Masters and Commanders: Considering the Concept of the Edited Text.

Author / Editor
Koster, Josephine.

Title
Masters and Commanders: Considering the Concept of the Edited Text.

Published
Textual Cultures 9.2 (2015): 19-26.

Description
Questions the concept of a "standard edition" in the postmodern world of textual editing and uses the controversy about Adam Pinkhurst (Was he Chaucer's scribe cited in Adam?) as evidence that "medievalists really seek editorial closure," despite insufficient, open-ended, or ambiguous data.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Adam Scriveyn