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| Title: | On editing two medieval chronicles1 |
| Contributor: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Author: | Aengus Ward |
| Description: | The business of editing medieval manuscripts has always been bedevilled with academic wrangling over the validity of the exercise in the first instance and the validity of practical solutions which flow from theoretical choices made by editors who dare to undertake such hazardous work. Editing necessarily involves an on-going dialogue between theory and practice, and the present contribution to the debate arises precisely from the practical experience of editing, in this case two medieval Iberian chronicles, the Estoria delos Godos and the Sumario Analístico de la Historia Gothica. In consequence, what follows deals with the practical solutions employed to resolve those problems which arose in the act of editing these particular chronicles. However, although this will involve the extrapolation of theory from practice this cannot be described as a fully rounded statement of editorial theory. In the first instance, and as a consequence of the individual nature of each edition, it is not clear that the practical solutions arrived at necessarily have a theoretical value beyond the edition in question; furthermore, it is clear that no edition can be described as definitive, for which reason the statement of editorial theory provided must be sufficiently dynamic to allow for the possibility of change, or indeed, human frailty on the part of its designer. Nonetheless, particular solutions arrived at in response |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/73336 |
| Other Identifier: | http://www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/volumes/volume_06/Articles/Ward.pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.627.6777 |
| AMAD ID: | 568371 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
