above. What follows are the results.
Before examining the database, which contains the 373 entries that survived the various cuts to make the final list, it will be helpful to consider the methodology, both technical and academic, that went into its creation. Finally, some reflections and conclusions will complete this introductory section.
Since one of the main purposes of this project was to assist other researchers, the bulk of the present results are the database itself, which is somewhat helpful in written form, and a great deal more so in its electronic incarnation in the Web version of this project report: http://members.aol.com/frsteven/academic.
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