A New Approach to the Witnesses and Text of the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
A New Approach to the Witnesses and Text of the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Derek Pearsall, ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (York; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, in association with Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 29-40.
- Description
- Summarizes the aims and methods of the Canterbury Tales Project, describes recent improvements in the analytic programs affiliated with the Project's data (SplitsTree rather than PAUP), and suggests ways the data may help to clarify manuscript dating, meter, and spelling.
- Alternative Title
- New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Background and General Criticism.