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This book investigates the role of the Latin language as a vehicle
for science and learning from several angles. First, the question
what was understood as 'science' through time and how it is named
in different languages, especially the Classical ones, is
approached. Criteria for what did pass as scientific are found that
point to 'science' as a kind of Greek Denkstil based on
pattern-finding and their unbiased checking. In a second part, a
brief diachronic panorama introduces schools of thought and authors
who wrote in Latin from antiquity to the present. Latin's heydays
in this function are clearly the time between the twelfth and
eighteenth centuries. Some niches where it was used longer are
examined and reasons sought why Latin finally lost this lead-role.
A third part seeks to define the peculiar characteristics of
scientific Latin using corpus linguistic approaches. As a result,
several types of scientific writing can be identified. The question
of how to transfer science from one linguistic medium to another is
never far: Latin inherited this role from Greek and is in turn the
ancestor of science done in the modern vernaculars. At the end of
the study, the importance of Latin science for modern science in
English becomes evident.
Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use
genealogical methods to analyse a set of copies of a text whose
autograph has been lost. This handbook is the first to cover the
entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects
of traditional as well as modern digital methods and their history.
As an art (ars), stemmatology's main goal is editing and thus
presenting to the reader a historical text in the most satisfactory
way. As a more abstract discipline (scientia), it is interested in
the general principles of how texts change in the process of being
copied. Thirty eight experts from all of the fields involved have
joined forces to write this handbook, whose eight chapters cover
material aspects of text traditions, the genesis and methods of
traditional "Lachmannian" textual criticism and the objections
raised against it, as well as modern digital methods used in the
field. The two concluding chapters take a closer look at how this
approach towards texts and textual criticism has developed in some
disciplines of textual scholarship and compare methods used in
other fields that deal with "descent with modification". The
handbook thus serves as an introduction to this interdisciplinary
field.
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