Producing Manuscripts and Editions

Author / Editor
Hanna, Ralph, III.

Title
Producing Manuscripts and Editions

Published
A. J. Minnis and Charlotte Brewer, eds. Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), pp. 109-30.

Description
Calls for an editing approach that attempts to replicate the contextual and intertextual aspects of manuscripts. Suggests various editions for various purposes, each sensitive to the radical differences of variants, the importance of the manuscript in which a given work exists, and the critical assumptions embedded in textual methods.

Alternative Title
Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.