How Reliable is a Stemma? An Analysis of Chaucer's Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Spencer, Matthew, Barbara Bordalejo, Peter Robinson, and Christopher J. Howe
How Reliable is a Stemma? An Analysis of Chaucer's Miller's Tale
- Published
- Literary and Linguistic Computing 18 (2003): 407-22.
- Description
- Drawing techniques from biology, the authors gauge the reliability of several aspects of textual stemmata: whether separate sections of a given text have separate histories, the quantity of text necessary for a reliable stemma, the levels of agreement between individual variants and the best stemma, and which features of a given stemma are most reliable. Examines e-texts of MilT.
- Contributor
- Bordalejo, Barbara.
- Robinson, Peter.
- Howe, Christopher J.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Miller and His Tale.