In reading Burnard’s piece on hermeneutics and TEI, I first found myself reacting to his reminder that a text “is simultaneously an image…a linguistic construct…and an information structure.” For medieval manuscripts and their context, a text’s status as image is immediately apparent for paleographers and art historians whose work centers on the material object; scholars publishing an edition, whether as a physical book or a digital version, have tended to produce (until recently) a version of the text somewhat divorced from this original context. The possibility of reinforcing that image-to-text relationship through digital editing is one of the prospects that I found most enticing in preparing for this workshop, especially from a pedagogical standpoint. Medieval literature can sometimes pose daunting challenges for the novice undergraduate reader, and a sense of the text as a visual (and where possible, material) object can enhance appreciation for readers who find themselves repelled by a text’s initial difficulties.