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Handbook of Stemmatology
History, Methodology, Digital Approaches
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Edited by:
Philipp Roelli
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Funded by:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
Open Access / Now in paperback
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.
– First systematic coverage of stemmatology as a field within textual criticism.
– Written by 38 experts in fields from various philologies to biology and information theory.
– Illustrations and many practical examples from a wide range of disciplines are provided to render the content more accessible.
– Written by 38 experts in fields from various philologies to biology and information theory.
– Illustrations and many practical examples from a wide range of disciplines are provided to render the content more accessible.
Author / Editor information
Philipp Roelli, Universität Zurich, Switzerland.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
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1 Textual traditions
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2 The genealogical method
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3 Towards the construction of a stemma
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4 The stemma
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5 Computational methods and tools
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6 Editions
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7 Philological practices
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8 Evolutionary models in other disciplines
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Terminology in other languages
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References
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General Index
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Index of Manuscripts
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List of authors
685
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 7, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9783110684384
Hardcover published on:
September 7, 2020
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110674170
Paperback published on:
June 4, 2024
Paperback ISBN:
9783111551432
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
6
Main content:
688
Illustrations:
88
Coloured Illustrations:
71
eBook ISBN:
9783110684384
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110674170
Paperback ISBN:
9783111551432
Keywords for this book
Textual criticism; stemmatology; descent with modification; Lachmann's method
Audience(s) for this book
students and scholars of various fields involved with texts and their evolution (literary studies, history, medieval studies)
Creative Commons
BY 4.0
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