Well-Behaved Variants Seldom Make the Apparatus: Stemmata and Apparatus in Digital Research.

Author / Editor
Bordalejo, Barbara.

Title
Well-Behaved Variants Seldom Make the Apparatus: Stemmata and Apparatus in Digital Research.

Published
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 36 pp.

Description
Describes "computer-assisted methods for the analysis of textual variation within large textual traditions," clarifying phylogenetic methods, the goal of maximum parsimony, software decisions and usage, variant management, and the crucial importance of editorial decision-making." Illustrative examples drawn from the Canterbury Tales Project.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies