Cladistics or the Resurrection of the Method of Lachmann

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Prologue vii
4. Part I: Methodological Approaches
5. Cladistics or the Resurrection of the Method of Lachmann 3
6. Computer-Assisted Stemmatic Analysis and ‘Best-Text’ Historical Editing 71
7. Shock Waves in Text Traditions 105
8. Clustering Stemmatological Trees 123
9. Weighted Formal Support of a Pedigree 135
10. The Analysis of Early Islamic Traditions and Chains of Transmission 169
11. Part II: Subject-Related Observations
12. Medieval Dossiers and Modern Stemmas 209
13. Textual Incompatibility and Many-Pronged Stemmata 233
14. Part III: Applications to Manuscript Traditions
15. Which Variants are Useful in Discovering the Deep Structure of the Manuscript Tradition of a Text? 249
16. From Variant to Pedigree in the Charroi de Nîmes 263
17. Index 305