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Studies in Stemmatology II
Stemmatology is the discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts. The object of this volume is the evaluation of the most recent methods and techniques in the field of stemmatology, as well as the development of new ones. The book is largely interdisciplinary in character: it contains contributions from scholars from classical, historical, biblical, medieval and modern language studies, as well as from mathematical and computer scientists and biologists. The contributions in the book have been divided into two sections. The first section deals with various stemmatological methods and techniques. The second section focuses more specifically on the various problems concerning textual variation.
An earlier volume on Studies in Stemmatology was published in 1996 and opened the most actual state of the art in stemmatology to a broad audience. That first volume was very well received by stemmatologists and also gave an impulse to new research, as several articles in the current volume clearly illustrate.
Both volumes are of interest to scholars in (historical) linguistics, literary studies, Bible studies, classical studies, medieval studies, and history.
[Not in series, 125] 2004. xii, 312 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 September 2006
Published online on 4 September 2006
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prologue | pp. vii–xii
- Stemmatological methods and techniques
- Parallels between stemmatology and phylogeneticsChristopher Howe, Adrian Barbrook, Linne Mooney and Peter Robinson | p. 3
- Problems of a highly contaminated tradition: the New Testament: Stemmata of variants as a source of a genealogy for witnessesGerd Mink | p. 13
- Kinds of variant in the manuscript tradition of the Greek New TestamentKlaus Wachtel | p. 87
- How shock waves revealed successive contamination: A cardiogram of early sixteenth-century printed Dutch BiblesAugust den Hollander | p. 99
- The manuscript tradition of the Cligés of Chrétien de Troyes: A stemmatological approachMargot van Mulken | p. 113
- Textual variation
- Genealogy by chance! On the significance of accidental variation (parallelisms)Ulrich Schmid | p. 127
- Constructing initial binary trees in stemmatologyEvert Wattel | p. 145
- Trouble in the trees! Variant selection and tree construction illustrated by the texts of Targum JudgesWillem F. Smelik | p. 167
- Scribal variations: When are they genealogically relevant - and when are they to be considered as instances of 'mouvance'?Lene Schøsler | p. 207
- The effects of weighting kinds of variantsMatthew Spencer, Linne Mooney, Adrian Barbrook, Barbara Bordalejo, Christopher Howe and Peter Robinson | p. 227
- Cluster analysis and the Three Level Method in the study of the Gospels in SlavonicDina Mironova | p. 241
- Different kinds of tradition in Targum Jonathan to IsaiahAlberdina Houtman | p. 269
- Valentin and Namelos discover their parentage: Narrative elements in the family tree of an international medieval taleAnnelies Roeleveld, Erika Langbroek and Evert Wattel | p. 285
- Index | pp. 305–312
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