Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century (Texts and Transitions) - Hardcover

Vincent Gillespie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2503536832 ISBN 13: 9782503536835

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Editing as an academic mode of work has had a variable 'press' - it is often seen as just plumbing. But without editions no historian of whatever critical persuasion could operate. Texts that are not edited are effectively invisible. The advent of electronic means of text production has also raised new possibilities and new problems that need to be openly considered rather than ignored. The papers in this volume reflect those concerns, and explore the ways forward. How do the best editorial procedures of the past get transmitted to the future? A distinguished line-up of experienced editors and younger scholars actively grappling with these issues reflect on their engagement with the challenges of textual theory and editorial practice. No single solution emerges as applicable to all texts and for all editions; the individual characteristics of each text and its transmission, together with the intended audience of each edition, emerge as primary areas for consideration.

About this title

About the Author

Professor Vincent Gillespie is J. R. R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. Professor Gillespie's research considers the broad range of post-Conquest writing in England, with particular interests in literary theory, religious writing, mystical language, and concepts of poetic identity in medieval and early modern writers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503536832
• ISBN 13: 9782503536835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 685
• Editor: Vincent Gillespie, Anne Hudson