IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1132: Textual Borders: Applying Textual Criticism to the Variance of Medieval Literary Works
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Matteo Salaroli, Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Filologici e Linguistici, Università degli Studi di Milano |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Irene Malfatto, John Carter Brown Library, Rhode Island |
| Paper 1132-a | On the Border between the Regula pastoralis and the Epistola synodica: Gregory the Great's Textual Workshop (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1132-b | Matters of Textual Ontology: Notker's Gesta Karoli and the Line between Direct and Indirect Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1132-c | Cultural Variants in King Horn (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities |
| Abstract | In the Middle Ages the concept of authorship varied considerably in comparison to modern standards; an author could reshape his / her own work several times and release it with several changes, thus creating various versions of the same text. Moreover, the process of copying could be characterised not only by mechanical errors, but also by voluntary innovations: copyists and subsequent readers might decide to intervene on the text as well, to such an extent that their alterations would sometimes make it hardly recognisable. Through the analysis of some specific cases, this session explores the issues related to such instability, focusing on the application of textual criticism to blurring textual boundaries. |