A Guide to Editing Middle English

McCarren, Vincent P.; Moffat, Douglas

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Some philological implications of punctuation in editions of Middle English texts

Nedelius

2024

Keys to the History of English

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This study investigates the use of editions with modernised punctuation for linguistic enquiries. While previous studies have highlighted potential qualitative issues with using such editions, this study provides a quantitative analysis in order to give insight into how often editions with modernised punctuation tend to deviate from their manuscript’s punctuation. By doing so, this study provides further insight into how frequently the use of such editions may potentially lead the linguistic scholar astray. This study reveals that a high proportion of the punctuation marks encountered in the studied editions have no corresponding mark in the manuscript, ultimately concluding that the use of such editions may have an impact on the current understanding of Middle English syntax and text interpretation.

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Some philological implications of punctuation in editions of Middle English texts

Nedelius

2024

Keys to the History of English

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Teresa Marqués-Aguado, review of Laura Esteban-Segura.System of physic (GUL MS Hunter 509, ff. 1r–167v). A compendium of mediaeval medicine including the Middle English Gilbertus Anglicus(Late Middle English Texts Series 3). Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt, New York, Oxford,Wien: Peter Lang. 2012. ISBN 978-3-0343-0077-3. 461 pp

Marqués-Aguado

2014

Studia Neophilologica

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The Textual Criticism of Middle English Manuscript Traditions: A Survey of Critical Issues in the Interpretation of Textual Data

Cole¹

2009

Literature Compass

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This essay is intended to survey two broad issues which determine the use of textual data. The first is the underlying orientation towards the use of textual data and how this relates to critical evaluations of agency, authority and materiality. This essay surveys two broad orientations: (i) an essentially retrospective genetic orientation and, (ii) an orientation which focuses on the phenomenon of change. Both approaches are dependent on the ability to distinguish original readings from scribal readings, identify genetic relationships and account for acts of horizontal transmission. With this in mind, the second issue with which this essay is concerned is the importance of critical interpretation in the categorisation of textual data. This essay argues that textual criticism is a practical demonstration of the difficulties of interpretation and that no textual data ‘has any real evidential value until it has been interpreted’ (Patterson 90).

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A Guide to Editing Middle English

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Some philological implications of punctuation in editions of Middle English texts

Some philological implications of punctuation in editions of Middle English texts

The Textual Criticism of Middle English Manuscript Traditions: A Survey of Critical Issues in the Interpretation of Textual Data

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