The Canterbury Tales and Cladistics

Author / Editor
Cartlidge, Neil.

Title
The Canterbury Tales and Cladistics

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 102: 135-50, 2001.

Description
Cladistics-the use of large-scale computer analysis of data, including variant readings-promises the possibility of identifying patterns of textual transmission. However, the inevitability of interpretive disagreement in selecting evidence or in assessing conclusions means that present cladistic techniques cannot guarantee objective or incontestable results.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.