Copying and Conflation in Geoffrey Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe: A Stemmatic Analysis Using Phylogenetic Software
- Author / Editor
- Eagleton, Catherine, and Matthew Spencer.
Copying and Conflation in Geoffrey Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe: A Stemmatic Analysis Using Phylogenetic Software
- Published
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 37 (2006): 237-68.
- Description
- Applies a technique from evolutionary biology - phylogenetic "neighborhood-joining" - to the witnesses to the text of Astr to produce a stemma, test the fragments and sections of longer versions against the stemma, and discuss the scribal conflation of various versions in their own productions. Concludes by commenting on scribes' concern with completeness of the text.
- Contributor
- Spencer, Matthew.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.