G:听Paleography and editorial techniques (Prof Louise Haywood and Dr Mary Franklin-Brown)
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Recommended introductory reading:
McGann, Jerome, The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Methods and Theory (Oxford: Clarendon, 1985), Part 2 ch 1, 鈥楾he Monks and the Giants: Textual and Bibliographical Studies and the Interpretation of Literary Works鈥� [e-book through iDiscover]
Cavallo, Guglielmo, and Roger Chartier, A History of Reading in the West, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane (Oxford: Polity Press, 1999) ***Highly recommended!*** The Introduction [pdf] is particularly helpful.
Chartier, Roger, Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)
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...or other books by
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Roger Chartier, such as The Order of Books or Forms and Meanings.
Cerquiglini, Bernard, In Praise of the Variant: A Critical History of Philology, translated by Betsy Wing (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
Busby, Keith, ed., Toward a Synthesis? Essays on the New Philology (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993)
Asa Briggs and Peter Burke, A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet (海角社区: Polity, 2005), first two chapters.
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Session 1: Introduction to medieval and early modern manuscripts
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Suzanne Paul & James Freeman
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This session will take place at the University Library.
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In this session, students will encounter a range of medieval and early modern vernacular manuscripts from the University Library collection, as far as possible tailored to their research interests. Topics covered will include:
- how manuscripts were made and used
- a brief introduction to codicology
- some guidance on what to look for when looking at manuscripts
- the similarities and differences between manuscripts and printed books
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Recommended reading:
Clemens, Raymond, and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007).
De Hamel, Christopher, Scribes and Illuminators, Medieval Craftsmen (London:听 British Museum Press, 1992)
A selection of digitised manuscripts, to compare and contrast:
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Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun,听Roman de la Rose:听
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Dante Alighieri,听Divina Commedia:
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Wolfram von Eschenbach,听Parzival:
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Poetry in Castilian:
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Multilingual manuscripts:
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Session 2: Transcription and editing of medieval texts
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Prof Louise Haywood and Dr Mary Franklin-Brown
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This session will give a brief overview of the development of medieval scripts, but most of the session will be devoted to a collaborative workshop in which students transcribe a passage from a medieval French and/or Italian text.
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Recommended reading:听
Brown, Michelle P.,听A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600听(London:听听British Library, 1993)
Clemens, Raymond and Timothy Graham,听Introduction to Manuscript Studies听(Ithaca and London:听听Cornell University Press, 2007)
De Hamel, Christopher,听Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts听(London: Allen Lane, 2016)
Derolez, Albert,听The Pal忙ography of听Gothic听Manuscript Books, from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century听(海角社区:听听CUP, 2003)
Foulet, Alfred and Speer, Mary Blakely,听On Editing Old French Texts听(Lawrence:听听Regents Press of Kansas, 1979), ch 1, 鈥楢n Historical Orientation鈥� [pdf]
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A useful tool for this session is:
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Cappelli, Adriano, Dizionario di Abbreviature latine ed italiane. Usate nelle carte e codici specialmente del medioevo (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1929). Also available online here:
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Session 3: Editing texts: introduction to textual criticism
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Rodrigo Cacho
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This session will offer a general introduction on textual criticism, focusing both on its theoretical background and the different methodologies available for editing a Medieval or Early Modern text. There will be an introduction to the two stages of a critical edition (recensio,听constitutio听textus), the principles for the presentation of texts, the construction of a critical apparatus and the opposition between old spelling and modernization. We will also look at a case study of French printed material of the sixteenth century.
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Editing Texts. Recommended reading:
L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson, 鈥楾extual Criticism鈥�, in听Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature听(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991, 3rd听ed.), pp. 207-241.
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William P. Williams and Craig S. Abbott, 鈥楥ritical Editing鈥�, in听An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies听(New York: MLA, 1999, 3rd ed.), pp. 75-85.
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Editing Texts. Further reading:
David C. Greetham,听Textual Scholarship: An Introduction, New York and London: Garland, 1994 (Chapter 9 鈥楨diting the Text: Scholarly Editing鈥�, pp. 347-72)
Michael Hunter,听Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice听(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
E. J. Kenney,听The Classical Text: Aspects of Editing in the Age of the Printed Book听(Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1974)
Christopher Kleinhenz (ed.),听Medieval Manuscripts and Textual Criticism听(Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 1976)
Paul Maas,听Textual Criticism听(Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1958).
G. Thomas Tanselle,听Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing听(Charlottesville-London: University Press of Virginia, 1990)
James Thorpe,听Principles of Textual Criticism听(San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, 1972)
Paolo Trovato,听Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Lachmann鈥檚 Method: A Non-standard Handbook of Genealogical Textual Criticism in the Age of Post-Structuralism, Cladistics, and Copy-Text, Padova: Libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni, 2014.
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For those with a familiarity with Italian, see:
Stoppelli, Pasquale (ed.),听Filologia dei testi a stampa听(Cagliari: CUEC, 2008)
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Session 4:听Writing and printing in pre-modern Europe and Book Design
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Rodrigo Cacho & Emma Gilby
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If possible, this session will take place at the University Library
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This session will outline the role of the printing press in the development of literary culture in early modern Europe. It will probe the differences between different book formats, asking how the advent of print changed book production and the relationship of readers, writers, and editors to the book. In particular, it will consider the role of paratexts in early modern printed books and how these reflected authorial strategies, as well as the role they played in literary theory and literary quarrels in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Students will be encouraged to engage actively in discussion of relevant issues during the session, and are strongly advised to do some preparatory reading, making their own selection from among the texts suggested below.
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In the first part of the seminar we will visit the Historic Printing Room (UL). In the second part, we will look at some manuscripts and early printed books.
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Recommended reading:
Asa Briggs and Peter Burke,听A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet听(海角社区: Polity, 2005), first two chapters.
G茅rard Genette,听Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation听(海角社区/New York: 海角社区 University Press, 1997), introduction and chapter 8.
Helen Smith and Louise Wilson (eds.),听Renaissance Paratexts听(海角社区: 海角社区 University Press, 2011), especially the introduction.
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Further reading:
Andrew Pettegree,听The Book in the Renaissance听(New Haven, Conn and London: Yale University Press, 2010)
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein,听The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, 2 vols (海角社区: 海角社区 University Press, 1979)
Ignacio Garc铆a Aguilar,听Poes铆a y edici贸n en el Siglo de Oro听(Madrid: Calambur, 2009)
Brian Richardson,听Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600听(海角社区: 海角社区 University Press, 1994)
Brian Richardson,听Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy听(海角社区: 海角社区 University Press, 1999)
Brian Richardson,听Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Italy听(海角社区: 海角社区 University Press, 2009)
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