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Editing Medieval Texts (Paperback)
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Editing Medieval Texts (Paperback)
Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
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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presentation of) a heretofore unpublished medieval text.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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