Studies in stemmatology

Studies in stemmatology / edited by Pieter van Reenen ; Margot van Mulken ; with the assistance of Janet Dyk.

This volume contains ten papers selected from among those presented at the annual Free University Stemmatological Colloquia 1990-93. Current issues in (automated) stemmatology, paleography and codicology are addressed from contemporary theoretical perspectives. All papers focus on new directions in...

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Main Author: Reenen, Pieter Th. van
Other Authors: Mulken, Margot van, Dyk, J. W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1996.
Subjects:
Manuscripts.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Transmission of texts.
manuscripts (documents)
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES > General.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts, Medieval
Transmission of texts
Textgeschichte
Textkritik
Intertekstualiteit.
Tekstvarianten.
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Table of Contents:
  • STUDIES IN STEMMATOLOGY; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Prologue; State of the Art; Computational Analysis; LachmannRevisited?; Graphs and Trees; Auxiliary Disciplines to a Preliminary Discipline?; Methods put into Practice; Conclusion; PART I. Methodological Approaches; Ciadistics or the Resurrection of the Method of Lachmann; 0. Introduction and Summary; 1. Theoretical Text-Genealogical Insights; 1.1. The four basic text-genealogical rules; 1.1.1. The determination of genealogical variants: the first rule; 1.1.2. The presentation of the used variants: the second rule.
  • 1.1.3. The width of the place of variation: the third rule1.1.4. The use of type-2 variations: the fourth rule; 1.1.5. The implications of the four genealogical rules shown by an example; 1.2. Can genealogical variants be recognised with the aid of the computer?; 1.2.1. The second ad hoc rule on text-genealogical significant word types: words in rhyming position, verbs and substantives; 1.2.2. Eleven characteristics of genealogical variants; 2. The 'Lanseloet' Genealogical Software applied to the Yvain Texts; 2.1. Description of the 'Lanseloet' genealogical software to find type-2 variations.
  • 2.2. The application of the 'Lanseloet' software to the Yvain texts2.3. The impossibility of building the Yvain chain from type-2 formulas; 3. Application of PAUP to the Yvain Text Versions; 3.1. Systematics and text genealogy; 3.3. Cladistics and the principle of parsimony; 3.4. PAUP-3; 3.5. Running PAUP-3 with the selected genealogical variants; 3.6. Comparing the PAUP trees with the Yvain stemma of Micha; 3.7. Short evaluation of using PAUP and cladistics for text-genealogical matters; 4. Final Remarks and Perspectives; References.
  • APPENDIX A: ATranslation of Part of Salemans (1989) on ParallelismsAPPENDIX B: Criticism of Dees et al 1988-89 (an Addendum to ʹ1.1.5); APPENDIX C: Variation Formulas and Original Verses (see fig. 4); APPENDIX D: A Translation of Parts of Salemans (1987) on Ciadistics; 1. Introduction; 3. Biological genealogical research: classification, taxonomy, phylogenetics and cladistics; 3.1. Building blocks of relationship structures: characters and character states; 3.2. An intermediate balance: the significance for cladistic textual criticism.
  • 3.3. The Wagner network algorithm: the structure of a cladogram3.3.1. Building Wagner networks with distances between character states; 3.3.2. Example of working with the Wagner network algorithm; 3.3.3. Rooting ('orienting') the Wagner network ('chain') into a c ladogram ('stemma; 3.3.4. The length of a Wagner network: criterion for reliability and guard againstcontamination and parallelism; Computer-Assisted Stemmatic Analysis and 'Best-Text' Historical Editing; 1. New tools of computer-assisted stemmatics: transcription, collation, analysis; 2. The use of these methods: their success.

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