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Editing Medieval Texts: An Introduction, Using Exemplary Materials Derived from Richard Rolle, 'super Canticum' 4 - Rilegato

Hanna, Ralph

 
9781781382721: Editing Medieval Texts: An Introduction, Using Exemplary Materials Derived from Richard Rolle, 'super Canticum' 4
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ISBN 10: 1781382727 ISBN 13: 9781781382721
Casa editrice: Liverpool Univ Pr, 2015

Sinossi

This book draws on a lengthy experience of teaching graduates how to approach medieval books. It leads the reader through the stages of the editorial process, using part of Richard Rolle's Commentary on the Song of Songs as the working exemplar. In the humane sciences, the need for texts is ubiquitous; they provide the regular objects of study. But far less prevalent than editions is any discussion of the premises underlying these objects, or the mechanisms by which they have been constructed. This volume takes up both challenges. First, in a preliminary chapter, it discusses what is at stake in any edition one might read; the persistent argument is that these represent products of modern scholarly decision-making, the imposition of various kinds of unity on the extremely diverse evidence medieval books offer for any literary work. This chapter also explains broadly various options for the presentation of texts - and the difficulties inherent in them all. The remainder of the volume is given over to a step-by-step guide to the process of editing (and eventually to a finished presentation of) a heretofore unpublished medieval text. The discussion seeks to exemplify the decisions editors routinely face, and to suggest ways of addressing them.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ralph Hanna is Professor Emeritus of Palaeography at the University of Oxford and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University of California, his previous books include Introducing English Medieval Book History (Liverpool University Press, 2013).

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Editore
Liverpool Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1781382727
ISBN 13 
9781781382721
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
183
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