Handbook of Stemmatology

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Handbook of Stemmatology

History, Methodology, Digital Approaches

Funded by: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Edited by: Philipp Roelli

In the series De Gruyter Reference

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684384

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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.

Author information

Philipp Roelli, Universität Zurich, Switzerland.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	v
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
1 Textual traditions Elisabet Göransson Open Access Download PDF	9
2 The genealogical method Odd Einar Haugen Open Access Download PDF	57
3 Towards the construction of a stemma Marina Buzzoni Open Access Download PDF	139
4 The stemma Tara Andrews Open Access Download PDF	208
5 Computational methods and tools Joris van Zundert Open Access Download PDF	292
6 Editions Aidan Conti Open Access Download PDF	357
7 Philological practices Caroline Macé Open Access Download PDF	437
8 Evolutionary models in other disciplines Armin Hoenen Open Access Download PDF	534
Terminology in other languages Open Access Download PDF	587
References Open Access Download PDF	597
General Index Open Access Download PDF	667
Index of Manuscripts Open Access Download PDF	683
List of authors Open Access Download PDF	685

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: students and scholars of various fields involved with texts and their evolution (literary studies, history, medieval studies)
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 688
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 88
- Coloured Illustrations: 71
Keywords: Textual criticism; stemmatology; descent with modification; Lachmann's method

eBook

Published: September 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110684384

Hardcover

Published: September 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110674170